|
Passenger
|
Freight
|
Mixed
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1944-1957
|
Matepedia -Gaspe (daily)
35/36
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Matapedia-New Carlisle
(daily)
510/511
512/513
516/517
544/545
New Carlisle-Gaspe
(daily)
502-503
504-505
508-509
546-547
Matapedia-Gaspe
(Monday-Saturday)
201-202
|
No records
|
1957-1960
|
Matapedia-Gaspe (Monday-Saturday)
35/36
Matapedia-Gaspe (Sundays)
71/72
|
same as above
|
Matapedia-Gaspe
(Monday-Saturday)
101-102
|
1960-1970
|
118/119 (daily) between Matapedia-Gaspe
621/622 (daily) between Montreal-Gaspe
630/631 (daily) between Matapedia-Gaspe
-used railliners
-"Sputnik"
|
Matapedia-New Carlisle
(Monday-Saturday)
910-911
912-913
New Carlisle-Gaspe
(Monday-Saturday)
902-903
Matapedia-Gaspe
(Monday-Saturday)
747-748
|
None
|
1970-1983
|
-same as above
-sometime in this period 630/631 was dropped
|
-same as above
-sometime in
this period 747-748 was dropped
-towards 1980, all freights renumbered to 594/595
|
None
|
1983-1998
|
621/622 became 16/17 (Montreal-Gaspe)
“The Chaleur”
-originally ran daily, but was cut to six days by 1998, later to the current three
|
594/595 (daily) ran from Campbellton, NB-Gaspe
|
None
|
This information is accurate to the best of my knowledge. It's simply amazing for a line of 202.4 miles to have five separate freights daily. They really were busy up until the late 1970's it seems. It should be noted that the Cascapedia Subdivision is 98 miles long, running between Matapedia and New Carlisle and the Chandler Subdivision is 102.4 miles long, stretching from New Carlisle to Gaspe. During the 1980's until 1998, it was rare for a freight to travel past Chandler more than once a month or so. At that time copper ore from Murdochville was loaded into 40' boxcars at Sandy Beach (Gaspe) and the main shippers were by far Gaspesia Paper in Chandler and Smurfit Stone in New Richmond.
Now all I have to do is determine things like times, common consists, commodities hauled and so fourth between 1970 and 1980, which is the specific period I would like to model.
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