August 28th, 2007
Tuesday morning we woke up at our hotel in Hagerstown and, determined not to duplicate the previous day's failure to get anything went to what seemed like a safe shortline to catch something. We travelled across the mountains on secondary highways to Union Bridge, the home of the Maryland Midland, and found the yard inaccessible with no sign of life. After a few minutes driving around we were pleasantly surprised to see serviceable tracks up a street to a local industry, and upon cursory inspection found a locomotive switching inside. Overjoyed, we travelled back down the hill and set up to wait for the train to come out of the industry and head back to its yard. Within minutes, the lone GP9 popped out of the facility... and backed back into it. After two hours of playing hide-and-seek with a train that had no obvious intention of leaving and with no decent shots we headed back south, following the Maryland Midland tracks southward. We periodically checked backroad crossings to see the state of the tracks in a vain attempt to get ahead of any train that may have been running and were baffled to find the tracks grown in and abandoned one crossing after finding them shiny. We determined that the line ended in a gravel pit and was abandoned beyond it. Somewhere on this exploration our scanner antenna disappeared from its mounting on our roof, although curiously our scanner continues to function reasonably well without anything but the base. From there we went on to the Brunswick MARC station and sat there with a friend from the area we had travelled there to meet until it was time to go toward Washington, DC for dinner.
Brunswick, Maryland
Brunswick is a large CSX yard at the end of the MARC Brunswick line out of Washington, DC to the north-west.
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A CSX rack train heads west out of Brunswick as a manifest train enters the yard on the other side of the parking lot.
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A MARC train pulls to a stop at Brunswick station, reversing back toward DC and allowing a freight train to finally leave Brunswick as yet another freight leaves from the other side of the lot.
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CSXT 7509 leads a westbound out of Brunswick.
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A MARC train performs its station stop at the end of the Brunswick line.
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The Amtrak Capitol Limited darts through Brunswick MARC station.
August 10th, 2016
On our way from Summerside, PEI to Hopewell rocks in New Brunswick, we stopped at the Hillsboro New Brunswick Railway museum for a quick tour.
Hillsboro, New Brunswick
Hillsboro is the home of the New Brunswick Railway Museum, not far from Hopewell Rocks.
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As part of admission to the New Brunswick Railway museum in Hillsboro, you can get a ride on a wagon towed by a speeder.
August 11th, 2016
We started our day in Saint John, NB by seeing what was up at the New Brunswick Southern yard. It did not disappoint.
Saint John, New Brunswick
On the north side of the Bay of Fundy, Saint John is the junction of the Canadian National and the New Brunswick Southern.
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New Brunswick Southern leaves Saint John for Maine (second camera angle).
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New Brunswick Southern leaves Saint John yard for the state of Maine.
May 18th, 2018
Took Via #15 from Halifax to Montreal.
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is on the north-eastern tip of the Bay of Fundy near the Nova Scotia border along the CN.
Dorchester, New Brunswick
Dorchester is south of Moncton along the CN.
Moncton, New Brunswick
(map) Moncton is the largest city in New Brunswick and has a significant CN yard, where the transfer to the NBSR at Saint John originates.
Miramichi, New Brunswick
Miramichi is on the east coast of New Brunswick along the CN.
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Took Via #15 from Halifax to Montreal; passing a TankTrain in New Brunswick.
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst is on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in northern New Brunswick.
April 21st, 2019
We stopped to see what was happening at Moncton CN yard, finding the NBSR transfer departing for Saint John.
Moncton, New Brunswick
(map) Moncton is the largest city in New Brunswick and has a significant CN yard, where the transfer to the NBSR at Saint John originates.
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A westbound manifest freight leaves Moncton yard.
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A local works in Moncton yard.
April 23rd, 2019
As we were leaving the Reversing Falls, we spotted an NBSR local working in the nearby Irving plant.
Saint John, New Brunswick
On the north side of the Bay of Fundy, Saint John is the junction of the Canadian National and the New Brunswick Southern.
April 24th, 2019
We started our day in Moncton, catching an unexpected double-ended train on the bridge at the Reversing Falls as we wrapped up lunch, missing what would have been an excellent bridge shot. We finished our day in Campbellton, hearing the incessant squawk of an EOT, which we found attached to five cars near the Via station with no sign of the train they were meant to be attached to. They were gone the next morning.
Campbellton, New Brunswick
(map) Campbellton is at the mouth of the Baie des Chaleurs on the New Brunswick-Quebec border.
