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  • Gypsum Shipments Started Again

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Discussion relating to the Canadian National, past and present. Also includes discussion of Illinois Central and Grand Trunk Western and other subsidiary roads (including Bessemer & Lake Erie and the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway). Official site: WWW.CN.CA

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 #14755  by INTERMODAL
 
CN has started once again to haul gypsum rock out of Milford,Nova Scotia to St.John,NB.,where it is then haul by the NB Southern Railway to McAdam,NB..
 #26321  by Dieter
 
If the gypsum is going that way, it's going into the US. Is it crossing "The Vacationland" to Quebec on the old Canadian Pacific, or is it taking a turn south?

Is any of this traffic going the other way, up NBEC?

Dieter.
 #26325  by INTERMODAL
 
The gypsum rock is being unloaded at McAdam New Brunswick.And is made into final product of sheetrock.The sheetrock is then ship out on bulkhead flatcars to all major points in Canada and the US..