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 #118306  by Jason W
 
Whatever became of the Napierville Junction Railway? According to a map I recently saw the D&H ends at the border, Montreal no longer being the northern terminus. Did CP absorb the NJ into itself at the time of the purchase of the D&H? Does this have something to do with cross border politics? Any replies appreciated.
 #118436  by ChiefTroll
 
The Napierville Junction Railway was always a separate corporation. The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation (later - 1968 - Delaware and Hudson Railway Company) was the majority stockholder. The northern terminus of the D&H was the international border at Rouses Point. The maps showing Montreal were only for advertising the through service on CP and NJ.

Freight and passenger traffic moving on the NJ was counted as NJ revenue. NJ reimabursed D&H for operating passenger trains on its railway. NJ also held the trackage rights agreement on CP to Windsor Station and St. Luc. NJ paid CP a proportion of the operating expenses of Windsor Station based on the number of trains operated in and out of the terminal. In later years that terminal expense grew as CP passenger traffic dropped off.

NJ handled its freight traffic with its own crews, and while they still existed, mostly its own power (4050 and 4051). Originally, that traffic was interchanged with CP at Delson Jct., but later CP and NJ agreed to permit NJ crews to operate into St. Luc. The official interchange remained at Delson Jct. When per diem was figured from midnight to midnight, the official time for interchange was when the NJ's headlight passed the northward home signal at Delson Jct. That made for some interesting trips on NJ Train 105, whose sole purpose was making per diem at Delson with the empties from WR-1.

When CP acquired the D&H, they also acquired the D&H's interest in the NJ. I don't know if the NJ remains a separate corporation in Canada, but any corporate merger between NJ and CP is strictly a Canadian issue. CP is pretty much free to do what they wish with the NJ, subject to Canadian regulation.