Matapédia to Moncton
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This video shows freight and passenger trains in action between 2000 and 2005 on the Quebec Railway Corporation's lines between Matapédia and Moncton including the very scenic line along the Bay of Chaleur to Gaspé.

NBEC & VIA at Campbellton

The Chemin de Fer de la Matapédia et du Golfe (CFMG) and New Brunswick East Coast Rail operate rebuilt SD-40s (ex CN), C-424s (ex CP) and chop-nosed RS-18s (also ex CP). One RS-18 has been rebuilt and extensively upgraded by IRSI in Moncton. Units are lettered CFMG, NBEC, ERS or QRC.

Here we see NBEC Alcos (ex CP) 1840 (RS-18u) & 4230 (C-424) shunting in the Miramachi yards 3 September 2002.

VIA Rail 's Chaleur runs three days per week overnight from Montreal to Gaspé where it arrives about midday. At Gaspé it is turned, serviced and about 2 hours later leaves for Montreal. The journey is very picturesque and many of the bridges and trestles now have 5 mph speed restrictions permitting good views of the river valleys and of the sea.

Here the westbound Chaleur approaches Caplan as the sun sets on 31 August 2002.

VIA Rail's Ocean runs six days per week from Montreal to Halifax. It leaves Montreal in the evening (often the Chaleur is combined with it) and arrives in Halifax in the late afternoon. It leaves Halifax the next day about midday. Three sets of equipment are used to operate this train and by 2005 two were Renaissance coaches and one was Budd Stainless Steel cars. Both types of trains are seen.

Views from the dome cars on both the Chaleur and the Ocean are included The trains are seen in Spring, Summer and Fall.