Locale New York and Quebec | ||
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Dates of operation 1881 (1881)–1971 (1971) Successor Delaware and Hudson Railway Track gauge 4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) | ||
Created by the Delaware & Hudson Railway (D&H) in 1881, the Napiervile Junction Railway (NJR) was the D&H subsidiary in Canada. Its job was to build the easiest and fastest line with has minimal grades as possible. It had the main line from Rouses Point, NY, to Delson Jct, QC, now Delson, QC, this end of the railway left access to Canadian Pacific Railway's (CPR) mainline onto the bridge into Montreal. On the end of Rouses Point, NY, the railway continued onto the D&H's mainline, now CPR's Adirondack Subdivision.
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Operation
The Napierville Junction Railway had two ALCO locomotives and 4 cabooses which served to pull consists from Upper New York State to Montreal, QC. As for clearing the train crew through customs and passengers, the Lacolle railway station in Lacolle, Quebec, (7 miles from the NY state border) served as the stop for the NJR. From customs to maintenance this was the NJR's operating office, which then led to the Delaware and Hudson headquarters in Albany, NY. In 1971, the NJR's days where numbered when the D&H merged the NJR back into one entity. This continued to operate like this until the early 1990s when the D&H was bought and merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway thus turning the Rouses Point to Delson line into Canadian Pacific's Lacolle Sub.
Today
Today very few traces of the Napierville Junction Railway still exist such as one of their brown cabooses (still intact) in Mooers, New York. Their locomotives were repainted as D&H in the 1970s.