Alburgh – Noyan Junction railway line

Alburgh VT– Noyan Junction QC, as of 2010
Route length:	10 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Burlington 0 Alburgh VT Ogdensburg – Maquam line Essex Junction – Rouses Point route to Rouses Point 4th Loading Station Vermont ( USA ) / Québec ( Canada ) Connection to Saint-Hyacinthe from East Alburgh of Saint-Hyacinthe 10 Noyan Junction QC to Ottawa

The railway Alburgh-Noyan Junction is a former railway Vermont ( United States ) and Quebec ( Canada ). It is ten kilometers long and connected the city of Alburgh with two rail lines in Canada. The line is closed and dismantled.

history

The route was put into operation by the Rutland Railroad on January 7, 1901 as a branch of the Burlington – Rouses Point railway, which was also opened on that day . In Alburgh, some of the express trains from Boston and New York were uncoupled and drove over the route to Noyan Junction, where they were handed over as through cars to the Quebec, Montreal and Southern Railway in the direction of Montreal or to the Canada Atlantic Railway in the direction of Ottawa.

From 1918 the through cars in Rouses Point were handed over to the two railway companies and thus passenger traffic on the route was stopped. In 1934 the section in Canada was closed, and around 1941 the remaining section from Alburgh to the border followed.

Route description

The line began in a triangular track north of Alburgh station. It leads straight north. Immediately before the border there was a loading point where agricultural goods were loaded. , However, disappeared on the Canadian side by agricultural use of former railway land almost without a trace, the railway line, which is still visible on the US side, leads straight to the north and strikes southwest of the village Noyan on the railroad Ottawa East Alburgh , in the it joins here. To the line from Saint-Hyacinthe, which also joins here, there was a track connection, over which passing freight trains were driven. Passenger trains, even if they were handed over as through cars to the QMR, which operated the route to St. Hyacinthe, were shunted in Noyan Junction, as they mostly also carried through cars to Ottawa.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 2010.

literature

• Robert C. Jones: Railroads of Vermont, Volume II. New England Press Inc., Shelburne, VT 1993. ISBN 978-1-881535-02-7 .
• Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .
• Jim Shaughnessy: The Rutland Road. (2nd edition) Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1997, ISBN 0-8156-0469-6 .