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Canadian Pacific to the East The International of Maine Division Omer Lavallee
Canadian Pacific to the East The International of Maine Division Omer Lavallee
Canadian Pacific to the East
The International of Maine Division
Omer Lavallee C. M.
Hard Cover Dust Jacket
336 Pages
Copyright 2007
Contents
List of Figures 4
Foreword 5
Author's Preface 7
Editor's Foreword and Acknowledgements 8
Gallery 1: International of Maine potpourri 13
Chapter 1: In the Beginning 21
Chapter 2: The European & North American Railway (Maine) 27
Gallery 2: Early History and Pioneer Views of the Short Line in Maine 36
Chapter 3: The European & North American Railway (New Brunswick) 62
Chapter 4: The International Railway of Canada 69
Gallery 3: The Megantic Subdivision 77
Chapter 5: Assembling the Components 103
Chapter 6: Building the International of Maine 107
Colour Gallery 113
Chapter 7: The Inauguration of the Short Line 161
Gallery 4: The Moosehead Subdivision 166
Chapter 8: Into the Twentieth Century 204
Gallery 5: Brownville Junction 214
Chapter 9: The Great War and Depression 233
Gallery 6: East to McAdam Junction 239
Chapter 10: The Short Line in Transition (1945-1970) 251
Gallery 7: Steam Locomotive Power on the Short Line 258
Chapter 11: Attaining the Century Mark (1970-1988) 268
Chapter 12: The Canadian Atlantic Railway 272
Gallery 8: Men of the Road 290
The Author's Afterword 276
The Author's Acknowledgements 277
Appendix A: Other Northern Maine
Railroads 279
Appendix B: Mileage Table and
Glossary of Location Names282
Appendix C: The Charles H. Small
Memoir 287
Appendix D: Connecting Logging Railways
in Maine 305
Appendix E: Locomotive Assignments and Related Data/Comparative Freight and
Passenger Statistics 308
Appendix F: Locomotive Rosters 312
Appendix G: The Railway Post Office (R.P.O.) 315
Endnotes 321
Chronological Index 326
Additional Biography and Further Reading 329
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 330
Index 333
The "International of Maine" section of the MontrealSaint John "Short Line" of the Canadian Pacific Railway became a part of my railway experience in July 1945. Then a 19-year-old clerk in the Paymaster's office of the CPR's Treasury department, and almost three years into a subsequent 44-year career with that company, I accepted an opportunity to work as relieving payroll clerk on the CPR's Brownville Division pay car.
Thereafter, in the course of about one hundred trips spanning 15 years, I gained an intimate knowledge of train operations on the International of Maine, reinforced by my attendance at the late Percy Raines' train rules classes that gave me an in-depth professional understanding and
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