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Catenary Through The Counties Montreal & Southern Counties Railway w/ dust jack
Catenary Through The Counties Montreal & Southern Counties Railway By Anthony Clegg & Omer Lavallee
Hard Cover with dust jacket (has some damage - see photos)
Copyright ? A railfare reprint
64 Pages
Heavy wooden suburban trams, all-metal interurban speedsters, combines, lightweights, and five-car trains - you could see them all within the hour on Mill Street, Montreal, or across the St. Lawrence River at St. Lambert, Que., between the years 1909 and 1956. Such was the variety of passenger equipment operated by the electrified Montreal and Southern Counties Railway between the Canadian metropolis and the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway was the Canadian National Railways' subsidiary which provided local and interurban transit services on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River south and east of Montreal, as well as an additional rail link over the Victoria Bridge across the mile-wide St. Lawrence River.
The opening of the Montreal-St. Lambert link across the St. Lawrence was celebrated on October 30th, 1909 with all the pomp and ceremony associated with such events of regional importance.
Construction crews completed the line as far as Granby by 1916, and the first through passenger run was made on April 29th of that year.
For the next third of a century, the Southern Counties plodded along, leading a useful but unspectacular existence. Then, in 1931. after the opening of the Montreal Harbour Bridge, service on the suburban line between Montreal South and Longueuil was discontinued in 1931, while the summer-only service to the St. Lambert Country Club was abandoned during the same era.
The fast major cut-back in M. & S.C. service occurred in 1951 when the parent Canadian National Railways replaced the electric trams between Marieville and Granby with regular diesel-hauled trains. Then, in 1955, it was announced that Victoria Bridge would be rebuilt to accommodate one of the major locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Montreal and Southern Counties was the victim. The last tram crossed the River on Sunday, June 19th.
For another sixteen months local services were maintained on the South Shore, but all M. & S.C. operations came to a halt in October, 1956. Shortly after midnight, October 13th, car No. 101 wrote "The End" to the local passenger service in St. Lambert and the M. & S.C. was no more.
Fortunately, this chapter in Canadian transportation history has been preserved for your reading pleasure by authors Anthony Clegg and Omer Lavall. "Catenary through the Counties" captures, in text and fascinating photos, some of the details of one of Canada's outstanding electric interurbans - the Montreal & Southern Counties Railway.
Illustrations include route maps, several diagrams and reproductions of timetables, tickets and transfers. A complete roster listing of the line's rolling stock is also featured.
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