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More CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision
North of Mount-Tremblant is Labelle at mile 80.2 Ste.Agathe Subdivision ( 105.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor)
Serviced six times per week by CP Rail Dayliner passenger trains (CP Rail's term for R.D.C.'s or Budd Car's),
#164 (Tue Thur)
#167 (M W F)
#172 (Sun)
Last VIA Rail Budd's November 1981.
From '85 to '87 inclusive Labelle generated two freight car loads
Same time period Mount Laurier at mile 138.2 ( 163.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor ) generated 38 freight car loads
Hydro Quebec was a strong objector at the CTC abandonment hearings.
“Hydro Quebec opposed the abandonment as it considers rail to be the only effective method of transporting its large, heavy equipment to Hydro Quebec stations served by the Ste. Agathe Subdivision.
...the Quebec Ministry of Transport refused Hydro Quebec's request to transport by road the transformers from the Grand-Brûlé Substation. The transformers weigh 107,000 kg each. There are 6 transformers in total with 2 transformers currently being repaired at the maintenance facility at Varennes, Quebec. One transformer will be returned to Grand-Brûlé [substation located near Mount-Tremblant ] in December 1989 and the second transformer will be returned at the beginning of 1990. The remaining four transformers will be transported to the repair facility in 1990, 1991 and 1992.” (source: CTC Hearings documents at the abandonment application)
The CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision from Ste. Agathe mile 44.4 northward officially abandoned December 1989 ( Ste Therese mile zero )
Kodak Ektachrome slide, on a very cold late December 1976 afternoon at Labelle P.Q. by S.Danko
More Ste.Agathe Subdivision
Petitt Train du Nord circa 1979
St. Faustin
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![More CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision
North of Mount-Tremblant is Labelle at mile 80.2 Ste.Agathe Subdivision ( 105.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor)
Serviced six times per week by CP Rail Dayliner passenger trains (CP Rail's term for R.D.C.'s or Budd Car's),
#164 (Tue Thur)
#167 (M W F)
#172 (Sun)
Last VIA Rail Budd's November 1981.
From '85 to '87 inclusive Labelle generated two freight car loads
Same time period Mount Laurier at mile 138.2 ( 163.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor ) generated 38 freight car loads
Hydro Quebec was a strong objector at the CTC abandonment hearings.
“Hydro Quebec opposed the abandonment as it considers rail to be the only effective method of transporting its large, heavy equipment to Hydro Quebec stations served by the Ste. Agathe Subdivision.
...the Quebec Ministry of Transport refused Hydro Quebec's request to transport by road the transformers from the Grand-Brûlé Substation. The transformers weigh 107,000 kg each. There are 6 transformers in total with 2 transformers currently being repaired at the maintenance facility at Varennes, Quebec. One transformer will be returned to Grand-Brûlé [substation located near Mount-Tremblant ] in December 1989 and the second transformer will be returned at the beginning of 1990. The remaining four transformers will be transported to the repair facility in 1990, 1991 and 1992.” (source: CTC Hearings documents at the abandonment application)
The CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision from Ste. Agathe mile 44.4 northward officially abandoned December 1989 ( Ste Therese mile zero )
Kodak Ektachrome slide, on a very cold late December 1976 afternoon at Labelle P.Q. by S.Danko
More Ste.Agathe Subdivision
Petitt Train du Nord circa 1979
St. Faustin
sdfourty](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/img019-LaBelle-PQ-Dec-76-1280x718.jpg "More CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision
North of Mount-Tremblant is Labelle at mile 80.2 Ste.Agathe Subdivision ( 105.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor)
Serviced six times per week by CP Rail Dayliner passenger trains (CP Rail's term for R.D.C.'s or Budd Car's),
#164 (Tue Thur)
#167 (M W F)
#172 (Sun)
Last VIA Rail Budd's November 1981.
From '85 to '87 inclusive Labelle generated two freight car loads
Same time period Mount Laurier at mile 138.2 ( 163.8 rail miles from Gare Windsor ) generated 38 freight car loads
Hydro Quebec was a strong objector at the CTC abandonment hearings.
“Hydro Quebec opposed the abandonment as it considers rail to be the only effective method of transporting its large, heavy equipment to Hydro Quebec stations served by the Ste. Agathe Subdivision.
...the Quebec Ministry of Transport refused Hydro Quebec's request to transport by road the transformers from the Grand-Brûlé Substation. The transformers weigh 107,000 kg each. There are 6 transformers in total with 2 transformers currently being repaired at the maintenance facility at Varennes, Quebec. One transformer will be returned to Grand-Brûlé [substation located near Mount-Tremblant ] in December 1989 and the second transformer will be returned at the beginning of 1990. The remaining four transformers will be transported to the repair facility in 1990, 1991 and 1992.” (source: CTC Hearings documents at the abandonment application)
The CP Rail Ste. Agathe Subdivision from Ste. Agathe mile 44.4 northward officially abandoned December 1989 ( Ste Therese mile zero )
Kodak Ektachrome slide, on a very cold late December 1976 afternoon at Labelle P.Q. by S.Danko
More Ste.Agathe Subdivision
Petitt Train du Nord circa 1979
St. Faustin
sdfourty")
Can you imagine the cost of heating an old drafty place like this? It is a shame so many of these stations are gone, but it would be much to expensive just to make a home out of most of them.
Actually, I believe this station is still standing. At least it was when I was up that way in 2012. Unfortunately I seem to have forgotten to take a picture of it.
The ROW is now a multi-use trail and many of the stations have been preserved in situ as various businesses.