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Caption: If you like shots where you can see the whole train, this one's for you! With the loss of woodchip traffic for the F.F. Soucy paper mill in Rivière-du-Loup and the cement traffic being directed to Moncton via the Newcastle subdivision, you are lucky if train 558 has over 10 cars. Today, i was on the unlucky side, with the train having only 1 empty centerbeam headed to the Lebel sawmill, in Nouvelle, QC. Train 558 does the run between Mont-Joli and Matapédia, interchanging cars with the Gaspésie Railway Society at the end of the outbound trip and serving the Uniboard plant in Sayabec on the return trip. It operates on the opposite days of train 562, which handles the freight cars for Campbellton and the Newcastle subdivision and the Cedrico sawmill in Causapscal.
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