Caption: To help fighting coastal erosion, the provincial government allocated a 25 Million dollars contract to replenish the beaches in the small town of Maria, in eastern Quebec. To help fighting vehicular traffic on Route 132, the railway was chosen to carry the crushed stones from a quarry in Nouvelle, to the beaches of Maria. These operations consists of about 6 round trips a day. One with a train made of 7 Diffco side-dump cars and one locomotive at each end, and another made of multiple modified 2-bay cement hoppers, four ex-UP ballast cars along with 2 locomotives at the head end and one at the rear end, in order to return the empty train back to Nouvelle. This longer train only operates twice a day, once in each direction. These operations should last until December 2025, and they make for a nice opportunity to catch SFG's fleet of RS18us, as a large part of their roster is needed to conduct these operations. In this picture we can see one of the empty return trips of the shorter train, led by RS18 #1849 and ending with HLCX 1069, passing by the old VIA Rail Carleton station. It has been abandonned since VIA Rail discontinued the Chaleur trains, due to the line past of New Richmond being in disrepair. It is unknown when service will resume.