NBRR RS-23 #1040 in LT&L tricolour

When the LT&L purchased the CAR’s rail lines in Québec, Maine, and New Brunswick, they split the surviving lines (far too many of the CAR’s rural lines had no traffic, or had been knocked out of service by flooding) into three groups. The Acadian (northern) lines went to the PRR(y), the mainline across to St John & St Stephens became part of the LT&L, and a small handful of teetering on the edge lines centered at Fredericton became the New Brunswick Rail Road.

The NBRR consists of four branches;

None of these branches are particularly busy, but are reasonably sited enough to hopefully not be destroyed by storms, flooding, or ice jams (there is but one bridge crossing the terrifyingly ice jam prone St John, and that is pinned between a pair of highway bridges in Fredericton, so the upstream road bridge helps protect it from the spring thaw.)

The NBRR serves these branches with the previously mentioned class 320, plus a handful of DL10, DL10b, and DL16 locomotives that have been pushed off other Parsons Vale railroads by the slow march of electrification.

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