The New Brunswick Southern Railway (NBSR) is a 84 mile railway operating in New Brunswick between Saint John and McAdam .

NBSR operates a 31 mile branch between McAdam and St. Stephen where it connects to an isolated section of former Maine Central Railroad (MEC), now operated by Guilford Transportation Industries (GTI), at Calais, Maine. NBSR also operates a 3 mile spur in Saint John to serve the port on the lower West Side of that city. NBSR crosses the St. John River in Saint John using its Reversing Falls Bridge and makes a connection with Canadian National Railway (CN) in the city's East End.

NBSR's subsidiary, Eastern Maine Railway (EMR), operates for 105 miles between McAdam and Brownville Junction, Maine with connections to the former MEC (now GTI) at Mattawamkeag, Maine and the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) system, formerly the Bangor and Aroostook (BAR) and Canadian American Railroads (CADC), at Brownville Junction.

History

NBSR and EMR are subsidiaries of industrial conglomerate J.D. Irving Limited of Saint John. The companies were established in 1994 and began operations between Saint John and Brownville Junction (and the branch to St. Stephen) on January 1, 1995 from Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). In 2002, NBSR entered into an agreement with CN to operate the latter's yard facilities in the East End of Saint John.

NBSR's trackage has a great deal of history, with its mainline to Maine being the first direct railway connection between the Maritimes and the rest of North America (the European and North American Railway of Maine ), the St. Stephen branch operates on part of New Brunswick's first railway (see New Brunswick Railway), and EMR's trackage in Maine operates on part of the former International Railway of Maine.

See also

• New Brunswick Southern Railway - official website