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Railways of Southern Quebec Vol 1 by J Derek Booth w dust jacket
Railways of Southern Quebec Vol 1
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
160 pages
Copyright 1982
CONTENTS
A: List of Figures 4
B: List of Plates 5
C: Preface 8
Chapter 1: The Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad 17
The Route of the SS&C19
Construction of the SS&C 22
The SS&C and the Vermont Central Railway27
Massawippi Valley Railway Company28
Train Service on the SS&C30
Impacts of the SS&C50
Later History of the SS&C 54
Summary 55
Chapter 2: The South Eastern Railway56
The South Eastern Counties Junction Railway58
The Richelieu Drummond and Arthabaska Counties Railway63
Relations with the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad66
The Montreal Portland and Boston Railway 69
The South Eastern under Bradley Barlow70
Breaking the Grand Trunk Monopoly 73
SER Expansion in the Halcyon Days 74
The Eastern Strategy of the Canadian Pacific Railway 77
The Montreal and Atlantic Railway:
Dismembering the SER97
Retrospective 98
Chapter 3: The Missisquoi and Black Rivers Valley Railway 101
Organization and Construction 1870-77 103
The Struggle for Survival 111
Impact of the MVR 130
D: Conclusion to Volume 1 132
E: Notes and References 135
F: Appendices 143
1: List of Railway Acronyms 144
2: SER Locomotive Roster 1883 146
3: Railway Abandonments 148
G: Acknowledgements 150
H: Selected Bibliography 151
I: Index 157
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: The Eastern Townships of Quebec10
Figure 2: Southern Quebec Railways 1864 16
Figure 3: Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad - Proposed Routes 16
Figure 4: Massawippi Valley Railway 1870 29
Figure 5: Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad 186530
Figure 6: Waterloo 1864 52
Figure 7: South Eastern Counties Junction Railway57
Figure 8: South Eastern Railway 1873 64
Figure 9: South Eastern Railway System 1882 76
Figure 10: Southern Quebec Railways 1884 99
Figure 11: Missisquoi and Black Rivers Valley Railway 1877 100
Figure 12: Southern Quebec Railways 1980 148
LIST OF PLATES
33a: Asa Belknap Foster, 1817-77.
33b: Lucius Seth Huntington, 1827-86.
33c: Vermont Central Rail Road locomotive Gov. Smith built in 1852 by Souther (Boston) as No. 40, Iron Horse, and renamed in 1869. Sold to the SS&C in 1884, this engine served on the line for a number of years before being returned to the Central Vermont. when it was renamed I.B. Futvoye in honour of Isaac Booth Futvoye. superintendent of the Canadian Division of the CV.
34a: Locomotive Peter Clark of the Boston. Concord & Montreal Railroad. Built in 1851 by the Boston Locomotive Works, this engine exemplified early design features.
34b: Central Vermont locomotive No. 1. Joseph Clark, originally Baldwin-built No. 1, Gov. Paine, rebuilt and renamed by the VC in St. Albans in 1863 and sold to the South Eastern Railway in 1877 as No. 10, Joseph Clark.
35a: Central Vermont locomotive No 40, I.B. Futvoye, originally named Gov. Smith, saw service on the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly Railroad up to 1895.
36a: The village ofAyer's Cliff. Que.. with Boston & Maine Railroad station in the left foreground. c1904.
36b: The second Boston & Maine Railroad station at Ayer's Cliff, Que.. c1930.
37a: Boston & Maine Railroad station at Beebe Junction, Que.. in 1910.
37b: Rerailing Boston & Maine Railroad locomotive No. 251 at Beebe, Que., on April 9th 1902.
38a: Parade of Knights Templar at the Boston & Maine Railroad station at Stanstead. Que.. 1903.
38b: The former Massawippi, Que., station of the Boston & Maine Railroad, as converted into a summer residence near its original site, 1969.
39a: Stanstead, Que.. station of the Boston & Maine Railroad, 1911.
3%: Site of the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly's trestle bridge over the Richelieu River at St. Jean, Que.. 1%9. Built in 1864, this structure was dismantled following abandonment of the line in 1956.
40a: View of Newport and Lake Memphremagog. South Eastern Railway facilities are in the foreground. Lady of the Lake has just left the dock.
40b: Owl's Head mountain on the shore of Lake Memphremagog forms a backdrop for the Lady of the Lake.
41a: The steamer Mountain Maid at dock in Newport, Vermont. c1875. Launched in 1851, it was the first steamship on Lake Memphremagog.
416: Union Station, Newport, Vermont, with Lady of the Lake in the background.
42a: Miners and mill hands at the Capelton. Que.. copper and acid works on the Boston & Maine Railroad. c1920.
42b: The steam yacht Orford, belonging to Sir Hugh Allan, which operated on Lake Memphremagog c1880.
43a: The Lady of the Lake on Lake Memphremagog.
43b: Grand Trunk Railway locomotive No 65, built by Neilson & Company, Glasgow, in 1868 as a broad gauge engine. It was rebuilt to standard gauge as shown in 1873.
44a: View of the village of Waterloo, Que., shortly after the construction of the Stanstead. Shefford & Chambly Railroad, c1867.
44b: SS&C/CV/CN roundhouse at Waterloo, Que., with CN/CP diamond crossing in foreground, 1957.
45a: CV/CN station at West Shefford. Que., 1957.
45b: The Miner Rubber Company plant and its industrial siding in Granby. Que., 1972. Rubber factories were one of the group of exotic industries which were able to locate in satellite towns around Montreal in the latter part of the nineteenth century after the construction of railways such as the Stanstead. Shefford & Chambly. The extent to which railways have been superseded by road transport in the provisioning and distribution of finished products from light industries such as this one. is evidenced by the state of repair of the siding and its facilities as shown in the photograph.
46a: Abandoned CV/CN turntable at Waterloo. Que., 1965.
47a: Site of the CV/CN turntable and enginehouse at Waterloo. Que., with turntable removed and partially-demolished CV/CN station in background. 1976.
47b: Mileage board on the CV/CN station at Waterloo. Que., in 1973. showing mileage to Montreal via Granby. Farnham. Ste. Angele and Marieville.
48a: Central Vermont locomotive No. 35, Richford, built by the CVR at St. Albans in 1874.
48b: South Eastern Railway employees at the Richford, Vermont. shops c1881.
81a: Narrow-gauge locomotive No. 1. St. Pie, of the Lake Champlain & St. Lawrence Junction Railway at Bedford. Que.. c1881. Soon after. the LC&StLJ was converted to standard gauge and the St. Pie was re-gauged and renumbered No. 19 of the South Eastern Railway, retaining its name.
81b: South Eastern Railway snowplough No 5. Snow Bird, at Farnham. Que., c1884.
82a: South Eastern Railway No. 2. St. Francis. built by the Canadian Locomotive & Engine Company at Kingston about 1880 as a narrow-gauge locomotive, and subsequently converted to standard gauge.
82b: The former South Eastern Railway station at St. Cesaire, Que., under demolition in July 1971.
83a: South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 14, C. W. Foster, later Montreal & Atlantic Railway No. 14.
83b: Montreal & Atlantic Railway locomotive No. 9 at Waterloo. Que., c1895. This was formerly South Eastern Railway No. 9. Brome.
84a: Orford Mountain Railway Locomotive 1st No. 2, formerly South Eastern Railway No 2, St. Francis, c1897.
84b: Locomotive No 5. Dartmouth, of the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad, built in 1851 by the Taunton Locomotive Works and scrapped in 1879.
85a: South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 16, A.B. Chaffee, built in 1880 by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works.
85b: South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 18. Richford, subsequently Orford Mountain Railway and No. 2.
86a: Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad locomotive No. 26. Montreal, originally South Eastern Railway No 6. Montreal, built in 1872 by Rhode Island and subsequently sold to the C&PRRR.
86b: Invoice to the South Eastern Railway for station construction materials. probably for Stanbridge East station.
87a: Canadian Pacific water tank and station at Brigham Junction, Que. (later Brookport) at the junction of the Newport and Sherbrooke subdivisions, c1910.
88a: South Eastern Railway locomotives Orleans, left. and Joseph Clark, involved in the June 26th 1879 collision near Waterloo.
88b: Another view of the South Eastern Railway wreck near Waterloo in 1879. Note the hand-operated crane at the left.
89a: General view of the South Eastern Railway accident of June 26th 1879 between Waterloo and Warden. Que.
89b: Roadbed of the South Eastern Railway under construction near Knowlton. Que., in 1876. "Lakeside", the residence of Hon. Christopher Dunkin, can be seen in the centre.
90a: Boston & Maine Railroad locomotive Wamesit. Built by Taunton in 1883 as No. 31, Acton, of the South Eastern Railway, it was repossessed by Taunton and resold to the B&M.
90b: South Eastern Railway Locomotive No. 24, B.B. Smalley, built by Rhode Island in 1881. at Richford, Vermont.
91a: South Eastern Railway station at Sutton Junction, Que., with SER locomotive No. 12, Farnham.
91b: Former South Eastern Railway engine house at Sutton Junction, Que., photographed in 1965 after the abandonment of the section of CPR's Drummondville Subdivision between Sutton Junction (Enlaugra) and Knowlton.
92a: South Eastern Railway roundhouse at Farnham. Que., in the 1880s.
92b: South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 26, John Dodsworth. at Rich ford, Vermont. This engine was built in 1881 by Rhode Island, and was named, originally. Longueuil.
93a: Original South Eastern station at Waterloo. Que., showing characteristic architecture.
93b: Canadian Pacific roundhouse at Farnham, Que.. in 1914.
94a: This imposing building at Farnham, Que., built about 1873, served both as a station as well as a headquarters for the South Eastern Railway. After the SER's operations were integrated into those of Canadian Pacific in the late 1880s, it became the headquarters of the CP's Farnham Division until it burned in 1948.
94b: General view of the Canadian Pacific yards and shops at Farnham, Que., taken from the station tower, c1920.
95a: Canadian Pacific (originally SER) station at Farnham, Que.. after tower and spire had been removed.
95b: South Eastern/CP station building at Abercorn, Que., in 1902 illustrates the distinctive SER architectural style.
96a: South Eastern Railway locomotive No 2. St. Francis as equipped with footboards for switching at Richford, Vermont, c1885.
96b: South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 29, T.A. McKinnon, built by Rhode Island in 1883. This locomotive eventually became No. 7032 of Canadian Pacific.
97a: SS&C/CV station and water tower at Farnham. Que., on February 9, 1952.
113a: Sawmill at Bolton Centre. Que.. on the Missisquoi & Black Rivers Valley Railway.
113b: Sawmill workers at Bolton Centre. Que., c1880.
114a: Canadian Pacific section gang at West Brome. Que.. c1900.
114b: Canadian Pacific's wooden bridge over the Yamaska River on the Newport subdivision. 1902.
115a: Canadian Pacific station, freight shed and water tower at Sutton. Que.. 1902.
115b: The brick Canadian Pacific station at Cowansville, Que.. displayed a construction style unique to the former South Eastern Railway system, 1902.
116a: Canadian Pacific station at Brigham, Que., 1902.
116b: South Eastern/CP station building at Bedford. Que., in 1 %7. Despite the exterior sheathing, the South Eastern origin of the structure is unmistakable.
117a: Grand Trunk Railway station at Waterville. Que.. 1910.
117b: The second station at Watervile, Que., in the Canadian National era, 1971.
118a: Temporary station facilities at Sutton Junction, Que., in 1902, after the destruction of the original station by fire. The track to the left is the main line to Montreal: that to the right is the branch to Drummondville.
118b: Second Canadian Pacific station at Sutton Junction. Que.. c1915.
119a: One of the few rural brick stations in southern Quebec. the CP's West Brome structure in 1902. 120a: Grand Trunk Railway station at Upton. Que., 1911.
120b: An accident on the Grand Trunk Railway at Richmond, Que., in 1914.
121a: "The Scoot". a Grand Trunk local train which operated between Richmond and Coaticook, Que.. c1905. The train operated on a daily-except-Sunday basis, leaving Richmond at 3:30 PM for Coaticook and returning at 7:30 PM. The 4-4-2 sidetank locomotive with small coal bunker permitted normal speed operation in reverse, a necessity in this case as there was no turntable at Coaticook.
121b: Turn-of-the-century view of the main street of Coaticook. Que., one of the several small manufacturing cities which emerged in the latter part of the nineteenth century in southern Quebec.
122a: Grand Trunk Railway station at Lennoxville, Que., as it looked in 1919.
122b: Grand Trunk Railway station at Windsor Mills, Que., with waiting hotel omnibusses, c1905.
123a: The former Grand Trunk Railway station at Lennoxville, Que., during demolition in April 1970.
123b: Grand Trunk Railway station at Dixville. Que.. c1910.
124a: Canadian Pacific water tank and original station at Mansonville, Que., (later Highwater). 1902.
124b: General view of Newport. Vermont, from Lake Memphremagog, showing CP facilities and the site of its future Newport station, 1902.
125a: View of a Richmond county cheese factory characteristic of the small dairy industries of the region in the late nineteenth century.
125b: Canadian Pacific's commodious station at Newport Center, Vermont, had upstairs living accommodation for the station agent. Photo taken in 1902.
126a: A general view of a portion of Newport. Vermont, looking north across Lake Memphremagog, 1902. Note the railway embankment across the bay at left centre.
126b: Canadian Pacific station and freight shed at North Troy, Vermont. 1902.
127a: Canadian Pacific's East Richford, Vermont water tank with station and yard in the background, 1902.
128a: SER/CP station at Richford, Vermont, in 1902.
128b: Canadian Pacific bridge. water tower and station building at East Richford. Vermont, 1902.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Railways of Southern Quebec (Volume 1) examines aspects of railway building in eastern Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. By virtue of its geographical location and cultural heritage, southern Quebec was a region in which one of the densest railway networks in Canada developed. Examples of most of the principal types of railway were to be found in this area; the author has chosen particular railway companies to illustrate some of the salient economic, political and physical realities of railway building during this era.
The Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad epitomizes early railway ventures in terms of the visions of its backers, the practical difficulties of fund raising and its involvement in the intense rivalry amongst mid-nineteenth-century railway companies in Canada and the United States.
The South Eastern Railway is one which sprang from local initiatives and grew - under the guidance of men like Asa Belknap Foster and Bradley Barlow - to become, for a short period, the most extensive system in southern Quebec.
The history of the Missisquoi and Black Rivers Valley Railway, while brief, is nevertheless highly representative of rural branch-line railways, and of the financial legerdemain required to keep them afloat.
Railways of Southern Quebec includes one-hundred photographs and twelve maps. It is fully referenced and indexed, and provides a selected bibliography of pertinent railway and historical sources.
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