Saint John

Saint John is New Brunswick's largest city. It is an industrial city, and is New Brunswick's largest port. Please view my railfan's guide to Saint John.

Saint John has two major yards, CN's Island Yard (now leased by NB Southern), and NB Southern's yard in Saint John West. There is also a small yard at Bayshore. Saint John has no VIA service any more.

There are many rail customers in Saint John. Some ones I know of are:

• Irving Pulp Mill, Reversing Falls
• Irving Refinery, Saint John East
• Irving Lubricants, Saint John East
• Potasco, Saint John South
• Esso oil tank farm, Saint John South
• Port of Saint John, Saint John harbour
• Praxair, Saint John East (2 cars/day)
• Custom Fabricators
• Ocean Steel, Saint John harbour

Trackage leading into the Port. The trackage leading to the left of the picture is the section used for container traffic; some of the lower trackage leads to the automobile area. The former Lantic Sugar refinery is visible in the background, right.

The yard inside the Port perimeter. At the time of the picture (Dec 1 2002) there were some flatcars and some NB Southern ballast cars in the yard. Trains serving the port serve container, boxcar and autorack traffic.

CN 5252 in CN's Island Yard.

NBSR 3703 and 3744 idling in the CN Island Yard.