Here's a closeup of one of the cars, with
Most of the cars were the same CN 198xxx series used to ship the raw gypsum from Nova Scotia to McAdam, but a few are gondolas.
Train 587 of the New Brunswick East Coast Railway takes the gypsum cars to Bathurst, where they get on NBEC train 402 to Moncton. There, CN takes them to Saint John on train 406, and finally NB Southern Railway delivers the cars to a location behind Irving Paper where they are unloaded.
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Hi there traingeek. I love your website! I come to visit often. I grew up not to far from the tracks in the St-Leonard NB area. I just wanted to let you know that the pictures you have of the rail cars at the Belldune power plant, you are saying that the pile of rocks behind the car is gypsum. That stuff is in fact limestone. The limestone used in Belledune comes from the quarry in Sormany in behind Robertville.
The limestone is used in the scrubber to react with acid in the flue gas to make gypsum.
The reaction is something like this. The formula is not balanced.
H2SO4 + CaCO3 = CO2 + H2O + CaSO4*2H2O
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