The New Brunswick Railway Museum, owned and operated by the

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, New Brunswick Division, is a museum located in

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consisting of the railway's line last remaining steam engine. It was formerly known as the Salem and Hillsborough Railroad (S&H) before the rails were superseded by Highway 114. The Salem and Hillsborough Railroad was formed in 1982 by a group of volunteer railroad enthusiasts and retired railroad employees. They took possession of a section of former Canadian National branch line trackage which ran from CN's

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- Saint John mainline at

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east to just beyond the village of Hillsborough, approximately away. CN had operated this subdivision to service a

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quarry until the late 1970s when the quarry was closed, resulting in the company applying for abandonment. The first trial trains operated in 1983, and the line opened to the public in 1984. The S&H initially operated historic CN and Canadian Pacific

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, which had been used in New Brunswick until the early 1960s when both railways completely dieselized. A third steam locomotive, Sydney and Louisburg 42, was used briefly in the early-mid 1980s, but it was quickly removed from service to undergo boiler work. No. 42 was later donated to the

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. The S&H operated regular coach and dinner tourist trains between Hillsborough and a location halfway between Hillsborough and Salisbury, named

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, from 1984 until 2004. On 16 September 1994, a fire occurred which destroyed the yardhouse and several engines and carriages within, as well as offices and historical records. Since 2005 the site became a static museum as the New Brunswick Railway Museum, using the former excursion train as a centerpoint.

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