Charlevoix Railway

As a freight railway the main commodities transported are: clay, timber, lumber, cement, woodchips, paper, and peroxide.

[4][5] The railway was to be built along the Saint Lawrence River and was intended to provide service to as far east as Baie-Sainte-Catherine, which was in turn expected to be developed into a major seaport with ice free shipping even in winter.

Rodolphe Forget ran for the House of Commons in 1904 promising voters to extend the QM&C line, which was eventually done.

It required huge investments in time and money: there are two tunnels and 900 bridges and culverts, or an average of one every 165 metres (541 ft).

The hotel building burned down in the fall of 1928 but was rebuilt to designs by John Smith Archibald and reopened in June 1929.

In 1984 the line saw the reintroduction of passenger service when a dinner train known as the Le Tortillard du Saint-Laurent started operating between Quebec and La Malbaie.

[citation needed] The Tortillard du Saint-Laurent dinner train was restarted under another company and ran again in 1995 and 1996 before declaring bankruptcy.

[13] Beginning in September 2011, a new tourist train service began operation along the Charlevoix Railway between Quebec City and La Malbaie.

The first Manoir Richelieu in 1899. Note the absence of rails along the river at the time.
The railway traverses a small bridge in front of a waterfall near Montmorency , 16 July 2005
View overlooking the top of Montmorency Falls where the Montmorency River flows into the St. Lawrence River . The Charlevoix Railway bridge over the Montmorency River is visible at the further end of the plunge pool . Beyond it lies a bridge carrying Route 138 and beyond that is the Île d'Orléans Bridge over the St. Lawrence, 26 April 2009.