Train Schedule on the Gaspe

I've been doing my research to determine how many trains once traversed the Chandler and Cascapedia Subdivisions as well as when and how often.  I had it narrowed down, mostly from captions on photos, or talking to Dominique the Stationmaster, Peter the Engineer and Boyd the Conductor in New Carlisle over the years.  When I received my 2012 Trains en Gaspesie calender, there was a booklet in the envelope, which outlined the history of the line, bilingual I might add.  To my surprise, there was a paragraph on train numbers inside!  This, for the most part, finalized what I knew about movements on the line, which I summarized in the table below.

	Passenger	Freight	Mixed
1944-1957	Matepedia -Gaspe           (daily) 35/36	Matapedia-New Carlisle (daily) 510/511 512/513 516/517 544/545 New Carlisle-Gaspe  (daily) 502-503 504-505 508-509 546-547 Matapedia-Gaspe (Monday-Saturday) 201-202	No records
1957-1960	Matapedia-Gaspe   (Monday-Saturday) 35/36 Matapedia-Gaspe (Sundays) 71/72	same as above	Matapedia-Gaspe (Monday-Saturday) 101-102
1960-1970	118/119 (daily) between Matapedia-Gaspe 621/622 (daily) between Montreal-Gaspe 630/631 (daily) between Matapedia-Gaspe -used railliners  -"Sputnik"	Matapedia-New Carlisle (Monday-Saturday) 910-911 912-913 New Carlisle-Gaspe (Monday-Saturday) 902-903 Matapedia-Gaspe (Monday-Saturday) 747-748	None
1970-1983	-same as above -sometime in this period 630/631 was dropped	-same as above  -sometime in this period 747-748 was dropped -towards 1980, all freights renumbered to 594/595	None
1983-1998	621/622 became 16/17  (Montreal-Gaspe) “The Chaleur” -originally ran daily, but was cut to six days by 1998, later to the current three	594/595 (daily) ran from Campbellton, NB-Gaspe	None

This information is accurate to the best of my knowledge.  It's simply amazing for a line of 202.4 miles to have five separate freights daily.  They really were busy up until the late 1970's it seems.  It should be noted that the Cascapedia Subdivision is 98 miles long, running between Matapedia and New Carlisle and the Chandler Subdivision is 102.4 miles long, stretching from New Carlisle to Gaspe.  During the 1980's until 1998, it was rare for a freight to travel past Chandler more than once a month or so.  At that time copper ore from Murdochville was loaded into 40' boxcars at Sandy Beach (Gaspe) and the main shippers were by far Gaspesia Paper in Chandler and Smurfit Stone in New Richmond.


Now all I have to do is determine things like times, common consists, commodities hauled and so fourth between 1970 and 1980, which is the specific period I would like to model.