There is some intermodal business moving on the N.B. Southern, says NBS general manager Dale Thibodeau in the Maine Rail Watch publication. Sunbury Trucking (an Irving subsidiary) is moving trailers from Toronto to Saint John using CP, the Bangor & Aroostook system and NBS. Trains of mixed freight (not dedicated intermodal) run between Montreal and Saint John 12 hours apart with a running time of 16 hours.

A 5-year interline agreement by CN, NBS, and Guilford Transportation Industries was signed on April 29. The service, weekly to begin, will carry containers from Halifax to Ayer, Massachusetts with locomotive and crew changes in Saint John and Mattawamkeag, Maine. Start of the service has been delayed, awaiting shipper committments to traffic.

Crews on the Iron Road System (ex-CP Saint John-Montreal) are said to be talking about re-routing of the Halifax-Montreal VIA service through Maine if problems are encountered in the short-lining of the Intercolonial Moncton-Mont Joli route.

The "Branchline" publication of the Bytown Railway Society notes that CN sold its interest in Halterm Ltd. (Halifax Container Terminal) during the second quarter of 1997 for $21 million.

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