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The Chemin de fer terminal de Montréal (formerly the Montreal Terminal Railway, but many of the staff supported Québec separatism and insisted that the railroad name should be in la langue française, which the Parsons Vale Trust had absolutely no problem with) was a joint property of the PV&T & LT&L – and is now a separate railroad subsidiary of the trust – operating freight lines in Québec and Ontario, and, via their St-Jean-sur-Richelieu shops, maintaining all of the Alco & MLW power on the Parsons Vale system.

For the first century of its existance, it was a nondescript terminal railroad giving the PV&T and LT&L access to Montréal and the surrounding suburbs, but it gained fame near the end of the 1950s by continuing to operate steam until it was forceably dieselised by the PV&T after the 1962 merger, then by obsessively sticking with Alco power (including ¾’s of the existing Alco DL-109 multipurpose locomotives) for many decades after Alco & MLW went out of business.

TdM History

Note: TdM North is the TdM lines northwest of the Saint Lawrence; South is, obviously, not that.

1835

Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad chartered.

1850

Montreal and Southern Railway chartered.

1857

C&SL merged with the Montreal and New York Railroad, forming the Montreal and Champlain Railroad.

1864

1. M&S converted to standard gauge from 5" gauge.
2. The Grand Trunk Railway leases the M&C.

1871

M&S purchased by the LC&T.

1872

The GTR attempts to purchase the M&C outright, but the LC&T owned about 50% of the stock and instead the M&C was split in half, with St-Lambert to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu going to the LT&L and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu to Rouses Point going to the GTR.

1880

MTRR formed by merger of Montreal and Southern Railway with the LT&L half of the M&C and the PV&T’s line from Philipsburg to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

1885

built Brossard to Marieville (including trackage rights on the Central Vermont from Richelieu to the outskirts of Marieville)

1886

1. built Boucherville to Victoriaville
2. Started construction of a bridge over the Saint Lawrence at Verchéres

1889

1. built the MTRR South mainline from Boucherville to Verchéres
2. … and MTRR North from the Verchéres bridge along the north side of the river west to Hawkesbury, Ontario

1895

extended MTRR South from Brossard to Ormstown, with a branch to Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague

1902

built branches from Repentigny to Rawdon & Saint-Jérôme

1909

Electrified the Marieville branch, thanks to spring flooding on Riviere Richelieu washing out the MTRR bridge and subsequent trackage right on the Montreal & Southern Counties Railway.

1912

1. 600 VDC electrification of Montréal-Est & Brossard to Delson.
2. MTRR 5-8, 700-hp steeplecabs, purchased for freight operations on the newly electrified Brossard to Delson segment.

1915

Extended operations from Rouses Point to Plattburg by getting trackage rights on the Delaware & Hudson.

1918

1. Canadian Northern electrification, 2400VDC Montréal to Cartierville.
2. MTRR electrifies (@2400VDC) from Saint-Lambert to Iberville.

1930

1. PV&T electrification reaches Saint Albans.
2. MTRR extends their Iberville electrification down into the United States to meet the PV&T electrification (giving electrified routes to both Portland, ME and Boston, MA.)
3. MTRR Electrification converted to 3000VDC (2400 between Gare Central and Saint-Lambert) to match parent PV&T’s electrification.

1938

MTRR 101-107, 2-8-2 steam, purchased.

1940

MTRR 300-306 transferred from LT&L.

1946

MTRR 201-203 transferred from PV&T (101-103).

1961

Merged into PV&T

1962

Dieselised.

1964

Transferred the section of subdivision Hawksbury that went along the Ottawa River through Oka to the Kanehsata'kehró:non after purchasing the ex-CNoR line from Grenmont to Rodgerdale. The TdM continued to operate this line on contract until the Kanehsata'kehró:non decided to stop subsidizing passenger service in 1998.

1966

MTRR North, and the eastern half of MTRR South, electrified to complete the LT&L’s Ottawa<->Québec electrification.

1970

Officially renamed to the (previously unofficial, but almost universally used) french version of the name – Chemin de fer Terminal de Montréal.

1971

The GTR’s lease on the northern half of the C&SL ends and the line is returned to the TdM for operational control.

1988

Leased the balance of the (now dieselised) Montreal & Southern Counties, only to abandon it as uneconomical in 1996.

more-or-less compete TdM locomotive roster (1913-1961)

Most of the motors and diesel locomotives on the TdM were assigned by the PV&T or LT&L, but, particularly from the late 1930s on, most of the steam engines were owned directly by the TdM.

Number(s)	Class	Type	Acquired	Disposition	Notes
1-2	e44	B-B steeplecab	1909	retired 1958	assigned to Delson-Marieville
3-4	e44	B-B steeplecab	1909	retired 1944	assigned to Delson-Marieville
5-8	e44b	B-B steeplecab	1912	retired 1958	assigned to the Montréal-Est switching district
9-10	e44b	B-B steeplecab	1912	retired 1958	assigned to Delson-Marieville
11-13	s6	0-6-0	1910	retired 1952
14	s6	0-6-0	1910	retired 1962
15-19	s6	0-6-0	1911	retired 1947
20(first)	s6	0-6-0	1915	retired 1938
21-24	s4	0-4-0	1915	retired 1947
24	s4	0-4-0	1915	retired 1939
31-33	s8t	0-8-0t	1917	retired 1962
101-110	sr8	2-8-2	1938	retired 1962	renumbered to 354-359 immediately before being retired
111-117	sr8	2-8-2	1938	retired 1946	ex-LT&L; replaced by d44b’s 1101-1106
1001-1002	d44	Baldwin VO-660	1944	to PH&W 1955
1011-1013	d44a	Alco RS-1	1941	to LT&L 1950	locomotive swap for 2-8-2s 111-117
1101-1102	d44b	Alco RS-2	1946	retired 1962	traded in for MLW RS-20’s
1103	d44b	Alco RS-2	1946	retired 1976	rebuilt as RS-2m #371 1966
1104	d44b	Alco RS-2	1946	in service	rebuilt as RS-251 #375 1966
1105-1106	d44b	Alco RS-2	1946	retired 1962	traded in for MLW RS-20’s
201	sr10	2-10-0	1946	retired 1955	was PV&T 101
202	sr10	2-10-0	1946	retired 1958	was PV&T 102
203	sr10	2-10-0	1946	retired 1962	was PV&T 103
20(second)	Ω	4-6-0+0-6-4	1958	stored 1962	finally sent to the historical fleet in 1998