Railway Histories - S

Sable River Lumber, Sable River (NS)
The main line ran 18 miles from Wilkins to Rush Lake and there was a 10 mile branch to Broad River Lake. A five mile pole railway was built in 1905 and the railway was built in 1906. The line and mill were closed in 1918 and the locomotives shipped out in Jan 1919. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Saguenay and Lake St John Railway Company

Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road 1836

Saint John and Eastern Railway 1887

Saint John and Loch Lomond Railway 1882

Saint John and Maine Railway 1878

Saint John and North Eastern Railway 1883

Saint John and Quebec Railway 1910

Saint John and Quebec Rly. Bridge Co. 1912

Saint John and Shediac Railway 1849

Saint John Bridge and Extension Railway 1881

Saint John City Railway 1886

Saint John Forwarding and Trade Promoting Ass. 1888

Saint John Railway Company 1894

Saint John River Railway 1888

Saint John Suburban Railway 1913

Saint John Valley and Riviere du Loup 1885

Saint John Valley Railway 1901 - 1909

Saint Martin's Upham Railway Company

Salem and Hillsborough Railroad 1984?

Salisbury and Albert 1909

Salisbury and Harvey 1889

Salmon River and Northern Railway,

Salmon River Logging Company Railway

Sandwich, Windsor and Amherstburg Railway Company

Sarnia Street Railway Company

Saskatchewan and North Western Railway Company

Saskatchewan and Western Railway Company

Saskatchewan Midland Railway Company

Saskatoon Municipal Railway

Schomberg and Aurora Railway Company

Scottish Canadian Magnesite Co

Shawinigan Falls Terminal Railway Company

Shawinigan Lake Lumber Company Railway

Shawinigan Water and Power Railway

Shediac and Cape Tormentine Railway 1886

Shediac and Coast Railway 1899

Shediac and Saint John Rail Road 1836

Sherbrooke Railway and Power Co

Sherbrooke Street Railway Company

Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships and Kennebec Railway Company

Shore Line Railway Bridge Company 1890

Shore Line Railway Company 1889

Shuswap and Okanagan Railway Company

Sing Chung Logging Company Railway

Societe de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Montreal

South Eastern Counties Junction Railway Company

South Eastern Railway Company

South Head Colliery, South Head (NS)

South Norfolk Railway Company

South Ontario Pacific Railway Company

South Shore Line Railway Company 1900

South Shore Railway Company

South Simcoe Railway

South Western Traction Company

Southampton and Harvey Railway 1894

Southampton Railway 1910

Southern Division

Southern Rails Cooperative

Southern Railway Of British Columbia Limited

Spokane and British Columbia Railway Company

Spokane International Railway Company

Spring Hill and Parrsboro Coal and Railway, Springhill (NS)
Incorporated in 1872 and sold to the Cumberland Coal and Railway in 1883. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Springfield Railway, Crossburn (NS)
Line was built by Cavicchi and Pagano and was operated by Davison Lumber. Closed July 1921. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Railway

St Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company

St Andrews and St Croix Railway 1878

St Andrews Deep Sea Wharf and Railway 1867

St Anthony Lumber Company Railway

St Catharines and Niagara Central Railway Company

St Catharines Street Railway Company

St Catharines, Merritton &Thorold Street Railway Company

St Charles and Huron River Railway Company

St Clair Frontier Tunnel Co

St Clair Tunnel Co, organized 1886

St Croix and Penobscot Railroad 1870

St Croix Docks and Railway 1912

St Eustache Railway Company

St Francis and Megantic International Railway Company

St John Street Railway Company

St John Valley and Riviere-du-Loup Railway

St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad Company

St Lawrence and Hudson Railway Company Ltd

St Lawrence and Industry Village Rail-Road Company

St Lawrence and Ottawa Railway Company

St Lawrence Pulp and Paper Company Railway

St Lawrence, Lower Laurentian and Saguenay Railway Company

St Louis, Richibucto and Buctouche Rly. 1882

St Martin's and Upham Railway 1871

St Martin's Railway 1906

St Mary's and Western Ontario Railway Company

St Mary's River Railway Company

St Maurice Railway and Steam Navigation Company

St Maurice Valley Railway Company

St Stephen and Milltown Railway 1886

St Stephen and Milltown Street Railway 1887

St Stephen Electric Street Railway 1891

St Stephen Nickel Railway Co. 1893

St Stephen Railroad Co. 1851

St Stephen's Branch Railroad 1864

St Thomas Street Railway Company

Stanstead Granite Quarries Railway

Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad Company

Steel Company of Canada

Stelco Inc

Stewiacke Valley and Lansdowne Railway Company, 1886 (NS)

Stony Mountain Railway

Stratford and Huron Railway Company

Suburban Rapid Transit Company

Suburban Tramway and Power Company

Sudbury, Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway Company

Sun Portland Cement Company Railway

Sunbury and Queen's County Railway 1874

Superior and Western Ontario Railway

Superior Lumber Company Railway

Superior Portland Cement Railway

Sussex, Studholm and Havelock Railway 1889 - 1912

Sydney and Glace Bay Railway Company, 1902 (NS)

Sydney and Louisburg Coal and Railway, 1881, Sydney (NS) -- See Sydney and Louisburg Railway.

Sydney and Louisburg, 1910, Sydney (NS)
Sydney to Louisburg 39.15 miles; branches to coal mines 25.75 miles. Dominion Coal was incorporated on 1 Feb 1893 to acquire by purchase or otherwise of all the coal mines between Sydney and Louisburg and to build railway lines and loading piers. For many years the Sydney and Louisburg was not a separate corporation but was just a department of Dominion Coal. In 1894 the S&L extended the former International Railway to a connection with the railway lines serving the Glace Bay and Caledonia Mines. In 1895 the S&L extended to Louisburg, an ice free harbour. Sydney and Louisburg Railway was incorporated in 1910 to acquire the lines owned by Dominion Coal and to build additional lines. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Sydney Mines Railway, Sydney Mines (NS)
Sydney Mines to North Sydney - 2¾ miles, Sydney Mines to Princess Colliery - ¾ mile, Sydney Mines to Florence - ½ mile. General Mining Association incorporated 1825, locomotives first used 1856. Acquired by Nova Scotia Steel and Coal in 1901which amalgameted with Dominion Iron and Steel and Dominion Coal to form the British Empire Steel Corporation. Property was acquired by Old Sydney Collieries. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Sydney Steel, Sydney (NS)

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