The New Brunswick Railway Museum is located in Hillsborough NB, about 20 km down the Petitcodiac River valley from Moncton.
Up until about the early 2000s, they ran a tourist train excursion on the old CN line from Hillsborough to Baltimore (NB), but as a private not for profit organization, they could not afford to keep up the maintenance on the line, which is most unfortunate.
Until the mid 1990s this tourist train was pulled by an old steam engine (which they still have on display). I remember vividly a day trip I took with my family down to Fundy Park one Sunday, and we were completely unaware that such a train excursion existed (I had only lived in Moncton 3-4 years at that point). As we neared the rail crossing just outside Hillsborough, an old fellow in railway engineers overalls pulled up to the crossing in an old pickup truck, got out, and stepped onto the road flagging down the traffic to stop. We had no idea what was going on, until suddenly we heard a steam whistle in the distance, and saw a plume of steam rising in the distance from behind a group of trees. Within a minute or two, the steam train passed by, happily blowing it's whistle, with the engineer and the conductors waving to the stopped traffic on the road.
It was magical and unforgettable, and I was very sad when I heard that the excursion train was being cancelled a few years later. Things like this are very worthy of preservation...……….