The Scotian Railroad Society (SRS) was created in 1968. Its aims were to provide a social organization for railway enthusiasts to meet; to research, compile and publish current and historical information about railway transportation in the Maritimes; to acquire, preserve and display railway artifacts and rolling stock; and to promote public awareness of, and interest in railway transportation by events such as railway travel excursions. Members included Robin Monies, Edmund Sigston, Norman Shapland, Gary Pollock, Graham McBride and the writer H. B. Jefferson. The SRS published a newsletter, called The Maritime Express (from 1968 to 1975) and The Scotian Railroad Society News (from 1976 to 1983) with articles and documentation about Maritime railway equipment and companies. The Society collected photographs, books and documents. In the early 1970s, the society moved to collect railway rolling stock which were assembled in a short-lived railway museum near the Mumford Road railway overpass on a siding once used by the Sears Department Store, including a 2-6-2 locomotive built in 1911, the "Georgia Peach", from the Intercolonial Coal Company in Westville, NS. The burden of maintenance and vandalism on the society's locomotive and passenger cars led to the end of the society in 1983. The society tried to find homes for its collection but most of its rolling stock was demolished on site, including the "Georgia Peach" in the spring of 1982.^[1] Once exception was the steam crane No. 414324 which was transferred to the Salem and Hillsborough Railway Museum in New Brunswick. The Society's papers were deposited at the Nova Scotia Archives. The collection includes correspondence, research notes, publications and photographs, many of which relate to the Dominion Atlantic.

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Scotian Railroad Society fonds, RG 28 Series S, Nova Scotia Archives