New Brunswick·Roadside History
West Main Street in Moncton is now the home of several car dealerships, but it was another mode of transportation that gave the area its defining characteristic not that long ago.
‘Almost impossible’ to overstate importance of trains in Moncton, says historian
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 15, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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A 1956 overhead view of some of the CN rail infrastructure in Moncton, including the roundhouse. (City of Moncton)
West Main Street in Moncton is now the home of several car dealerships, but it was another mode of transportation that gave the area its defining characteristic not that long ago.
Much of the area, from the subway to the roundabout, was once home a sprawlling section of rail infrastructure.
James Upham, a historian and contributor to CBC Radio’s Information Morning Moncton, said it would be “almost impossible” to overstate how big of a deal trains were in Moncton.
“You look at old maps of the Moncton area and you look at the proportion of the geographic area that was Moncton,
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