The Société des chemins de fer du Québec (SCFQ), or Quebec Railway Corporation (
reporting markQRC) in English, is a former
Canadian railway holding company that owned several short line railways in the provinces of
Quebec,
Ontario,
New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.
From 1993-2009, Quebec Railway Corporation purchased and operated several rail lines throughout eastern Canada.
Chemin de fer Charlevoix, operating between
Quebec City and
Clermont, Quebec in the
Charlevoix region. Bought from CN by the QRC, it was the holding company's first subsidiary short line. Operations began in 1993. The section of the line between Quebec City and
La Malbaie, Quebec was sold to
Le Massif for a
tourist train operation in April 2009 while the section east of La Malbaie to Clermont has been abandoned.[1]
CN said that it planned to change little in the operations of the acquired lines, although the railroad said it intended to invest capital to upgrade the track it acquired, as well as replacing the locomotives with newer motive power.[3]