Lacolle station

Lacolle railway station is a railway station located in Lacolle, Quebec. Its address is 21 rue Ste-Marie adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Lacolle Subdivision. A large piece of land surrounds it and a long yard is located on the other side of the tracks.Situated close to the Canada–US border, the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Lacolle played a role as both a railway station and a customs and immigration post for Canadian and American border officers.Today the building is abandoned, but acquisition of the station from Canadian Pacific Railway is almost complete as of October 2011 by the municipality of Lacolle. The municipality is planning for the restoration of the station by 2014 at an estimated cost of 1 million dollars. The station is planned to be a municipal museum; the historical society would also have space for a conference room (as told by local newspapers and the mayor of Lacolle).HistoryIn 1881, the Napierville Junction Railway was created to build a line from Rouses Point, New York to Montreal. Construction involved the most direct route to Montreal with minimal grades possible. After the line was completed Lacolle had already built a wooden railway station (construction date never found) that was later ravaged by flames in 1929.In 1907, the Napierville Junction Railway was purchased by the Delaware & Hudson Company, hence the D&H’s architecture/style of the station. On April 9, 1907, the Napierville Junction Railway was opened from Delson, QC to the US-Canada border, giving the Delaware & Hudson a link to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Grand Trunk Railway. The Napierville Junction was given the same track that the D&H’s subsidiary company, the New York & Canada Railroad had built the year before from the border to Rouses Point. Its length was approximately 1.1 miles.