Caption: VIA Train 14 was running some six hours late as it speeds through Harcourt, New Brunswick, about 5 p.m. on a wintery Monday, March 7, 2005. It is passing the deconsecrated Wesley Memorial United Church a few hundred yards north of the site of the CN station at Mileage, 24.4 of the Newcastle Sub.

The Ocean, on its way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, had a healthy consist of F40-PH2s 6416 and 6426 with baggage car 8619, coaches 8139 and 8127, dome 8505, diner Louise, Chateau sleepers Laval, Marquette, Papineau, Viger, Radisson, Jolliet and dome observation Laurentide Park. At Catamount, it would meet Montreal-bound Train 15, a Renaissance set behind units 6421 and 6413.

The Newcastle Sub extends from Catamount 173.2 miles north along the east coast of New Brunswick, ending at the division point of Campbellton. This route of the Intercolonial Railway linked Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to central Canada. Its completion on Saturday, July 1, 1876, satisfied one of the conditions that had brought the eastern provinces into the Canadian confederation. The Ocean began running on this route on Sunday, July 3, 1904, and had recently celebrated its 100th year of service as North America's longest continuously operating name train.