[PHOTO] Lone rail caboose at Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island

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This lone wooden railroad caboose with the insignia of the Canadian National Railway is the only sign that the community Borden-Carleton--or, as it was known before the Confederation Bridge, Borden--was the interface between the Prince Edward Island Railway and the rail networks of the mainland. As Pat and David Othen observe in their article, in the decades before Prince Edward Island's railroad network was abandoned, ferries shuttled cars and engines between the mainland at Cape Tormentine and Prince Edward Island.