until 1968 when its property, along with DOSCO's coal mines, was expropriated by the Canadian federal government to form the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO). DEVCO in turn created the Devco Railway from the part of former S&L connecting Glace Bay and New Waterford to Sydney; the remaining lines of the former S&L Railway were abandoned. Even under Devco, for several years the company did business as the Sydney & Louisburg Division of the Cumberland Railway. In 1972, with H.S. Haslam as general manager, the company operated 39 miles of route with offices in Sydney. The road owned at that date 15 diesel locomotives and 1,100 freight cars. See also Robert Gilmour Leckie List of defunct Canadian railways Notes Coal companies of Canada Defunct Nova Scotia railways Mining railways Transport in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Transport in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Companies established in 1825 Energy companies established in 1825 Railway companies established in 1825 Energy companies established in 1884 Non-renewable resource companies established in 1884 Mining in Nova Scotia Coal in Canada