MEC 345 Leads WA-R to Detroit, ME on a rainy Monday afternoon. To the right, it surpasses Maine Switching Services' new-to-them GP9u #8231 from LTEX, which sits in the siding in Burnham waiting to... (more)

Well into it's first Winter of operation over the Searsport Branch, Canadian Pacific has left schedules pretty much what they were during Central Maine & Quebec days. Perhaps a bit later on the r... (more)

As the last days of May 2020 approached, so did the end of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway as we knew it. Having just made six years of operation, they would be bought by another railroad that... (more)

Frankfort, Maine isn't exactly a well-known town unless you're into Revolutionary War history. Like many places along Maine's tidal rivers, it once was a hub for boat builders and lumbers traders... (more)

Interim scheme

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

Three-year-old Maine Central GP38 261 posed at Rigby Yard in South Portland, ME, on a spring morning.

A local transfer run of Canadian grain hoppers from the Maine Central to the CN (via the Atlantic & St. Lawrence RR) does some street running on Commercial Street in downtown Portland.

Boston & Maine heritage painted 77 leads a local through downtown Pittsfield bound for Northeast Agricultural Sales in Detroit, Maine.

Happier times from 2010: today both this GP9 and the Madison Branch are no longer in service. That was not the case in the summer of 2010, where ST 71 is seen passing a recently opened "China Sky.... (more)

A load of frozen seafood is pulled from High Liner foods by the DO-1. The local will return to Portsmouth to build its train, the crew will go to beans, then they'll head back to Newfields to tie... (more)

Someone had clipped the wings of the eagle on the front of all of the MEC U boats. Crews drew them back in with a magic marker. The transition from Maine Central to Guilford was riddled with probl... (more)

After leaving some cars for Maine Eastern and turning the engine around on the wye, 378 departs Brunswick with four cement cars on its way to Rigby Yard.

A pair of vintage geeps cast a reflection, leading SAPI-3 down the Hinckley Branch toward Waterville, ME. It's an amazing site to see these units in mainline service in 2009.

WA-2 cruises past the westward absolute signal at CPF 107 while blowing for the Bellsqueeze Road crossing at 1338. The empties are from Cavendish Agricultural at Detroit.