by dnelson
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Never will see a freight train again. One of the worst rail purchases the state ever made.GE45tonner wrote:What's the current status of the Bangor-Calais line?PAR owns the first couple thousand feet of it roughly to the I-295 overpass so nobody else can establish freight service on it. MEDOT owns the rest. Downeast Scenic leases the Brewer-Ellsworth section for excursion service (and will probably be allowed into downtown Bangor when their volunteers get done upgrading the rail inch by inch westward). To Calais is MEDOT-owned and railbanked, and mostly trailed. Although the state keeps throwing money at studying kooky restoration schemes.