Rockland Branch Discussion

I misremembered the years of material left to mine. Not 10, but 25-30 according to a previous post in this thread. https://www.railroad.net/post1628712.html#p1628712

>whalebelly for BML

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The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad is receiving one of the former Dragon Cement whale belly hoppers for display purposes. The rest were/are scrapped.

That's cool. An interesting piece of Maine railroading history that would've been all too easily forgotten.

2310 WB with 8 loaded cement and 1 perlite through Finntown Road in Warren at 09:06.

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They will have 3 empty cement to pick up in Brunswick.

Saw they went westbound today to Brunswick. Did they ever end up picking the cement cars up or is that a tomorrow task?

I heard a rumor 2309 was moved to rockland yard w/ 2310. From a friend who saw it on FB

2310 was EB with one hopper through Finntown Road, Warren at 13:00.

Wonder why they just brought one up if they had 3 to grab last week.

They probably already grabbed them on last week's run... they may have switched ASA while grabbing this car.

is 2308 in use currently. ive noticed a trend that #2310 has been running lately. My assumption would be they have a rotation, but i could be wrong.

NHV 669 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:16 pm 2310 was EB with one hopper through Finntown Road, Warren at 13:00.

They were parked at ASA a little after 8 this morning.

So maybe they did switch ASA after all today (or yesterday).

Anyone have any updates on the line during this April snowstorm? It’s a coastal route and I’m not sure how well the seaside areas of Maine are faring, especially after the storms earlier this year.

2310 was WB with 8 hoppers at 09:19 through Finntown Road in Warren.

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They have 6 cement empties coming from L077 to take east.