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It seems like Sprague has stopped receiving clay slurry in Portland as well. I haven't seen any tank cars at Yard 6 in several weeks. I was under the impression that most of those WFRX tank cars were shuttling between Portland and Rumford

Right now nothing moves by rail out of Yard 8. The Maine Port Authority wants to realign and expand the Yard 8 intermodal ramp but there's very limited space to do so. The focus now is developing the IMT into a specialty port for refrigerated cargo and they expect the facility to have a max capacity...

another nail in the coffin for the Rumford Branch. With Jay gone and Rumford running on borrowed time....My money is on the branch being a rail trail by decade's end.

Best case scenario would be for this OSB facility to bring in adhesives and send out centerbeams. There's not much detail about the planned scale of the facility but this certainly better than letting the site get overrun by the service sector and light industry.

It would be really interesting to see where those truck-to-rail conversions are coming from in PAR territory and what traffic they're chasing.

They really did redact all the good bits in that filing!

It seems there may be a new customer in East Augusta on the Lower Road. Photos posted on the CSX Northeast railfans Facebook page shows two new spur tracks along with truck scales installed just south of Gold Star Feeds. Apparently a scrap transload site. Also, the spur into Performance Food Group h...

If you talk to any of the CSXT middle level managers in the region they all pretty much say the same thing, that while Jacksonville certainly did their due diligence prior to the sale, they continue to be surprised at just bad the physical plant is. Outside of the Portland Division, they described ...

Last night NEPW went before the Portland Planning Board seeking approval for a new ~60,000 sq. ft warehouse facility on Read St just south of their existing warehouse along the D1 main. The plans presented didn't show any kind of rail connection and rail service and they never mentioned rail service...

It doesn't seem likely that any other party would be interested in buying and operating the plant given that there's only 25-30 years worth of material left in the mine. The "glass half full" view is that the line is in good shape, BIW will still need lots of steel, and scheduled passenger...

Seems like nothing short of catastrophic for the branch as a whole. Unless Finger Lakes can drum up a decent amount of new business freight service is finished east of Bath. A few isolated carloads of fish bait aren't going to pay the bills.

Realistically, what are the possibilities for traffic growth? Pulp and Paper traffic won't come back in any meaningful way, intermodal potential is limited, and propane volumes are going to start to level off and then decline in coming years as more and more Maine homes and businesses switch to heat...

Yes, BlueLinx is the only customer left on the branch, but they seem to be receiving more by rail lately.

With the first phase of the Saint John port expansion becoming operational this month and with the 'Keag rebuild being complete by the end of the summer, what's the likelihood of "day one" intermodal traffic moving down the MEC as soon as the 'Keag connection is up and running? Even if it'...

A little over an hour spent watching traffic on the Maine Turnpike at the Kennebunk service plaza and I counted (Total Northbound and Southbound): 31 40-foot cubes (23 with long distances cabs, 8 with day cabs. 5 of the 8 Day cabs were Eimskip containers bound for Portland) 14 53-foot cubes (JB Hunt...

Brush and overgrowth has been extensively cleared on the spur leading into the Pine Tree Industrial Park just west of Rand Rd. The building (80 Pine Tree Industrial Pkwy) recently changed hands.

Potentially a new customer along the Mountain Branch??