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Rumford branch crew with 5948-2548-6142 westbound with 16 cars met Portland crew with 505-7622 and 19 cars at Leeds Jct after lunch today. Crews swapped consists, retaining the power they arrived with and headed back home. List of train symbols I found posted online lists L053 eastbound M-W-F and L0...

Found this video which is an animation of a Union Pacific Big Boy showing how all the parts and pieces
operate with an good narration along the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hszu80NJ438

Steam under pressure from the boiler, typically between 160 and 250 psi, pushes a piston in the locomotive cylinders connected by main rods to the crank pin on the main drive wheels, causing the wheels to turn. Not really all that different in principal than hot expanding gas pushing a piston connec...

SLR's new power, SD70MACs 4022-4023-4024 arrived at Lewiston Junction this afternoon. After backing some freight cars onto the branch and returning to the ML, units backed eastward down ML and then pulled into the east engine house lead, cut off trailing two units and pulled 4023 into the house. Aft...

Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year, everyone!

I was fortunate in that GT conductor John Egan invited several friends to accompany him on a daytrip to Quebec to see 6060 on it's first outing, a round trip from Montreal to Victoriaville, PQ by way of the St. Hyacinthe Subdivision on 15 September 1973. I was a senior in high school at the time and...

To everyone, happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

I found a trip announcement in the "Extra Movements" column on page 64 in the September 1976 issue of Trains Magazine. It was advertised as a two day ( 9-25/26-1976 ) 518 mile excursion behind CN 6060 on the Laurentian Line on the north shore of the St.Lawrence River. Eight run pasts inclu...

393 west through South Paris about 1900; I think this is the first time they have run this week. Tuesday
and Wednesday news reports said there was no access to Bethel by road and I suspect the impoundment
at Shelbourne may have been a problem as well.

There are two proposed mine projects in Maine that have been slowly working their way through the regulatory process, the Lithium Mine in northern Oxford County and the Bald Mountain copper mine west of Ashland in Aroostook County. The latter is on Irving owned land and discovered on the 1970's. Mai...

I can understand people posting private property to keep people out but the Mountain Division ROW belongs to the State of Maine, likely under the jurisdiction of Maine DOT. I haven't noticed Maine DOT posting other railroad row that the State owns and doubt that signs posted by a third party would b...

Attracting any kind of manufacturing industry to Maine has a number of hurdles to overcome. To start, manufacturing isn't popular with a certain segment of the population, particularly new arrivals who view the place as a pristine playground and vacation land. Add strict environmental regulation and...

The Dragon plant at one time was owned by the Penobscot Nation, purchased with funds from
the Maine Indian Land Claims settlement and they contracted with Cianbro to manage/operate
it. Don't know when or why they sold it.

The car looks similar in design to WW1 era USRA wood sheathed center cupola cabooses; many
roads had them and many steel cars were later built to the same general design.

Ex-MEC 958 was built in 1949 with Maine Central being one of the last railroads ( other than shortlines, switching operations and tourist roads ) to operate locos with Alco 539 engines. When the railroad started replacing them with rebuilt Geeps in the late 70's the reason given was 539 parts were g...