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Rockland yard if full. Something I've never seen before. They've taken 2 hoppers down to the siding by the former train station. Dragon has restarted operations so some of these should be heading out soon. I believe the rest are all empty Perlite hoppers from Decaperl. No photos since I only had my...

I park my car in Brunswick 4 days a week and have never had a problem, not have heard of anyone else with a problem. It's hardly a high-crime area. The parking lots on Station Lane (between Maine and Union Sts.) are relatively safe, but several vehicles got broken into at the "park and ride&qu...

I believe Trains magazine recently reported 764 being leased to the Strasburg. I don't have a link to the article, but saw it quoted on another forum.

FLRailFan1 wrote:Now, Is the BML still in business? Or is it a tourist railroad?

That is a nice article. The reporter really got it right.

I believe all Perlite goes to Dicaperl, which is then distributed to Dragon and FMC BioPolymer. Correct; Dragon receives nothing by rail anymore. The petcoke is trucked in from Searsport. There may have been some shipped in by rail for a short while right after the kiln was changed over, but I thin...

So based upon the previous conversations, it seems that the takeaway is that there's really no provision for train crew protection, unless specifically authorized by the company. I thought this was kind of strange as a blanket policy considering the monetary value and potentially hazardous nature o...

I've tried Googling this, but end up mostly with results about Woolwich in the UK. I don't know if it was pre-1983, which this section of the forum is about, but I'm pretty sure it was before the line was sold to Maine DOT. I think the location was somewhere around 43.957946° N, 69.746244° W. When I...

The only businesses I can think of in the Rockland area are a scrap metal dealer, and Fabian Oil, which just installed some sizable tanks a year or 2 ago, both located just down the tracks from DiCaperol. But I doubt either would be big enough to warrant any rail use. Especially since they would re...

PS - BIW remains PAR's customer, no? As far as I know, ST has never switched BIW since the line was abandoned. I don't believe there has been an MEC/GRS/PAR/ST locomotive delivering anything past the interchange point (Rock Jct. or westward) since MDOT bought the Rockland Branch, until the recent u...

every railroad under FRA rules is federal property, and also just about every class 1 has a no-firearms clause in their rule book, usually found in letter rules. Company rules are one thing, and anyone who works there should know that they can become unemployed by violating those rules. But althoug...

You didn't hear this from me but some do have guns in their grips. lol. Rules prohibit carrying any weapons. If they do get caught one has to know the price which would most likely be termination hopefully no criminal charges for carrying on federal property. Other than bans on possession of weapon...

Brunswick isn't a heavy work shop; it's a layover with a spot-repair track pit under the shed and a general-purpose MOW base . Please help me here. What role does Amtrak (or the NNEPRA) have in MOW activities? Wouldn't that be the purview of PAR, CMQ or MEDOT? Or am I just missing something? You're...

No-one seems to remember that the ME was owned by a short line, albeit a moderate sized one that probably offered similar synergies re billing, etc. And I'm figuring the Rockland dispatching center roster hasn't changed. :wink: Of the four MERR employees offered positions with CMQ, the dispatcher/a...

CMQ ran today a train from Thomaston to Brunswick and back. Both trains had around 10 cars each I'm glad I read the whole thread; that's better info than I had. All I knew was "CMQ 2001 west through Warren 09:53. Eastbound through Waldoboro at 16:03." I'm guessing the majority of the cars...