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It is good news that the Millinocket and East Millinocket plant may reopen but I am sure there are plenty of hurdles to cross first. The East Millinocket plant produced mostly newsprint and directory paper I believe. With newspaper readership in serious decline and yellowbooks seemingly going away, ...

The real problem is the non existent economy of northern Maine. They just do not generate enough rail traffic to support a profitable rail operation without some type of govt support. There is too much dependence on forest products that tend to suffer in recession. Maine is less and less competitive...

The MMA rail lines up for abandonment in Northern Maine are said to lose 5 million per year. Cost 2.5 million per year to maintain, and the land and steel have a salvage value of 17 million. These lines are not economic without substantial subsidy. Unfortunately, losing the rail lines, even with red...

The MM&A is very dependent upon the forest products industry. With the building industry on its knees and newspaper readership seriously in decline (along with phone books going the way of the Dodo bird), I would think the next few years do not look bright for any uptick in business. It is amazi...

Unfortunately you just cant get blood from a stone. The little freight traffic in Maine is drying up. The Millinocket and East Millinocket paper milles were 40% of MM&As traffic, Millinocket is closed, East Millinocket is at reduced capacity. The future is not bright. Lets see if the State comes...

If a biomass boiler is built at the Millinocket mill most likely the wood waste will come in by truck. This is not all bad, since this type of material would generate very low revenue. It will come in from several sources so truck would be the preferred means of conveyance. However, rail would benef...

Halifax has lost a lot of traffic over the years to the port of Montreal. A ship can steam up the St. Lawrence to Montreal by the time a ship unloads in Halifax and CN takes the containers through (Montreal). I cant see why Searsport would have an advantage over Montreal as a destination for contain...

The Millinocket Mill generates about ten percent of the MM&A carloads. These are inbound oil, chemicals, and pulp and outbound paper. About 4,500 carloads in all. Though the papermachine in the mill is the newest one in Maine and cost 125 million to install, with its paper production sold out th...