Lincoln ME Mill

No mention was made in the story about Lincoln's inbound rail service.

If trucking to Worcester is cheaper this guy isn't doing something right, lol.

It might help if the tracks where in better shape. If the tracks where good, i could say if WASJ/SJWA would switch the mill on its way by or if PAR would put an old war horse there as a switcher. I remember my father telling me that there really isnt a lot of stuff to be switched out at Lincoln when he used to work for Guilford back in the mid to late 1980s. But they switched it on there way to and from Mattawamkeag.

Someone posted this on NERAILS - http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?20120 ... 524642.jpg

Thank you Shawn O'Day (author).

Yep - I noticed this discussion today while surfing at lunch and realized that I could join in with some of the 300+ shots I took on my exploration of the old MEC from 'Keag to Bangor....I left Freeport at 5 am and made it up north in a couple hours - no trains heard on the scanner - but I took great pleasure in scoping oput the old trackwork and towns along the way. I need to look back at the notes as I sure I have alot of questions to start posting here. Enough lurking! Anyhoo the trackage in this part was very bad and now I realize why 10 MPH is a safe speed up here. The mill looked to be quite busy and I am not sure how the PAS is about walking around (I did not even try to at NMJ).

I have been doing this for years now - making maps and taking pics of railroads - not just trains....So far in Maine ...2009 Newport to Waterville...2010 'Keag to Bangor/NMJ....2011 Leeds Jct to Rumford...2012 ???? -The big Delorme and I are great friends....of course I did up Portland vacinity way back in '99....

BTW Freeport Library has a great RR book collection - I check them all out when in town from Flat Rock, MI for my two week stay on Wolfesneck.

later
Shawn

I would love to see some more shots from between Bangor/NMJ and Keag. I grew up in winn, about 3 to 5 miles or so from keag. I was home on in 2009 for 1.5 months and i got a ton of pics too. I just dont have them all posted.

I have no idea where they might be now, but I took a few photos along the stretch where the tracks parallel Military Road there in Winn in 1990 or 91, while I was dating a young lady in Mattawamkeag. B&M blue GP-9s waaaay up in the soul of Maine Central territory... gotta dig those pictures up someday!

JB283 wrote:Did he say anything about inbound rail?

They do get Sodium Chlorate in those funky silver hoppers, originating at Magog, QC on the MMA (interchanged via NMJ to the ST). Not sure about other commodities but I've traced Magog origin cars going to Lincoln (among other Maine mills on the ST).

JAJ

Hello - it seems that empty chlorate hoppers (aluminum?) seem to take a circuitous route to get back from Lincoln....From looking at the pics and reading the captions from Jason S. it appears that these cars are picked up at Lincoln on a NB PAR (BAMA?) , taken north to Keag, only to return south to NMJ. That move would eliminate a runaround move at Lincoln.

Several (3-4) of these cars were spotted on the PORU that I witnessed last July.

jjoyce1 wrote:

JB283 wrote:Did he say anything about inbound rail?

They do get Sodium Chlorate in those funky silver hoppers, originating at Magog, QC on the MMA (interchanged via NMJ to the ST). Not sure about other commodities but I've traced Magog origin cars going to Lincoln (among other Maine mills on the ST).

JAJ

Sodium Chlorate also comes off the D&H out of Saratoga.

((("That move would eliminate a runaround move at Lincoln."))) I cant imagine that the 2 sidings by the mill are in any shape to have a GP40 or 2 do a run around move on them. From every pic i have seen and taken myself, the one infront of the station looks like it might work, but i wouldnt hold my breath, the other one up the tracks on the same side of the station i can not speak for as i have only seen it once, years ago.

MR. JWhite07, I would love to see some of those pics. I use to live across the street from the end of the military road in Winn going to towards Keag. If i would have realized what i was seeing in the 1980s and early 1990s as a kid and a teen, i would have had a camera. Its amazing the things i would do over again if i had the chance....

Mr. Oday, i almost forgot. I posted a pic of the Tie Grinder on NERAIL if you wanted to see it. The pics from 2007. I dont know if its still there or not. Well i suppose i can put it here too.

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?20120 ... 229657.jpg

I read in another forum on this site that Lincoln Pulp & Tissue recently shipped 1 boxcar of outbound product not to long ago for the first time in years.