by MEC407
The EGE wrote:Rockland NIMBYs are gonna be a helluva lot worse than Brunswick NIMBYs. Trust me. Maine Eastern went through it 12 years ago when they first started operating. It got nasty very quickly. Replace an FL9 with a P42 and those folks would lose their $#!T.papabarn wrote:Truly crazy and utterly uninformed speculation: what if this is a result of the Brunswick layover opponents (who weirdly seem to have friends in power) and they want to shift the DE layover out to the existing yard in Rockland?gokeefe wrote:Things that make you say "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...."..BostonUrbEx wrote:If there's no tourist train, I have to wonder if Amtrak to Rockland truly is in the cards. At least seasonally.I think that is exactly what is going on. Notice the inexplicable visit by the inspection train within the past year.
I'm not certain Rockland Yard would even be big enough for the kind of layover facility NNEPRA wants/needs. It's pretty small. Plus CMQ will need it for their freight ops.
MEC407
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Pan Am Railways — Boston & Maine/Maine Central — Delaware & Hudson
Central Maine & Quebec/Montreal, Maine & Atlantic/Bangor & Aroostook
Providence & Worcester — New England — GE Locomotives