With Canadian Pacific Railway set to take over the Central Maine & Quebec Railway US operations at 0001 hrs on Thursday, June 4, the final pair of road trains between Brownville Jct., ME and Farnh... (more)

The Final Days: What has become a rather quick process of changing hands, the Central Maine and Quebec Railway will soon be under full ownership by Canadian Pacific. Upon re-acquiring trackage the... (more)

Interim scheme

There was a little break in the clouds for once on this trip. After a week I decided that the only way to railfan New England is to live there and have no other commitments other than waiting fo... (more)

Morrison-Knudsen rebuilt several locomotives with Swiss Sulzer prime movers in the late 1970’s, sending out demonstrators to attract potential buyers. One was this rebuild of former UP GP9 278. ... (more)

Twenty seven years can certainly change things when talking about the timeline of railroads! Many have come and gone in this amount of years, and the state of Maine has been no exception to this.... (more)

The benefits of bad weather......Thinking it could be my last chance in early 2020 to see a train in falling snow, I took a page from the recent Social Distancing manual and went out along Central... (more)

Pan Am's Waterville - Northern Maine Jct rolls passed the repainted MEC depot in the center of town. WANM has a mixed bag of EMDs on this night: GP40-2W leading a remotored SD45, SD40-2, and GP40.

B&SR 7 and WW&F 9 doubleheader's through the Maine woods at MP6

New Hampshire Northcoast D-8 led by NHN 3825 (ex-CR GP38-2) passes through Lebanon, ME with loads for Boston. This small stretch of the railroad, roughly 1,500 feet, passes through Maine,while the... (more)

It's always a bonus when you can get out of work early and chase a train for good measure, but a third element of special comes when the weather brightens up and cooperates with you in time! Grab... (more)

On a beautiful March 9th, 2020, Central Maine & Quebec's Searsport turn was seen returning from a day of switching along the Maine shoreline. The "CIT" GP38s had things well in hand as they appro... (more)

With two U18B’s and two GP38’s, a Maine Central manifest heads north out od Rigby Yard in South Portland, Maine.

"The Pine Tree Route"

You know it's bad when you write the caption in your head before you even take the shot! But when I saw this young white pine growing along the... (more)

SAPI3 comes around the corner and into the connection with the main at Fairfield. From here its just a couple miles down to the yard at Waterville.