Final class move... Running the last Bangor & Aroostook line trip as the final Central Maine & Quebec Railway train, CMQ Job 400 used the BAR heritage SD40-2F 9017 to lead from Brownville Jct. to... (more)

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)

Steam over Trout Brook! For the first time in 86 years, a steam locomotive crossed Trout Brook during the 2019 Fall Work Weekend. All of this activity was associated with work trains of on... (more)

On August 29, the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad's northbound train 393 crosses the Wild River at Gilead, Maine, with a trio of St. Lawrence & Atlantic units, including the Road Slug 804 leading... (more)

B&M 326 smokes it up on the point of Pan Am train PORU (Portland to Rumford ME) as it crossed the former MEC bridge in downtown Lewiston, ME on it was way to Rumford.

Pan Am train RUPO (Rumford to Portland Maine) crosses the large bridge in downtown Lewiston on former Maine Central tracks as it makes its way west (compass south) to Portland.

On a cold winter afternoon, a trio of Maine Central units are returning to Bangor after spending most of the day switching at the large paper mill in Bucksport. There is plenty of ice in the Pen... (more)

Across the Border

Amtrak's northbound Downeaster, train number 693 (Boston MA to Portland ME) crosses from New Hampshire into Maine as it crosses the Salmon Falls River, which... (more)

Maine Eastern crosses the bridge at Nequasset while the sun struggles to poke through; a little less cloud cover would have been nice since I was basically risking my life for the shot by standing... (more)

NM-1 has arrived at Old Town from Northern Maine Junction and is preparing to shove back boxcars for the Expera Mill. With the mill recently stating they will be closing in December due to the la... (more)

Pan Am's NMBK w/ MEC 517 - MEC 321 slowly heads over the bridge connecting Bangor and Brewer - crossing the Penobscot River on a nice October afternoon.

Running solo on August 12, 2014, Central Maine & Quebec 2003 was in charge of train #211 as it crossed Marsh Stream from Frankfort into Winterport, Maine. It's been nice seeing the B23-7s back do... (more)

Maine Northern southbound out of Oakfield crosses the East Branch of the Penobscot River at Grindstone.

BML#50, a GE 70-ton diesel electric locomotive purchased new by the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR in Waldo County, ME, in November, 1946 and still running strong after 68 years with three MEC freigh... (more)