Remarks: A Montreal, Maine & Atlantic scheduled 46-car freight moves West from Springfield Terminal and crosses Station Road in Etna, Maine during a beautiful Autumn Saturday afternoon on former Bangor & Aroostook rails.
MEC-#374 is former NS-#1349, a high-nose EMD GP40. MEC-#319 is former CR-#3213 short-nose EMD GP40. Both 3000hp units are in phase II paint.
This consist and motive power is typical of the traffic seen on this line, which passes behind my home a short distance to the East. The vast majority of trains pass through town at night. Sectional rail, some of which sits on wood ties dating as far back as 1926, limits speed to around 25mph on a good day.
The video was taken from my dashcam on Oct 20 2007.
Nice video. Just a correction: that railroad is not the MM&A and that is not an MM&A train. Etna is located on what was mainline of the Maine Central Railroad. Maine Central is owned by Pan Am (formerly Guilford) and operated by B&M subsidiary Springfield Terminal.
Thanks for the correction. I live here and I'm just as confused as anyone... The sign at the entrance to Springfield Terminal says "Maine, Montreal & Atlantic", the MOW equipment and vehicles say "Guliford", the locomotives say "Guliford" but have "MEC" numbers and we see an awful lot of "Pan Am" rolling stock. Of course, the railroad bridges are still labeled "Bangor & Aroostook", but that's just nostalgic instead of confusing. The facinating mixture of history makes-up in a small way for the lack of traffic and over-all poorly maintained right of way. It's not the BNSF TransCon just a dozen yards from my home in Arizona that I moved from in 2001, but it is just as interesting in a very unique way.
You must be referring to Northern Maine Junction, where the Maine Central mainline meets the Bangor & Aroostook mainline. That's where it gets a little confusing! Here is a map of Maine's rail lines, which should make things much clearer: http://www.maine.gov/mdot/utilities/pdf/railmap.pdf
Posted by Matt Sawyer on April 2, 2013
Thank you for correcting, I was going to but I'm Glad you did.
Posted by Matt Sawyer on April 2, 2013
Great Video By the way!
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