After a performance in Hermon, the CPKC Holiday Train is seen heading North to Brownville on the Bangor Subdivision running along the Sebec River in Milo.

After a two-year pause during the pandemic, the Canadian Pacific Holiday train is back for the 2022 season. The first place the American train visited was the territory in Northern Maine. The f... (more)

Ex BAR F(3) A unit original number 44 renumber 502 has been stored for years at the Derby Shops by several railroads including BAR, IronRoad, MMA and CMQ is finally moving to a location that is un... (more)

Following painting of the Bangor & Aroostook heritage tribute unit, owner of the Southern Pride Mobile Locomotive Painters, Devin Frazier, applies the lettering and final touches to the beig cowl-... (more)

The November 8 Central Maine & Quebec Job 1 power set is serviced and ready to go at the CMQ's Derby Shops in Milo, Maine. CMQ SD40-2Fs 9021 and 9010 idle under clear starry skies and await picku... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec's Bangor & Aroostook heritage tribute unit is posed for a night roster view of the conductor's side of the unit on the afternoon of November 7. Some will notice the lack of... (more)

History repeated itself for the final time today at the one-time busy Bangor & Aroostook - now Central Maine & Quebec Railway - shop complex in Milo, Maine. The last-ever freshly-painted Bangor &... (more)

Welcome to the family! Central Maine & Quebec Railway has finished painting its ten 6-axle ex-Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2F and released the final unit in a special Bangor & Aroostook heritage... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec Railway has finished painting its ten 6-axle ex-Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2F and released the final unit in a special Bangor & Aroostook heritage tribue scheme. (This w... (more)

Coming soon to a PR photo... In the shop and getting some TLC in advance of a future photo shoot, the Bangor & Aroostook F3A #502 (ex-42, nee-502) is seen idle, while CMQ SD40-2F #9023 waits for i... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F #9024 is getting its original Canadian Pacific Railway paint removed at the Derby Shops, while 9021 and 9023 ahead of it undergo finishing touches on their new corpo... (more)

Paint crews are busy getting the next SD40-2F ready for the new corporate scheme for the Central Maine & Quebec. The 3-stage process has one unit being ground down and sand blasted, while one is ... (more)

Welcome to the world Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F #9021! Ironically the 9021 was released today, on 9/21, as the first of 10 SD40-2Fs being painted this fall for the Central Maine & Quebec Rail... (more)

BL2 57 was paired with F3A 44 for an excursion from Northern Maine Jct. to Milo. A head-on shot is snapped prior to departure from Derby Yard, still in use today by the MM&A.

This lumber was manufactured into wooden spools that utility companies would wrap wire on prior to intallation overhead poles. (Ed: later many would be recycled into coffee-table use, from person... (more)