Maine Central train number 15, the Flying Yankee, is seen at Portland Maine in 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

The light is fading across northern Maine as the last day of 2020 slips away. Darting across the East Outlet of Moosehead Lake is Canadian Pacific train 250. Running on the former Central Maine an... (more)

Spent many Septembers in and out of Maine, always very rewarding. Just about everything I saw is gone in 2025. No more so than this day when the Sappi Local, with two GP9 that were a staple on t... (more)

A pair of SD60's cruise along the shore of the frozen Little Greenwood Pond as they lead CP 250 east through Bodfish, Maine on a sunny winter day. After passing through Greenville, the Moosehead S... (more)

A pair of SW7's idle at the locomotive facilities in Bangor.

Looks like a freshly painted F3 that just came off the turntable.

A broadside view of a BAR SW9.

Red Over The East Outlet. A Sunday "extra" edition of Canadian Pacific Railway Train 250 was actually carrying freight for CP as the customer, with a trainload of continuously we... (more)

Amtrak 696, the southbound Downeaster, races through a marsh in Scarborough, ME at Winnocks Neck Road. Leading today's train is NPCU 90406 which wears Amtrak's old Phase III paint scheme.

Former Bangor and Aroostook snow plow VB 152 sits along the Bangor Subdivision in front of the Derby Shop complex with many SD60 Variants of SOO and Burlington Northern Heritage. The SD60s and SD... (more)

Looking east from Leeds, Maine is a vast landscape around Androscoggin Lake and its islands, with the CSX Rumford Branch running along the swampy forests on the lake's western shores. A pair of Pa... (more)

CSX's L053 and L054 local jobs have both arrived at Leeds Junction, Maine on the former Pan Am railroad and the crews get ready to swap their trains. The L053 crew has already backed their units u... (more)

With a train of cars picked up from Dragon Cement and Dicaperl Minerals, a pair of B23-7's lead the Midcoast Rail's westbound train as it crosses a causeway along the western edge of the Damarisco... (more)

Train 910 rolls through the Route 11 crossing at Perkins Maine on its way South to Brownville Jct. after working Millinocket.

CPKC train 120 pulls into Brownville Jct. yard leaving a nice reflection as it crosses the Pleasant River Bridge. KCS power in Maine has become almost a daily occurrence since the merger of CP an... (more)