Usually a sea of GP20 ECOs, a welcomed visitor operated along CP's Bangor Sub for a short spell in October 2024. A month into Autumn along the Searsport Branch, GP38-2 #3035 led local G15 through... (more)

Winter of 1999 was approaching fast, and CSX ownership of Conrail's Boston Line had already reached six months. One could still set their watch to the parade of trains through the area of Palmer,... (more)

Canadian Pacific's schedule of it's Searsport local G13 has been quite a bit later recently, with much if not all of the Bangor Sub under a 10mph limit. Trains have been rolling South through loc... (more)

What can be better than getting an unexpected day off from work on a Monday? That would be chasing a train in the middle of a snowstorm on a Monday! Even with near white-out conditions on Januar... (more)

Scanned from an Ektachrome slide....In an era before internet and social media had totally taken over the railfanning world, a morning of waiting was about to be rewarded on July 6, 2002 along Gui... (more)

With showers building fast to the North, Canadian Pacific's F13 was staying a step ahead on October 18, 2021. Making its twice-weekly run out of Hermon, Maine, the train had reached MP14 and the ... (more)

Following a hot and humid work day that had reached the 90s in Northern New England, why not be insane and hike up a mountain for a photo of a train soon after? Knowing Canadian Pacific job F13 w... (more)

A perfect New England Spring day was quickly turning into evening rather quickly on May 17, 2021. Thanks to a somewhat steady sea breeze, Canadian Pacific's Searsport Job could be heard in the di... (more)

Well into it's first Winter of operation over the Searsport Branch, Canadian Pacific has left schedules pretty much what they were during Central Maine & Quebec days. Perhaps a bit later on the r... (more)

On my way to a work related service call in upper Ellsworth, Maine, I came upon the crossing of Nicolin Road and the former MEC Calais Branch during the morning of December 4, 2020. A sign had be... (more)

As the last days of May 2020 approached, so did the end of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway as we knew it. Having just made six years of operation, they would be bought by another railroad that... (more)

Frankfort, Maine isn't exactly a well-known town unless you're into Revolutionary War history. Like many places along Maine's tidal rivers, it once was a hub for boat builders and lumbers traders... (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)

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)