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2005-12-21

December 21st, 2005

We got up in Bangor a little later than we'd have liked and headed up to Brownville Junction to see what we could find. We just missed MMA 8569, a freshly painted MMA unit, heading into the shops at Derby, but caught 2 MMA F40s and a variety of other interesting trains including NBSR over the course of the day in the area. We also met two area railfans who guided us through the day, and without whom we would not have caught much of what we saw, so thanks Kevin and Matt!

Brownville_Junction

Brownville Junction, Maine

(map) Brownville Junction is its own town near Brownville, hosting an MMA yard and tracks heading out every which way. New Brunswick Southern, officially called Eeastern Maine Railway in that area, interchanges with MMA at this yard.

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NBSR #902 Brownville interchange switches the MMA yard at Brownville Junction.

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NBSR #902 Brownville interchange switches the MMA yard at Brownville Junction.

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Millinocket

Millinocket, Maine

(map) Millinocket is about 30 miles North of Brownville Junction, just West of Interstate 95 and an hour North of Bangor.

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MMA #203 crosses a river just outside Millinocket with 2 former CDAC F40s leading.

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MMA #203 crosses highway 11 just South of Millinocket.

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West_Seboeis

West Seboeis, Maine

(map) West Seboeis is between Millinocket and Brownville Junction on the MMA Millinocket sub.

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MMA #203 crosses a private crossing at West Seboeis.

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Brownville_Junction

Brownville Junction, Maine

(map) Brownville Junction is its own town near Brownville, hosting an MMA yard and tracks heading out every which way. New Brunswick Southern, officially called Eeastern Maine Railway in that area, interchanges with MMA at this yard.

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Brownville

Brownville, Maine

(map) Brownville has a frequently used wye for the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic between their Derby shops and Brownville Junction.

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Milo

Milo, Maine

(map) Milo and Derby are sister towns on either side of a river on the MMA line, hosting the Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Derby shops near Brownville Junction and about 40 minutesNorth of Bangor.

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Brownville_Junction

Brownville Junction, Maine

(map) Brownville Junction is its own town near Brownville, hosting an MMA yard and tracks heading out every which way. New Brunswick Southern, officially called Eeastern Maine Railway in that area, interchanges with MMA at this yard.

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MMA #1 crosses Church street on its way through Brownville Junction. To get into the Junction it will continue a few miles up to Brownville, around a wye, then back up to Brownville Junction a mile from this crossing.

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Brownville

Brownville, Maine

(map) Brownville has a frequently used wye for the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic between their Derby shops and Brownville Junction.

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MMA #1 Millinocket to Montreal job heads through the wye at Brownville.

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Derby

Derby, Maine

(map) Derby and Milo are sister towns on either side of a river on the MMA line, hosting the Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Derby shops near Brownville Junction and about 40 minutes North of Bangor.

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Hermon

Hermon, Maine

(map) Hermon is just South-West of Bangor and hosts the MMA Northern Maine Junction with the Guilford as well as MMA's RTC and offices.

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2005-12-22

December 22nd, 2005

We slept in Lewiston, Maine with the intention of catching St. Lawrence and Atlantic's only daytime train we could be sure existed the next morning. We caught it and an MEC train at Danville Junction, and pondered how to shoot at the Lewiston Junction locomotive facility. Once we caught the SLR train we headed to eastern New Hampshire to see if we could catch the New Hampshire North Coast's gravel train, which we did - at Sanbornville.

Danville

Danville, Maine

(map) Danville Junction and Lewiston Junction are near the Maine city of Lewiston. Danville Junction is the Junction of the Maine Central (Guilford) and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic (SLR). Lewiston Junction is the site of SLR's main locomotive shops.

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SLR #513 arrives at Danville Junction to begin switching.

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SLR #513 switches Danville Junction.

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SLR #513 pushes a cut of boxcars back and pulls forward, prompting a trucker to shout down to me "they just keep going back and forth - are they on drugs?" on the other side of the tracks.

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SLR #513 reverses and holds, allowing traffic to cross the long-fouled grade crossing.

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Two ST locomotives are cut off their train and head to Danville Junction station for water for one of the locomotives.

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