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Madawaska in the 1980s
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CP Presque Isle Oakfield MAINE Brownville Jct. Bangor Rumford Fryeburg Portland Waterville Rockland
Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak ©2012 Carstens Publications Not all lines shown. Not an official map.
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tives at 25 m.p.h. or better, as well as a look up at a dark sky filled with bril- liant stars, which I witnessed while changing to the return train at a meet in the remote wilderness. The Maine Central at Bangor was of- ten accommodating as well, with its old wooden roundhouse and turntable fa- cilities that supported a small yard on the banks of the Penobscot River. One night, as a friend and I were pho- tographing standing locomotives, a cu- rious hostler, seeing our setup with
Brownville Junction was once a busy division point on the Canadian Pacific’s mainline through Maine. TOP: A westbound freight changes crews at the station during the wee nighttime hours in January 1981. RIGHT: Eastbound container train No. 949 performs a crew change at the station the following morning. BELOW: Many CP freights used four to five-unit combinations of MLW C424s and RS18s. Heavier road trains like Extra 4560 East would often utilize the big six-axle M630s. These trains could be heard long be- fore they could be seen.
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