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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:37 AM

In the same manner - if you click "view detailed map" you get a legend.  Dashed liens indicate trackage rights. 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by Convicted One on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:21 AM

Lithonia Operator
Is that southern stretch on the map for a reason?

 

If you select "interactive map" at the page you have linked to, you will get a map  that does not include the dotted portion.

Pan and zoom your view to the southern most tip of the remaining path solid line, and then switch to "satellite" view.

Notice there are tracks still in place....follow them south a short way to Danville, and you will notice the tracks you are following terminate abruptly, but there is one remaining switchleg that connects to an opposed line that has traffic visible still on it.

You can follow that line all the way to Portland and not see much railroad worthy  business until you get to Deering Junction.

Curiously, you will find a couple stretches along the way where  railroad ties have been set along the track.

I have no idea if these are new ties for replacement, or older  "store in place" removals from a bygone removal of the second main.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:19 AM

mudchicken

 

 
Flintlock76

From what of seen on map legends in the past that broken line probably indicates "track in place, but out of service."  

Yeah, you'd think they'd have a map legend explaining what's what.

 

 

 

marketing people or webmasters with common sense and and a grasp on practical reality?LaughLaughLaugh

 

 

Really!  What are they teaching kids in schools nowadays?  I learned about maps and how to read them in grade school!  We even had map drawing exercises in geography class!

Of course, that was back in the Pleistocene Era.  Wink

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:14 AM

Flintlock76

From what of seen on map legends in the past that broken line probably indicates "track in place, but out of service."  

Yeah, you'd think they'd have a map legend explaining what's what.

 

marketing people or webmasters with common sense and and a grasp on practical reality?LaughLaughLaugh

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:10 AM

MOTHBALLED

(1) STB Discontinuance of Service FD-1117 (Since 2015, traces back to 2008)

(2) The line is owned by the state of Maine, SLR just operates it. (23-24 miles)

(3) There is only one shipper on the line B&G Foods (bean processor (baked beansIck!,  near Portland), and they have an OFA on record to assist with operating costs, but it appears they are not not shipping. Not on Gennessee & Wyoming's current SDM pruning list.

NOT ABANDONED  Waiting on better days (previously CN-Grand Trunk, currently Gennessee & Wyoming) or paper mills online to come back from the dead. Because of the Discontinuance, it is not embargoed in the conventional sense.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:33 AM

From what of seen on map legends in the past that broken line probably indicates "track in place, but out of service."  

Yeah, you'd think they'd have a map legend explaining what's what.

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St. Lawrence and Atlantic
Posted by Lithonia Operator on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 9:15 AM

The other day, for the first time in a long while, I stopped in Yarmouth ME, and decided to walk over by the track and the lovely historic depot building (now a bank branch, but retaining its character very nicely).

Right away I noticed that the tracks looked abandoned; they're still there, but no sign that a train had been by anytime remotely recently. But the road crossing right there does still have signals and gates, and there is no Exempted sign for school buses.

I went to their website. You can see how the track map illustrates the route differently from Danville Junction (small yard and Pan AM interchange) south to Portland. Graphically that part looks kinda like just crossties. There is no map key.

Does that graphic representation mean "tracks are still there, but out of service?" Does it mean abandoned (I doubt this, because why would they put an abandoned line on their map?) Is this type of graphic a universally-accepted thing in the industry to denote whatever it in fact does mean?

I am wondering if it may mean "we could still go there, but it would require some repairs first, a special train, and a big bill." I am virtually certain that all the track is intact all the way to Portland; but the bridge which crosses Back Cove inlet to get on to the more urban Portland peninsula is almost certainly not up to snuff.

Is that southern stretch on the map for a reason?

Still in training.


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