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fogg1703 wrote:Are these cars coming from Irving?Not sure, but there have been a lot of LPG cars lately on both SEPO and EDPO, so maybe not. Lots of unused Pan Am rail sidings at LPG facilities in Maine, so hopefully with the domestic producers becoming more competitive, some of these places will start getting cars again. Just off the top of my head, there's one or two places on the Mountain Division, one on the branch at Deering Jct, one in Lewiston, one at Wells Beach, one in Augusta and one at Northern Maine Jct. Maybe some of those places are gone now, but there are probably others I'm missing as well.
markhb wrote:Now if PanAm could only see value in extending their line to the east, to the under-reconstruction container port at the former Scotia Prince terminal.Looking at the satellite, it looks like the tracks are still there although in need of a bit of work. Who owns those tracks?
bostontrainguy wrote:AFAIK all the tracks are still owned by Portland Terminal Co. PTR (I think that's the reporting mark) also still owns a good-sized chunk of land (not sure if it was originally part of Yard 1 or Yard 8) immediately west of the Casco Bay Bridge footprint and the container port tarmac, so if they wanted to run a spur onto the port facility they wouldn't have any intervening land ownership issues. An MDOT rep once told me that they'd be happy to have rail service to the container port if PanAm were to approach them about it, which implies to me that PAR hasn't gotten enough nibbles from potential container shippers to make it worthwhile to run a line there.markhb wrote:Now if PanAm could only see value in extending their line to the east, to the under-reconstruction container port at the former Scotia Prince terminal.Looking at the satellite, it looks like the tracks are still there although in need of a bit of work. Who owns those tracks?
markhb wrote:This is what Wikipedia says:bostontrainguy wrote:AFAIK all the tracks are still owned by Portland Terminal Co. PTR (I think that's the reporting mark) also still owns a good-sized chunk of land (not sure if it was originally part of Yard 1 or Yard 8) immediately west of the Casco Bay Bridge footprint and the container port tarmac, so if they wanted to run a spur onto the port facility they wouldn't have any intervening land ownership issues. An MDOT rep once told me that they'd be happy to have rail service to the container port if PanAm were to approach them about it, which implies to me that PAR hasn't gotten enough nibbles from potential container shippers to make it worthwhile to run a line there.markhb wrote:Now if PanAm could only see value in extending their line to the east, to the under-reconstruction container port at the former Scotia Prince terminal.Looking at the satellite, it looks like the tracks are still there although in need of a bit of work. Who owns those tracks?
The Portland Press Herald wrote:A large-scale boat yard could bring new life to a largely vacant part of Portland's waterfront and put the city on the map as a place to repair pleasure and commercial boats, says the businessman who wants to build it.Read more at: http://www.pressherald.com/news/sprague ... 08-24.html
Phineas Sprague Jr., president of Portland Yacht Services, met with city officials about two weeks ago to discuss his plan for Canal Landing at 40 West Commercial St.
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Sprague said he has a purchase-and-sale agreement with Pan Am Railways for about 14 acres and has come to terms on a lease agreement with Unitil, the natural gas company, for an additional 2 acres that are now fenced in and used to store propane tanks.
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The site is across from Graybar Distributors on a half-mile stretch of Commercial Street, between Benny's Fried Clams and the Casco Bay Bridge.