Maine Northern Railway (ex-MMA lines operated by EMR/NBSR)

fromway wrote:The NMR is inline for $12,600,000.00 for improvements to the Presque Isle and Houlton lines and the Mainline from MIllinocket to Scopan if a bill currently in Senate markup is approved. The Irvings should get the big Thank You card ready to send to Angus and Susie.

It needs it, they need a ton of new rail up that way (the recently installed CWR in Island Falls and new 115 stick rail in Oakfield. Just about everywhere north of Sherman is 10 MPH.

For those of you who need your NBSR SD70M-2 fix, I just uploaded a video of them to YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Aw21RRoXGY4

As of yesterday, lots of snow covered chip cars waiting in Oakfield for the trip south and then east.

How many weekly carloads is MNR getting from the frozen potato business in Van Buren? Are those cars going MNR-CP-PAR-CSX??

Where do the Eastbound centerbeams loaded with Certainteed product go to in NB? I don't believe they have a direct rail served facility anymore since the McAdam plant closed. Is it transload business I'm assuming? Thanks.

Some good news to end out the year: LaJoie Growers in Van Buren recently shipped out a couple of reefer loads of spuds. Must be the first load of fresh potatoes since the early 70s. Here's to the shipper's continued success!

What (or who's) reefers were used for the potato shipments? The BAR once owned a huge fleet.

UP boxes with ARMN reporting marks.

Backhaul to the West Coast. It would be ironic if the prior load was french fries from Idaho to New England - a carrier's dream!

PS Looks like some other posters beat me to the punch by a day or two... a little more info in on the Pan Am thread (Up North string)

Used to load paper into reefer vans backhauling to the Midwest... you just give 'em a rinse (clean out the blood most importantly) and set the unit to a high temp to dry it. Railroads could surely do the same but that would require a more cohesive effort.

One of the big logistical challenges with reefer traffic is servicing/repair of the reefer units. I assume that MNR has folks to call if a unit needs fuel or konks out.

roberttosh wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:21 pm Where do the Eastbound centerbeams loaded with Certainteed product go to in NB? I don't believe they have a direct rail served facility anymore since the McAdam plant closed. Is it transload business I'm assuming? Thanks.

They are now the DC for the Maritimes, these are cars that formerly came via CN.

So the former Certainteed plant is actually now the new DC?

Any news on the LP plant expansion in New Limerick? Looks like they're shifting production from OSB to siding. I wonder if that product will still move by rail?

That's what I was told by someone who is far more local. Comes in by train, out by truck.

Is anything being dropped off at the KEAG for transfer to PAR(OT-1)?