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The Eastern Maine Railway Company Limited (reporting mark EMRY) is a 99.5 mi (160.1 km) U.S. short line railroad owned by the New Brunswick Railway Company, a holding company that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the industrial conglomerate J.D. Irving Limited. Together with its sister company New Brunswick ...
The Maine Eastern was the successor to Safe Handling Rail, which took over operation of the MaineDOT-owned line when the Maine Coast Railroad chose not to bid on a new contract. In September 2015, the Maine Department of Transportation selected the Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQ) to operate the line beginning on January 1, 2016. [2]
Safe Handling Rail, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1836 1844 Boston and Maine Railroad: Maine Shore Line Railroad: MEC: 1881 1888 Maine Central Railroad: Monson Railroad: 1885 1943 N/A Monson and Athens Railroad: 1881 1885 Monson Railroad: Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway: MMA MMA 2002 2004 Central Maine and ...
The railroad history of Portland, Maine, began in 1842 with the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad (PS&P). Most of the rail activity in Portland concerned agricultural goods bound for export and European import freight. But Maine's largest city also enjoyed 125 years of continuous passenger rail service from 1842 until 1967 ...
Eastern Railroad. The Eastern Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. Throughout its history, it competed with the Boston and Maine Railroad for service between the two cities, until the Boston & Maine put an end to the competition by leasing the Eastern in December 1884.
2,077 mi (3,343 km) The Boston and Maine Railroad (reporting mark BM) was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. Originally chartered in 1835, it became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983 (most of which was purchased by CSX in 2022). At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route-miles (2,438 km) on 2,481 miles (3,993 ...
The railroad of Eastern Maine Railway Company, herein called the Eastern Maine Railway, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in the southern part of Maine. The owned mileage extends southwesterly from Brewer Junction, Me., to Bucksport, Me., 18.919 miles. The Eastern Maine Railway also owns yard and side tracks totaling 4. ...
Eastern Maine Railway may refer to: Eastern Maine Railway (1882), a U.S. railway merged into the Maine Central Railroad in 1936. Eastern Maine Railway (1995), a U.S. subsidiary of the New Brunswick Railway Co.