Canadian Pacific has purchased the CM&Q according to tthe local TV station.
Gunny
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https://wgme.com/news/local/ca...e-and-quebec-railway
Goodbye Blue Barns...
Wasn't this a previously abandoned division of CP?
I think so.
Mike W. posted:Wasn't this a previously abandoned division of CP?
Not abandoned. CP sold what is now CMQ to Iron Road back in 1995. Iron Road went bankrupt and Ed Burkhardt of Wisconsin Central “fame” purchased the property naming the new railroad Montreal, Maine and Atlantic. Following the Lac Megantic disaster; MMA filed for bankruptcy and Fortress bought the property with the new name being Central Maine and Quebec.
My former employer has a plant site at Magog, PQ that is served by CMQ and of all the various railroad entities I dealt with at that site; CMQ was the best.
There are a number of very good railroaders with CMQ and I am hopeful CP realizes this as well and retains the good folks.
Curt
1. Will CP have to go through the "Sirf Board" and Transport Canada to get this approved?
2. Will CP build and open container facilities at one or both Atlantic ports?
There were plans to build a container port in Searsport ME and it got scuttled by the tree huggers after the state had built a causeway to Sears island and purchased the steel for the pier. The island is now accessible by foot only for day use.
The rail line from Bangor to Searsport is used mainly for oil trains running to northern Maine The paper mills it serve have been scrapped for the most part and very little forest products are moved by the RR.
Gunny
