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By:Dan Comick
Dates:8/1/2022 - 12/31/2025
Album Info:Photos taken on the former MEC Rockland Branch post August 1, 2022. Midcoast Railservice is a new subsidiary of New York based shortline Finger Lakes Railway.
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FGLK 2308 Westbound at New Meadows
Title:  FGLK 2308 Westbound at New Meadows
Description:  FGLK's B23-7 #2308 rolls west across the New Meadows River with a healthy ten car train of loaded cement hoppers for the CSX interchange in Brunswick. They would return to Harding's light engine and tie down until Thursday when two empties were brought up to the interchange to go east.
Photo Date:  8/16/2022  Upload Date: 8/18/2022 10:53:05 PM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 in Brunswick
Title:  FGLK 2308 in Brunswick
Description:  FGLK 2308; representing their new subsidiary "Midcoast Railservice" arrives in Brunswick, Maine with ten cement loads to leave on the interchange before heading east to Harding's light engine.
Photo Date:  8/16/2022  Upload Date: 8/18/2022 10:53:47 PM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Leaving Town
Title:  Leaving Town
Description:  FGLK 2308 heads east out of Brunswick after leaving ten loads and one empty on the interchange.
Photo Date:  9/9/2022  Upload Date: 9/11/2022 8:00:49 PM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308
Title:  FGLK 2308
Description:  FGLK 2308 heads east out of Brunswick after leaving ten loads and one empty on the interchange.
Photo Date:  9/9/2022  Upload Date: 9/11/2022 8:01:03 PM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308
Title:  FGLK 2308
Description:  Seen parked at Rockland Yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/2022  Upload Date: 9/11/2022 8:09:03 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
Rockland Yard
Title:  Rockland Yard
Description:  Ten empty hoppers sit on the left and eleven empty hoppers sit in the middle. FGLK 2308 sits on the right hooked up to the three empty hoppers it brought it from Brunswick the day before. At least ten more hoppers were at Dragon, and two perlite hoppers were on the spur at Dicaperl.
Photo Date:  9/10/2022  Upload Date: 9/11/2022 8:09:16 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
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Rockland Yard
Title:  Rockland Yard
Description:  Ten empty hoppers sit on the left and eleven empty hoppers sit in the middle. FGLK 2308 sits on the right hooked up to the three empty hoppers it brought it from Brunswick the day before. At least ten more hoppers were at Dragon, and two perlite hoppers were on the spur at Dicaperl.
Photo Date:  9/10/2022  Upload Date: 9/11/2022 8:09:27 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308
Title:  FGLK 2308
Description:  FGLK 2308, the one unit that New York based shortline Finger Lakes Railway has sent to Maine to run new subsidiary's Midcoast Railservice is seen making a runaround move at the east end of the former Maine Central yard in Rockland, Maine.
Photo Date:  10/3/2022  Upload Date: 10/18/2022 9:41:23 AM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
DPCX 317
Title:  DPCX 317
Description:  Seen in Thomaston, Maine. A good sized cut of these whale belly hoppers would be moved for storage at the Rockland Station to make room in the Dragon facility for upcoming shipments of coke by rail, something that hasn't been seen regularly in decades.
Photo Date:  10/3/2022  Upload Date: 10/18/2022 9:41:56 AM
Location:  Thomaston, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
DPCX 308
Title:  DPCX 308
Description:  Seen in Thomaston, Maine. A good sized cut of these whale belly hoppers would be moved for storage at the Rockland Station to make room in the Dragon facility for upcoming shipments of coke by rail, something that hasn't been seen regularly in decades.
Photo Date:  10/3/2022  Upload Date: 10/18/2022 9:42:21 AM
Location:  Thomaston, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  79   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Crosses Butler Rd. in Thomaston
Title:  FGLK 2308 Crosses Butler Rd. in Thomaston
Description:  FGLK 2308 takes a cut of fifteen whale belly hoppers that were retired at the beginning of this year up to Rockland Yard. They had been stored at Dragon but will be relocated shortly to the track leading up to the station in Rockland to ,make room in Dragon for upcoming shipments of petroleum coke by rail, something that hasn't been seen regularly in decades. Dragon Cement's buildings can be seen in the distance just to the right of the locomotive.
Photo Date:  10/3/2022  Upload Date: 10/18/2022 9:45:05 AM
Location:  Thomaston, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
Arriving at Rockland Yard
Title:  Arriving at Rockland Yard
Description:  FGLK 2308 has pulled fifteen on Dragon's old whale belly covered hoppers out of their plant and will store them for a few days in the yard before relocating them again to be stored on the track leading up to the station just east of the yard a few days later.
Photo Date:  10/3/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:13:10 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Depot St. in Waldoboro
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Depot St. in Waldoboro
Description:  FGLK 2308 leads a 28 car eastbound for Rockland, seen here starting to climb through Waldoboro against the evening sun.
Photo Date:  10/4/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:12:50 PM
Location:  Waldoboro, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  85   Comments: 0
Passing through Bath
Title:  Passing through Bath
Description:  Another cool thing about railfanning the Rockland Branch in the past few months is that between slower trips down with heavier trains and Midcoast often staying in town a bit longer to perform a "live interchange" with Pan Am, the eastbound runs have often been a bit later in the day allowing for good light at spots you couldnt really get as well during the CMQ/CP days. Here RB-2 with FGLK 2308 for power slowly winds its way through Bath, Maine approaching Centre Street with the Chocolate Church to the right, a landmark in Bath. They had the second longest train the Rockland Branch has seen in years at just shy of 30 cars. As of late October another B23-7; FGLK 2310 has arrived in Rockland so hopefully the long hood forward trips westbound will become a thing of the past.
Photo Date:  10/4/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:02:48 PM
Location:  Bath, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
The Chocolate Church
Title:  The Chocolate Church
Description:  Another cool thing about railfanning the Rockland Branch in the past few months is that between slower trips down with heavier trains and Midcoast often staying in town a bit longer to perform a "live interchange" with Pan Am, the eastbound runs have often been a bit later in the day allowing for good light at spots you couldnt really get as well during the CMQ/CP days. Here RB-2 with FGLK 2308 for power slowly winds its way through Bath, Maine approaching Centre Street with the Chocolate Church to the right, a landmark in Bath. They had the second longest train the Rockland Branch has seen in years at just shy of 30 cars. As of late October another B23-7; FGLK 2310 has arrived in Rockland so hopefully the long hood forward trips westbound will become a thing of the past.
Photo Date:  10/4/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:03:08 PM
Location:  Bath, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  125   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 in Wiscasset
Title:  FGLK 2308 in Wiscasset
Description:  Landmark restaurant Red's Eats has closed for the season but Wiscasset is still a busy little town, temporarily stopped while FGLK 2308 leads a long 28 car eastbound RB-2 through town.
Photo Date:  10/4/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:04:50 PM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Damariscotta Mills
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Damariscotta Mills
Description:  A 28 car RB-2 with FGLK 2308 for power passes through Damariscotta Mills, on the borderline on Newcastle and Nobleboro on the former MEC Rockland Branch.
Photo Date:  10/4/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 11:05:13 PM
Location:  Newcastle, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  64   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 at Rock Junction
Title:  FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 at Rock Junction
Description:  RB-2 shoves eight inbound cement loads onto the Lower Road in Brunswick, Maine before waiting for CSX to come up for a live interchange.
Photo Date:  3/21/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 9:55:15 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  81   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Bath
Title:  FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Bath
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2310 and eight loads is seen heading west toward Washington St. in Bath, Maine passing one of the only few signals on the former MEC Rockland Branch, guarding the Carleton Bridge over the Kennebec River.
Photo Date:  3/21/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 9:58:19 AM
Location:  Bath, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
RB-2 at Old Bath Rd.
Title:  RB-2 at Old Bath Rd.
Description:  The sun makes its first appearance of the morning as RB-2 is about to finish the westbound leg of their trip to Brunswick, seen with FGLK 2310 and eight cement loads just east of Cook's Corner in Brunswick, Maine.
Photo Date:  3/21/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 9:55:47 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  58   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Woolwich
Title:  FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Woolwich
Description:  RB-2 chugs upgrade in Woolwich with eight loads, just after crossing the Nequasset River on their westbound trip to Brunswick.
Photo Date:  3/21/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 9:58:35 AM
Location:  Woolwich, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 in Newcastle
Title:  FGLK 2310 in Newcastle
Description:  RB-2 heads west past the old MEC depot in Newcastle, Maine with six cement loads for CSX in Brunswick.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 9:46:46 AM
Location:  Newcastle, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
RB-2 on the Causeway
Title:  RB-2 on the Causeway
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2310 and six loads approaches Rt. 1 in Wiscasset, Maine on a cloudy early spring morning.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:20:15 AM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
RB-2 on the Causeway
Title:  RB-2 on the Causeway
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2310 and six loads approaches Rt. 1 in Wiscasset, Maine on a cloudy early spring morning.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:20:33 AM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Wiscasset
Title:  FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Wiscasset
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2310 and six loads approaches Rt. 1 in Wiscasset, Maine on a cloudy early spring morning. In a few months this town will be bumper to bumper traffic as this is a popular tourist area.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:22:23 AM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Wiscasset
Title:  FGLK 2310 Leads RB-2 in Wiscasset
Description:  FGLK 2310 and six loads has crossed Rt. 1 in Wiscasset and prepares to climb westbound toward Bath on a scenic part of the former Maine Central Rockland Branch.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:22:39 AM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 in Brunswick
Title:  FGLK 2310 in Brunswick
Description:  PO-3 has left nine empties in the old yard and turns the engine on the wye while RB-2 heads light engine down the controlled siding to get the empties.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:07:36 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
Live Interchange
Title:  Live Interchange
Description:  PO-3 has left nine empties in the old yard and turns the engine on the wye while RB-2 heads light engine down the controlled siding to get the empties.
Photo Date:  3/28/2023  Upload Date: 4/10/2023 10:07:54 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
Rockland Yard
Title:  Rockland Yard
Description:  It's 9am and the crew boards their power and heads off the lead to the roundhouse at the former Maine Central yard in Rockland. They will run light engines down to the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston (the line's largest customer) and then head west to Brunswick.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:30:53 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
RB-2 at Rockland Yard
Title:  RB-2 at Rockland Yard
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 heads off the lead to the roundhouse at the former Maine Central yard in Rockland. They will run light engines down to the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston (the line's largest customer) and then head west to Brunswick.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:31:16 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
FGLK 2310 & FGLK 2308
Title:  FGLK 2310 & FGLK 2308
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 heads off the lead to the roundhouse at the former Maine Central yard in Rockland. They will run light engines down to the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston (the line's largest customer) and then head west to Brunswick.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:31:38 PM
Location:  Rockland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  FGLK 2310(B23-7)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 over George's River
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 over George's River
Description:  Six miles into their trip out of Rockland, RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 and twelve cement loads passes over George's River on the town line of Thomaston and Warren, bound for Brunswick to make the interchange with CSX.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:26:07 PM
Location:  Thomaston, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  48   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Damariscotta Mills
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Damariscotta Mills
Description:  FGLK's RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 and twelve loads passes through Damariscotta Mills on the border of Nobleboro and Newcastle, Maine on an overcast spring morning.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:26:31 PM
Location:  Newcastle, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 West in Wiscasset
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 West in Wiscasset
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 and twelve cement loads runs west along the shores of the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, Maine bound for the CSX interchange down the line in Brunswick.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:26:52 PM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  48   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 in Bath
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 in Bath
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 and twelve cement loads passes the Midcoast Federal Credit Union in Bath, Maine on an overcast spring day. The signal they are passing is to give eastbound trains clearance toward the Carleton Bridge, about a half of a mile behind the train.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:27:56 PM
Location:  Bath, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
Reversing to the Lower Road
Title:  Reversing to the Lower Road
Description:  RB-2 with FGLK 2308 - FGLK 2310 has arrived in Brunswick with their twelve cement loads, and is seen making a reverse move at CPL-17 in Brunswick to leave their cars on the start of the former MEC Lower Road main line for CSX to pick up later in the day.
Photo Date:  4/18/2023  Upload Date: 5/6/2023 1:28:18 PM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Switches American Steel & Aluminum
Title:  FGLK 2308 Switches American Steel & Aluminum
Description:  Midcoast Railservice train RB-2 with FGLK 2308 for power stops to pick up three empty steel cars at ASA's location in West Bath, Maine.
Photo Date:  7/20/2023  Upload Date: 7/27/2023 10:15:25 AM
Location:  Bath, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Brunswick Station
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Brunswick Station
Description:  RB-2 shoves their train of 5x3 back onto the Lower Road for interchange to CSX.
Photo Date:  7/20/2023  Upload Date: 7/27/2023 10:52:46 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
Crossing the Sheepscot
Title:  Crossing the Sheepscot
Description:  A later than usual eastbound RB-2 rolls east back to Rockland with a train of empty cement hoppers for Dragon in Thomaston. hey are seen on one of the many branches of the former MEC Rockland Branch; this being over the Sheepscot River in the west side of Newcastle, Maine.
Photo Date:  7/31/2023  Upload Date: 1/15/2024 11:40:41 AM
Location:  Newcastle, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2308(B23-7)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Old Rt. 1 in Waldoboro
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 at Old Rt. 1 in Waldoboro
Description:  With a long wait for a late interchange with CSX in Brunswick out of the way and just about enough time to get back to Rockland, RB-2 hustles east through the old Rt. 1 crossing in Waldoboro, Maine after some summer storms have finally cleared up with twelve empties in tow.
Photo Date:  7/31/2023  Upload Date: 8/6/2023 12:23:38 PM
Location:  Waldoboro, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  65   Comments: 0
FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 Westbound at Nobleboro
Title:  FGLK 2308 Leads RB-2 Westbound at Nobleboro
Description:  FGLK 2308 leads RB-2 with nine loaded cement hoppers west at E. Neck Rd. in Nobleboro, Maine.
Photo Date:  7/31/2023  Upload Date: 8/6/2023 12:24:10 PM
Location:  Nobleboro, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  50   Comments: 0


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