DT&I Fan and I headed down to Falmouth for our fix from Maine Modelworks. On the way we sighted DJ-1 sitting on the freight main at Walnut, CPF185. We figured we'd swing by the crossing near there and see what's up. The signals were all red and the switch lined for the main, but no movement. We could hear the units idling, but the train was around the curve and out of sight. After a bit of a wait and a harmless visit from Cumberland's finest, we eventually decided it was time to move on to the store because nothing was happening on the scanner either. Turns out there may have been a crew change in the works. A long wait.
A conversation with another customer at the store led us to believe the wait at CPF 185 had something to do with a local running up to Brunswick. Apparently we had just missed it before our stop there before. It sounded like a mission so we headed that way up Route 1 (bypassing Freeport on 295 of course). I've never seen GRS action in Brunswick and we had a chance here.
We drove down to the town end of the interchange to see what turned out to be our local readying to leave. We headed back down to the other end through the traffic and we camped out at the crossing. After plenty of sitting and rainfall it finally started to crank up and move.
Other than seeing some cement cars that don't normally make it over our way we did see one of the Maine Eastern passenger cars headed south. No word on why but it could be heading anywhere for some work or even a new owner. The Rockland passenger trains ought to be starting up fairly soon. It's not a caboose but close enough for me.
On the way home we visited "the junctions" and I just couldn't pass up another shot of an ex-Southern GP40X (now GP40-3 "master" unit) sitting at Lewiston Jct. Those flared radiators just look cool.
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