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Article: Passenger trains could roll along Kennebec on Brunswick-Augusta route.
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- Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2005
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Byline: Dan McGillvray
Jul. 9--AUGUSTA -- Seasonal passenger trains could be clanging beside long stretches of the Kennebec River between Brunswick and Augusta in two years.
"In a couple of years, absolutely. We think there's a market up there," said Gordon Fuller, vice president and chief operating officer of Morristown & Erie Railway Inc. of Morristown, N.J.
The company, operating as Maine Eastern Railroad, launched an excursion service this week between Brunswick and Rockland. That ride, 57 miles each way, takes two hours and 15 minutes.
The Brunswick-to-Augusta run, which could be a similar trip, covers 34 miles each way on a rail ...