Waiting At Wells
After shooting POAY at Pine Point Rd we headed 20 miles south for our next shot. But after a little time and a check of the timetable we calculated that he must have gone in the hole at Saco (CPF 211) for Amtrak to run around.
And sure enough our supposition was confirmed as Boston bound Downeaster train 694 came into view here on the former Boston and Maine Portland Division rolling down Main 1 at modern day MP 226 (measured from Mattawamkeag, ME). For whatever reason this train didn't have the normal ex F40 NPCU in the lead and instead had this grungy quarter century old P42DC doing the honors, with a sister P42 on the east end trailing the standard five car Amfleet consist.
At right is the wood frame Wells Beach depot built in 1906 that resembles a home in its styling. I've not been able to find much info about this station whose design is seemingly unique among B&M depots. What I could find is that after 53 years of railroad use it was sold in February 1959 to Fuelane Corp. some five years before the last passenger train passed on its way from Portland, and it has remained in private hands since.
After 36 years passenger trains returned to these rails when Amtrak's Downeaster service commenced. But those trains don't stop here, instead calling at a modern intermodal transportation center behind me one mile to the west right off of Interstate 95.
Wells, Maine
Saturday January 22, 2022
Waiting At Wells
After shooting POAY at Pine Point Rd we headed 20 miles south for our next shot. But after a little time and a check of the timetable we calculated that he must have gone in the hole at Saco (CPF 211) for Amtrak to run around.
And sure enough our supposition was confirmed as Boston bound Downeaster train 694 came into view here on the former Boston and Maine Portland Division rolling down Main 1 at modern day MP 226 (measured from Mattawamkeag, ME). For whatever reason this train didn't have the normal ex F40 NPCU in the lead and instead had this grungy quarter century old P42DC doing the honors, with a sister P42 on the east end trailing the standard five car Amfleet consist.
At right is the wood frame Wells Beach depot built in 1906 that resembles a home in its styling. I've not been able to find much info about this station whose design is seemingly unique among B&M depots. What I could find is that after 53 years of railroad use it was sold in February 1959 to Fuelane Corp. some five years before the last passenger train passed on its way from Portland, and it has remained in private hands since.
After 36 years passenger trains returned to these rails when Amtrak's Downeaster service commenced. But those trains don't stop here, instead calling at a modern intermodal transportation center behind me one mile to the west right off of Interstate 95.
Wells, Maine
Saturday January 22, 2022