Leeds
ST RUPO rolls on down the Rumford Branch behind three GP40s as it crosses the Dead River near Leeds, Maine. The right-of-way dates back to a Portland gauge railroad chartered in 1848 to build from Farmington to what is now Leeds Junction. Maine Central acquired the railroad in 1911 and pulled the rails north of Livermore Falls in 1974. It was a fabric of a large network of Maine Central branches that served Maine's enormous timber industry, and the paper and sawmills along the Rumford Branch remain a major source of revenue for the Maine Central's sucessors.
Leeds
ST RUPO rolls on down the Rumford Branch behind three GP40s as it crosses the Dead River near Leeds, Maine. The right-of-way dates back to a Portland gauge railroad chartered in 1848 to build from Farmington to what is now Leeds Junction. Maine Central acquired the railroad in 1911 and pulled the rails north of Livermore Falls in 1974. It was a fabric of a large network of Maine Central branches that served Maine's enormous timber industry, and the paper and sawmills along the Rumford Branch remain a major source of revenue for the Maine Central's sucessors.