Mountain Junction
ST RUPO rolls through CPF-196 (Mountain Junction) as it arrives Portland behind a trio of GP40s. The historic Maine Central offices are located behind the parking garage on the right. Both CPF-196 and 195 (Congress Street; background) are protected by MEC-era SAs which will be replaced when CSX implements I-ETMS between Plaistow and Brunswick.
This interlocking is where the famed Mountain Division split off from the Portland Terminal and cut west across the White Mountains of New Hampshire to an interchange point with the CP at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Guilford ended operations on the Mountain Division in 1983, the same year that it bought the Boston and Maine. A roughly two-mile stretch of the former Mountain Division between the interlocking and a point west of Congress Street is known in Pan Am/CSX timetables as the Mountain Branch. It is a small, signaled stretch of territory that is used by Amtrak to reach the Portland Transportation Center.
Mountain Junction
ST RUPO rolls through CPF-196 (Mountain Junction) as it arrives Portland behind a trio of GP40s. The historic Maine Central offices are located behind the parking garage on the right. Both CPF-196 and 195 (Congress Street; background) are protected by MEC-era SAs which will be replaced when CSX implements I-ETMS between Plaistow and Brunswick.
This interlocking is where the famed Mountain Division split off from the Portland Terminal and cut west across the White Mountains of New Hampshire to an interchange point with the CP at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Guilford ended operations on the Mountain Division in 1983, the same year that it bought the Boston and Maine. A roughly two-mile stretch of the former Mountain Division between the interlocking and a point west of Congress Street is known in Pan Am/CSX timetables as the Mountain Branch. It is a small, signaled stretch of territory that is used by Amtrak to reach the Portland Transportation Center.