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Railroad Passenger Service Investigation Maine Department of Transportation Maine State Library Digital Maine Transportation Documents Transportation 1-7-1974 Railroad Passenger Service Investigation Maine Department of Transportation Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalmaine.com/mdot_docs Recommended Citation Maine Department of Transportation, "Railroad Passenger Service Investigation" (1974). Transportation Documents. 74. https://digitalmaine.com/mdot_docs/74 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Transportation at Digital Maine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Transportation Documents by an authorized administrator of Digital Maine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 7"'7 0 , 1 0 ' 6} RAILROAD PASSENGER SERVICE INVESTIGATION MATERIAL IN SECTIONS I THROUGH V ASSEMBLED AND PREPARED BY THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AUGUSTA MAINE January 7, 1974 RAILROAD PASSENGER SERVICE INVESTIGATION INDEX Pages (inclusive SECTION I 1 - 8 History of Railroad Passenger Serv ice in Maine 1 - 3 Exhibit 1 - 1960 Service Routes 4 Exhibit 2 - 1961 " 5 Exhibit 3 - 1964- " 6 Exhibit 4 - 1966 " 7 Exhibit 5 - 1973 " II 8 SECTION II . 9 - 1 2 Existing Air and Bus Service 9, 10 Exhibit 6 - Intercity Bus Routes 11 Exhibit 7 - Air Transportation in Maine 12 SECTION III 13 - 52 Past and Current Efforts to Restore Rail Passenger Service 13 - 16 Exhibit 8 - Select Committee Report 17 - 32 Exhibit 9 - Maine Train Proposal 33 - 38 Exhibit 10 - Recent AMTRAK Service Requests 39 - 52 SECTION IV . 53 - 82 AMTRAK Service, ■ . 53 - 54 Exhibit 11 - Present AMTRAK Routes 55 - 63 AMTRAK - A Description 64 - 82 SECTION V 83 - 87 Auto-Train Service 83 - 87 > c SECTION I Brief History . of . ' ' Railroad Passenger Service - in Maine During the period.between the end of World War II and 1959, all rail branch line passenger service in Maine was discontinued. Also during this period, some downward adjustment in main-line service was made, but in 1960, the following routes were receiving daily service. (See Exhibit 1): Bangor and Aroostook Railroad - Van Buren-Bangor Maine Central Railroad - Vanceboro-Bangor Bangor-Augusta-Portland Bangor-Lewiston-Portland Boston and Maine Railroad - Portland-North Berwick-Poston Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad - Burnham Junction-Belfast Canadian National Railway - Portland-Bethel-Montreal Canadian Pacific Rai3.way - Vanceboro-Brownville Junction-Green- ville Another significant development of this period was the switch from conventional passenger equipment to Bud.d cars (self-propelled) between Portland and Boston. This required through passengers to change trains at Portland. • 1 In raid-1959, both the Bangor and Aroostook and Maine . Central petitioned the Public Utilities Commission for authority to abandon all passenger service on their lines. In these cases, the rail carriers introduced evidence show­ ing the following decline in patronage: ' Percentage Decline in Railroad Period Passenger Traffic Maine Central 1949-1958 65.5% Bangor and Aroostook 1949-1958 70.9% Boston and Maine 1954-1959 5 3.4% As a result of the proceedings that followed, the P.U.C. ordered . both railroads to continue a minimum amount of service for one more year. (MEC two round trips between Bangor and Portland - one to Vanceboro, and one round trip on the BAR). The Maine Central appealed the P.U.C. decision to the Maine Supreme Court. The Court concluded that Maine Central should be allowed to abandon service, and Maine Central discontinued opera­ tions effective September 5, 1960. Because of complete dependence on the Maine Central for feeder traffic and because of Maine Central schedule adjustments in the spring of 1960, the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad abandoned passenger service on March 9, 1960. Bangor and Aroostook complied with the P.U.C. Order and con­ tinued its one train per day. (See Exhibit 2 for 1961 service). 2 Because of a continuing decline in patronage and increasing financial losses, the P.U.C. authorized the Bangor and Aroostook to discontinue service on September 5, 1961. During the period 1961 through 1964, both the Boston and Maine and Canadian National made reductions in passenger service which, on the Canadian National, resulted in summer only operation between Portland and Montreal. • Routes receiving service through 1964 are shown on Exhibit 3 attached. After extensive investigation, the Interstate Commerce Com­ mission allowed the Boston and Maine to discontinue service on January 4, 1965. The Canadian National operated only five (5) round trip passenger trains during the summer of 1966. Canadian National operated its last passenger train on August 13, 1966. Routes receiving passenger service in Maine during the year 1966 are shown on Exhibit 4 attached. The Canadian Pacific operates the only scheduled rail pas­ senger service in Maine today. This service consists of one daily round trip designed to serve the Canadian cities of Montreal, P.Q. and Saint John, N.B., and is shown on Exhibit 5 attached. 3 1960 Service / 7 Gran?i,l»l« fort Fairfield 'N. Aroortook Jc. a I1 M i4 | fi 10 15 20 25 St. Stephan Pembroke ' P t r r y v' A y e rt J c . listpcjrt > E . Machiw Machiaiport . \28 Mach let v4& ^ . fS>tf<S-yr Ellsworth Fall* V Elliworth CherryfieW ^ - oo,. \ . S'.yrirvjtcr. rj-fiuckiport . *J ' U: : -Y. C i;> ;jc . ’ Waift&gian Jc. 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