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Central Maine & Quebec to take over route of Maine Eastern
Re the caption: If you’re looking for Farnham in Maine I think you’ll probably have better luck finding it in Quebec.
CMQ management does have a long history of being pro-passenger and also of working well with state and local governments.
CM&Q is the railroad that replaced MM&A. I’m thinking it’s a positive sign that CM&Q is interested in growing when MM&A was shrinking and having difficulty staying afloat.
A number of posters here were convinced that Fortress Investment Group, the people behind CM&Q, were likely to be terrible asset strippers or something equally cynical. I’ve (as I’ve said before rather a lot… sorry…) been fairly impressed with what they’re doing in Florida (All Aboard Florida) and I’m way more positive about CM&Q than the consensus here.
I think cmq will be a worthy operator but not anywhere as good a ME and at least they could have spared there least rag-tag b23’s 2003 and 2006 insted of the ratty looking 2001 and 2002.