EXPANDING THE PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK BY INCREMENTS.

Florida's Brightline have submitted a formal proposal to build a faster passenger railroad between Orlando and Tampa.  The Downeaster service, operated by Amtrak on behalf of the Maine and Massachusetts Passenger Rail authorities, will be operating all but one week-day round trip between Brunswick and Boston.   Now if they could work Portland as a through station ...

We'll see if extensions of Downeaster service, seasonal or otherwise, beyond Brunswick to Rockland or to Augusta and on to Bangor, materialize.