Allagash Railway by Mike Confalone

Late winter in the state of Maine during the early 1980s.

March 1985 part of the Guilford family with power from sister roads, Delaware & Hudson, Boston & Maine and the Maine Central freely mixed with AGR’s own power. Since 2020 backdated to 1984.

Oxford County

Route

Northern Division Mainline

• North Staging (Allagash/Jackman)
• Madrid Yard (Division Point)

Kennebec Subdivision

• Bear Hil
• New Portland Junction – Junction for New Portland Branch for St. Regis Pulp Mill
• Atlantic Junction
• New Sharon – passing siding, a common location for meets. Sandy River Farm & Building Supply, Franklin County Feeds (the largest customer)
• South Staging (Kennebec Junction / MEC)

Androscoggin Subdivision

• Sandy River Bridge
• Sandy River Junction (for White Mountain Branch)
• Weld – Osgood Grain
• Knox Farm
• Spruce
• Carthage, ME – A lonely outpost with an “International Paper” wood yard for pulpwood and a team track for lumber transload. Top of the northbound grade, heavy helper district in the days of steam. A long passing track starts here and runs to Holman Summit. The old station is used by the maintenance of way crews.
• Holman Summit
• East Dixfield Paper Mill
• Low-Level Staging (Dixfield/Bethel/CN)

White Mountain Branch (Oxford County)

• White Mountain Junction
• Andover
• East Andover
• North Rumford (Power plant and Rumford Point)

New Portland Branch

• St. Regis Pulp Mill

Martin Spur

Trains

• CPIP – Canadian Pacific-International Paper. Jackman (North end staging)
• BM2 – Bethel-Madrid (28 cars?)
• MK1
• AGWA (Allagash-Waterville)
• V1
• JABE –
• MA3 – East Dixfield Turn
• MA4 – Carthage Turn
• MABE (Madrid-Bethel)
• MAME (Madrid-Mechanicville) “The Paper Train” – Box cars of finished paper from online paper mills at the Allagash, Dixfield and Bearning Mills for the Delaware & Hudson at Mechanicville and to Conrail at Rotterdam Junction
• N1 New Sharon Switcher
• P1 New Portland Switcher
• Extra “The Lumberjack” – a dedciated train of pulpwood and woodchips for the big Internatonal Papermill at Dixfield. Loaded at the chip mill at Dead River siding.
• Coal Extra – Originates on Conrail in Western Pennsylvania to Central Maine Power Station at Bethel (16 Hoppers)

Locomotives

Reporting Mark	No.	Class	Livery	Model
AGR	103
AGR	105	ALCO S2
AGR	106
AGR	107	ALCO S2
AGR	203		Allagash Green
AGR			Allagash Yellow
AGR	200	M420	Allagash Bicentennial
AGR	202	GP38	Allagash Yellow later… Spruce Green body, including fuel tank and trucks, larger Allagash lettering, modern Allagash logo, black numbers on white number boards and all-yellow handrails and stanchions.
AGR	204	GP38	Spruce Green body, including fuel tank and trucks, larger Allagash lettering, modern Allagash logo, black numbers on white number boards and all-yellow handrails and stanchions.
AGR	206	M420	Allagash Yellow. The first units were delivered in the Dulux Gold/Spruce Green paint scheme, with green on the roof and top of the nose.
AGR	208	C420	Allagash Yellow
AGR	209	GP38	Allagash Green
AGR	210	GP38	Allagash Green
AGR	211	GP38
AGR	212	GP38	Allagash Green
AGR	213		Allagash Yellow
AGR	214		Allagash Yellow
AGR	215		Allagash Yellow
AGR	220		Allagash Yellow
AGR	240
AGR	241		Allagash Green
AGR	250	ALCO C-425	Allagash Yellow
AGR	251	ALCO C-425	Allagash Yellow
AGR	302		Allagash Yellow
AGR	303	RS3	Allagash Green
AGR	307	RS3
AGR	405	EMD F3	Allagash Green
AGR	425	C-425	The only Guilford Grey. Formerly Penn Central 2418
AGR	430		Allagash Yellow
AGR	500	GP7	Allagash Green
AGR	502	GP7	Allagash Green
AGR	506	GP7	Allagash Green
AGR	507	GP7u	Allagash Green
AGR	508	GP7u	Allagash Solid Green with a yellow nose
AGR	509	GP9	Allagash Green
AGR	510	GP9	Allagash Green
AGR	512	GP9	Allagash Yellow
AGR	513	GP9	Allagash Green
AGR	602	F7		Athearn Genesis, sold in April 2020
AGR	607
AGR	700	RS32	Allagash Green
AGR	701	RS32	Allagash Green
AGR	702	ALCO RS36	Allagash Green
AGR	704	ALCO RS11
AGR	800	EMD SW8
AGR	801	EMD SW8
AGR	2059	C430	Former Conrail, former Penn Central
AGR	7605	RS11	Former Conrail
BM	211	EMD GP38	Boston & Maine Blue
BM	303
BM	1118	EMD SW1	Boston & Maine Blue
DH	409	ALCO C-420	Leigh Valley Red
DH	420	ALCO C-420	Atlas model, Guilford Grey
DH	7401		Delaware & Hudson Blue
DH	7413		Delaware & Hudson Blue
MEC	226	GE U25B	Maine Central Harvest Gold, since February 2012, Guilford Grey.
MEC	262	EMD GP38	MEC Harvest Gold
MEC	290		Maine Central Ex D&H Grey
MEC	293	GE U23B	Guilford Grey
MEC	402	GE U18B	Maine Central Harvest Gold
MEC	404	GE U18B	Maine Central Harvest Gold
MEC	406	GE U18B	Guilford Grey
MEC	407	GE U18B	Maine Central Harvest Gold
MEC	408	GE U18B	Guilford Grey
MEC	572	EMD GP7	Maine Central Maroon
MEC	577	EMD GP7	Maine Central Harvest Gold
OCTY	108	ALCO S6	Oxford County, former AGR 108
OCTY	109	ALCO S6	Oxford County, former AGR 109
OCTY	110	ALCO S6	Oxford County, former AGR 110
OCTY	301	ALSO RS3	Oxford County, former AGR 301
OCTY	302		Oxford County
OCTY	305	ALSO RS3	Oxford County, former AGR 305
OCTY	307	ALCO RS3	Oxford County, former BN/SP&S
OCTY	703	ALCO RS11	Oxford County, former AGR 703, PC 7605

Freight Cars

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Reporting Mark	Number	Road/Company	Colour	Prototype	HO Scale	N Scale
ACFX	46230	Engelhard	White	ACF 4650 Cubic Foot 3-Bay Covered Hopper	Intermountain	Intermountain 67062-01 [T]
ACFX	46590	Continental Grain Company	Greys		Accurail
ACFX	47746	Cargill	Green			Intermountain 10-71-20 [Trovestar]
ACL	1503_	Atlantic Coast Line		Another Cushioned Load Athearn	Athearn
ACL	88905	Atlantic Coast Line	Grey	GATC 2600 Airslide Covered Hopper	Athearn	Athearn
AGR	12	Allagash
AGR	18	Allagash		Caboose
AGR	20	Allagash	Yellow	Standard NE6 Caboose
AGR	24	Allagash	Red	Wide-Vision Caboose
AGR	40	Allagash	Yellow	Wide-Vision Caboose
AGR	56	Allagash	Yellow	Bay Window Caboose
AGR	817	Allagash	Green	Gondola	Tangent
AGR	829	Allagash		Gondola
AGR	1021	Allagash		Hopper
AGR	1033	Allagash		Woodchip Hopper
AGR	1500	Allagash	Black	100T 3-Bay Hopper
AGR	1503	Allagash	Black	100T 3-Bay Hopper
AGR	1510	Allagash	Black	100T 3-Bay Hopper
AGR	1522	Allagash	Black	100T 3-Bay Hopper
AGR	1523	Allagash	Black	100T 3-Bay Hopper
AGR	2105	Allagash		Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2118	Allagash		Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2125	Allagash	Box Car Red	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2144	Allagash		Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2180	Allagash		Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2201	Allagash	Yellow	Pulpwood. Only model in yellow, now sold in September 2021 via eBay.
AGR	2202	Allagash	Black	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2207	Allagash	Black	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2211	Allagash	Black	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2301	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2312	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2341	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2343	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2344	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2352	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2353	Allagash		Woodchip?
AGR	2358	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2360	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2363	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2369	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2372	Allagash	Box Car Red	Pulpwood
AGR	2411	Allagash	Black	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2420	Allagash	Box Car Red	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2456	Allagash	Box Car Red	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2489	Allagash	Box Car Red	Woodchip Hopper
AGR	2589	Allagash	Green	40′ Box Car
AGR	2724	Allagash	Green	40′ Box Car
AGR	3021	Allagash	Box Car Red
AGR	3024	Allagash	Box Car Red	50′ Box Car
AGR	3044	Allagash	Box Car Red
AGR	3401	Allagash	Green	PS-1 Box Car
AGR	3442	Allagash	Green	PS-1 Box Car
AGR	3444	Allagash	Green	PS-1 Box Car
AGR	4145	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4223	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4281	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4412	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4434	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4478	Allagash	Yellow	Cushion Service
AGR	4612	Allagash	Guilford White	Box Car	Modified Intermountain
AGR	5414	Allagash	Red?	ACF Covered Hopper	Intermountain
AGR	6125	Allagash		Pulpwood
AGR	9800			Hopper
AMCX	6549	Amoco	Grey	ACF 5701 Cu Ft Centerflow Plastics 4-Bay Covered Hopper		Atlas Master N 50001464 ★
B&O	602038				Accurail
BAR	10172	Bangor & Aroostook	Blue, White, Red	50′ Single-Door Boxcar	Atlas Trainman 751-50001593	Atlas 50 001 593 ★
BCIT	871203?	British Columbia Railway	Green	72′ Centerbeam Flatcar	Walthers 932-4118
BM	54**	Boston & Maine	Blue	Evans 4780 Covered Hopper	ExactRail	Micro-Trains
BM	7056	Boston & Maine	Black	AAR 70-Ton Offset-Side 3-Bay Hopper	Accurail
BM	70003	Boston & Maine	Blue	ACFI. 5900 Series 50′ Welded-Side Double Door Steel Boxcars… or Boxcar, 50 Foot, X41?	Accurail	Microtrains?
BM	78169	Boston & Maine	Blue	Sieco 50′ Box Car	Athearn Genisis	Athearn 10541 ★
BM	80000	Boston & Maine	Blue	FMC 50′ Box Car		Athearn
BM	80017	Boston & Maine	Blue	FMC 50′ Box Car		Athearn
BN	219***	Burlington Northern	Green	Evans-USRE 5277 Box Car	ExactRail	ExactRail
C&O	2187	Chesapeake & Ohio	White	PS2 Three Bay Covered Hopper	Athearn	Athearn 11359 [T]
CCR	6431	Corinth & Counce	Blue	FMC 50′ Box Car	Athearn 92525	Fox Valley
CNW	172458	Chicago North Western	Green	Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, ACF 4650	Accurail	Intermountain [Trovestar Search]
CNW	753811	Chicago North Western	Green
CP	81216	Canadian Pacific	Green Script	NSC Newsprint Box Car		Micro-Trains?
CP	124082	CP Rail	Red Multimark	50′
CP	200070	CP Rail	Red Multimark	5300 Series 50′ Combination Door	Accurail?	Micro-Trains?
CP	269546	Canadian Pacific		40′ PS1
CP	380559	Canadian Pacific	Black	Slab Side Hopper Car	TrueLine Trains 300333
CP	381111	CP Rail	Black	Slab Side Hopper Car	TrueLine Trains	?
CPCX	7059	Chevron Phillips Chemical	Grey	ACF 5701 Covered Hopper	Atlas	Atlas 50 002 463 [Trovestar]
CPI	85010	CP Rail	Green Multimark	NSC Newsprint 50′ Box Car	Life-Like Proto 1000	True Line Trains
CPI	85154	CP Rail	Green Multimark	NSC Newsprint 50′ Box Car	Life-Like Proto 1000	True Line Trains
CPI	85250	CP Rail	Green Multimark	NSC Newsprint 50′ Box Car	Life-Like Proto 1000	True Line Trains
CPI	85490	CP Rail	Green Multimark	NSC Newsprint 50′ Box Car	Life-Like Proto 1000	True Line Trains
CPI	86190	CP Rail	Green Multimark	NSC Newsprint 50′ Box Car	Life-Like Proto 1000	True Line Trains
CN	378235	Canadian National	White	NSC 59′ Cylindrical Hopper	Walthers 910-7176
CR	208262	Conrail	Box Car Red	60′?
CR	266873	Conrail	Box Car Red	50′ 5077 Evans Smooth Side Boxcars
CR	437268	Conrail	Box Car Red	70-Ton 12-Panel 3-Bay Hopper	Bowser 6-41246
CR	471333	Conrail	Box Car Red	100 Ton 45 Foot Triple Hopper		Micro-Trains
CR	471336	Conrail	Box Car Red	100 Ton 45 Foot Triple Hopper	Bowser	Micro-Trains
CR	483499	Conrail	Box Car Red	100 Ton 45 Foot Triple Hopper
CR	490917	Conrail	Box Car Red	100 Ton 45 Foot Triple Hopper
CR	876261	Conrail	White	PS 260 2-Bay Covered Hopper	Athearn 95525	Athearn
CR	885217	Conrail		ACF cylindrical covered hopper	Atlas	Bowser
DH	27203	Delaware & Hudson	Yellow		Branchline
DH	29161	Delaware & Hudson	Yellow	50′ PS-1 Roofwalk removed, ladder cut down	Kadee
DH	35797	Delaware & Hudson		Extended Vision Cupola Caboose	Atlas 150-19263	Atlas 30268 ★
DHNY	50000	Delaware & Hudson	Blue & White	50 Foot, PS-1 Box Car	Kadee 6339	Athearn
DUPX	37234	Dupont	Orange	ACF 5701 4-Bay Hopper	Atlas 20 000 001	Atlas 50 000 012 ★
EL	21393	Erie Lackawanna	White	ACF 2790 2-Bay Covered Hopper	Athearn 93912	Atlas 3902
EL	33828	Erie Lackawanna	Black	70-Ton Hopper Car		Bluford Shops
EL	33858	Erie Lackawanna	Black	70-Ton Hopper Car	Bowser	Bluford Shops
EL	70550	Erie Lackawanna		AAR 1944 Box Car		InterMountain ★
ELTX	116	Soltex Polymer	White	ACF 5701 Covered Hopper, 4-Bay, ACF Centerflow	Atlas 20000009	Atlas 50000020 ★
ELTX	14_	Soltex Polymer	White	ACF 5701 Covered Hopper, 4-Bay, ACF Centerflow
FGEX	798219	Fruit Growers Express	Yellow	50′ FGE Insulated Boxcar	Walther’s 910-2004
FLIX	612	COOP	Grey	Pullman-Standard PS-2CD 4750 Covered Hopper	Tangent 11247-01
GATX	27494		Black	20,700 Gallon Non-Insulated Type 20 Saddles Tank Car	Atlas 20 000 270	Atlas 50 000 475 [Trovestar]
GATX	293765			Tank Car
GTW	113926	Grand Trunk Western	White	Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, PS-2 2893	Athearn	Athearn 11442 ⓣ
GTW	315222	Grand Trunk Western	Blue	P-S Covered Hopper	Tangent Scale Models
ICG	562864	Illinois Central Gulf		50′ Boxcar w/8′ Superior Door	Accurail 5551	Micro-Trains
LEF	1153	Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion	Yellow	Evans-USRE 5277 Boxcar	ExactRail	ExactRail
MEC	2481	Grey		PS2 Covered Hopper		Atlas
MEC	31128
MEC	32127			FMC 5347		Athearn 24205 [Trovestar]
MILW	100501	Milwaukee Road – America’s Resourceful Railroad	Yellow	Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, PS-2		Intermountain 672249-02 [Trovestar]
MNS	49771			Boxcar
NAHX	93877			North American Car Corp. PD3000
NAHX	94105		Grey	Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, NACC PD 3000	Spring Mills Depot 13110-07	Trainworx ★
NATX	16160
MNJ	120679	Middletown & New Jersey	Blue	50′ Berwick Boxcar		Athearn
MP	250354	Missouri Pacific Lines	Brown	50′ Gunderson 5200		ExactRail EN-50811-1 ★
NW	44025	Norfolk and Western	Black	40′ PS-1 Box Car	Kadee
NW	693516	Norfolk and Western		50′ General American RBL Box Car	Moloco	Atlas
NSL	100044	St. Lawrence and Raquette River	Blue	50′ Berwick box car	Branchline	[Trovestar]
MTW	4136	Marinette Tomahawk & Western	Green	FMC 5347 Boxcar		Athearn 11185 / 11214 [Trovestar / Trovestar]
PC	473972	Penn Central	Black	100-ton coal hopper	Bowser
PC	479452	Penn Central		100-ton coal hopper	Bowser
PC	837840	Penn Central		Flexi-Flo	Rapido
PTLX	33013	Cargill	Green	Pullman-Standard PS-2CD 4750 Covered Hopper		Exact-Rail
PTLX	120284	General Electric Railcar Services	Black	50′ RTC 20900 Gal GS Tank Car	Athearn 40-73911	Athearn
PROX	74128	PROCOR	Black	23,000 Gallon Funnel-Flow Tank Car	Walthers 932-7264
PRR	223380	Pennsylvania	Black	3-Bay Hoppper	Bowser 6-40660
RBOX	34411	RailBox	Yellow
RBOX	34639			Boxcar, 50 Foot, FMC, 5347	Athearn	Athearn
RDG	__427	Reading	Black	3-Bay Hopper
SOO	18452	Soo Line	White	Soo Line-Built 7-Post Boxcar w/Diagonal-Panel Roof Boxcar	Fox Valley Models 30005	Fox Valley Models
SOU	140914	Southern	Brown	Flat Car
SOU	140915	Southern	Brown	Flat Car
SPFE	452811	Southern Pacific		Pacific Fruit Express reefer Reefer, 57 Foot, Mechanical, PC&F R-70-20	Intermountain	Athearn
TLDX	578?	Cargill	Yellow	Pullman-Standard PS-2CD 4427 Covered Hopper		Exact-Rail
TLDX	7529	Cargill	Yellow	Covered Hopper, 3-Bay, PS-2-CD 4427	Proto 2000	Athearn
TP	781199	Missouri Pacific	Brown		3-Bay Hopper
TSBY	4949	Tuscola & Saginaw Bay		3-Bay ACF4650 Center Flow Hopper	Atlas
	506397	Southern
	98042	Southern		3-Bay ACF Centerflow 3560
UELX	10023	ADM
UP	273182	Union Pacific		72′ Centerbeam Flat Car	Walthers 932-4123
UTLX	14855		White	23,000 Gallon Funnel Flow Tank Car	Walthers 932-7263
UTLX	25495			16,000 Gallon Funnel Flow Tank Car	3-Bay Hopper	–
VCY	142022	Golden West Service	Blue	60′ FMC Boxcar
V&O	38671	V&O Appalachian Lines	Blue	PS 5344 Cu.ft. Single-Door Box Car		Fox Valley 81253 ★
WM	602436	Chessie System	Yellow	ACF 4650 Covered 3-Bay Centerflow Hopper		Intermountain 67006-08 ★
WM	602444	Chessie System	Yellow	ACF 4650 Covered 3-Bay Centerflow Hopper		Intermountain 67006-15 ★
X77		Allagash	Green	Plough

More Information

• Confalone, Mike. Allagash Story Volume 1: Conceiving, Designing, and Building the Layout. Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine, 2014.
• Confalone, Mike. Allagash Story Volume 2: Planning and Building the Rolling Stock Roster. Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine, 2014.
• Confalone, Mike. Allagash Story Volume 3: Planning Prototype Operations. Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine, 2014.
• Confalone, Mike. Allagash Story Volume 4: Bringing the Layout to Life. Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine, 2014.
• Confalone, Mike. “The Ultimate Allagash Railway Tour.” Model Railroad Hobbyist, September 2022.