Welcome aboard Amtrak Downeaster Train #683 with from Boston, Massachusetts' North Station to Brunswick, Maine! Today our train is lead by a GE Genesis P42DC locomotive pulling 5 Amfleet I coaches with an ex-EMD F40PH NPCU trailing on the rear. Our stops along the way will be Woburn-Anderson, Haverhill, Exeter, Durham-UNH, Dover, Wells, Saco-Biddeford, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, and Freeport. The Amtrak Downeaster is one of Amtrak's most unique routes when it comes to the lines it uses, as there are many different pathways that trains take. The Downeaster uses MBTA's Haverhill Line from North Station to up until the Wilmington MBTA station where it uses the MBTA Wildcat Branch to join the MBTA's Haverhill Line in Andover (Ballardville), MA. The Haverhill Line then continues up until the Massachusetts-New Hampshire state line where the trackage then joins the Pan Am Railways Main Line for the rest of the journey up until the last mile of track which is owned by the Maine Departme
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