Madison Paper Industries - Guilford customer in Maine

[DelawareAndHudson]

Another interesting location I came across while searching Guilford pictures.  This is a location that would make a good subject for a small layout or as a customer on a large® layout.  Near as I can tell from the aerial imagery of Madison, Maine, this papermill has three tracks that enter this particular building/warehouse.  A pair of tracks enter one corner of the building while a third track runs parallel to this portion of the building before entering further down.  I don't have a lot of info on this place so I am assuming at this time that this is a warehouse where finished paper rolls are loaded for shipment.  If that assumption is correct, then your primary traffic will be inbound empty paper service boxcars.  I think you could pull this off in a compressed form in a 1'x6' board although I would probably consider something 15"-18" deep and closer to 8' in length if I were building this for myself.  One other item that might appeal to some of you; it appears that this is the end of a branch giving you the chance to have a train come into view, shuffle loads and empties, and then head back the way it appears.  Here's the pictures.

 

 

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=83002&nseq=8

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=83004&nseq=7

 

 

http://maineanencyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/madiso02x.jpg

 

 

Article on sale of mills parent company.  Nice view of old mill from across the river.

 

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/madison-papers-parent-company-sold_2010-12-22.html

 

 

Somewhat fuzzy aerial from Bing Maps.  Wish this were clearer but I think you can probably get a good idea of the location from this.  There is more of the mill to the left along the river but this warehouse portion struck me as a section that would be fairly easy to model although it admittedly will lack some of the freight car variety that the main mill will have.

 

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=rfzdxp958nsm&lvl=18&dir=270&sty=o&q=Perkins%20St%20%26%20Pine%20St%2C%20Madison%2C%20ME%2004950&form=LMLTCC

 

 

Wish I knew more about this mill or could find more ground level pictures.  Hopefully someone else will have something to add.

 

 

Jason Cook

 

 

 

[DelawareAndHudson]

Found another picture.  Locomotive pulling cars from warehouse through the gate.  Corner of boxcar visible on extreme right side of the photo is sitting on the 'main'.

 

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=20312

 

 

Jason

[DanielB]

There's an industry further up the line to the north which appears to have the headshunt to the run around loop serving it on a bridge over the river. A rather interesting Street View shot can be seen at the following coordinates: 44.855002,-69.902327