McAdam is one of those places where you immediately see the glory that once was railroading. Once a hotel, canteen and customs house for Canadian Pacific trains traversing Maine on their way to St. Andrews or points west, the station stands as a museum and dwarfs everything else in the small town of McAdam. It is a glourious building to behold and while no one wants to wish life away, it make me a bit meloncholy I didn't get to see it when steam trains would simmer on the tracks outside.
Now the yard there is ruled by ex-Union Pacific GP-38-3 917, which used to work in Utah and points west in its heyday. Now it shuffles cars in the shadow of the great McAdam station, not a bad way to spend one's old age. The Newburnswick Southern's yard is just a small affair, though it is good to see active rail traffic still on this historic site.
I cannot leave this post without one last view of the great McAdam station...
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