KENNEBEC JOURNAL • June 25, 2023
While many residents and officials in the communities along an unused rail corridor from Brunswick to Augusta have said they would like to see trains return, a vast majority of the dozens of people who spoke at a recent public hearing believe it would be so costly it could never happen. So they want the state to pull up the railroad tracks and replace them with a 10-foot-wide trail to provide what many believe would bring significant recreational and economic benefits to the communities through which the tracks now pass. An advisory council formed by the state in November 2022 has until the end of August to make a recommendation.