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Corridor Map: Boston – Portland – Brunswick (Downeaster)

CONTACT: Office of Railroad Policy and Development
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SUBJECT: High-Speed Passenger Rail, Passenger Rail
KEYWORDS: Boston, Portland, Brunswick, Northeast, New England, Massachusetts, Maine
ABSTRACT: Already a success story among state-supported passenger rail routes, the Downeaster extended rail service in 2012 to the communities of Freeport and Brunswick, ME for the first time in half a century.