Blake/New Gloucester

New Gloucester

Blake is the east end and Penny the west end of a 120 car siding in New Gloucester on rte 231 that has little around it, but is one of the few places that two long trains can meet. Blake is at 557 Intervale Rd, New Gloucester, ME 04260 43.956231, -70.268905 and Penny is in the woods with no access road at GPS coordinates 43.936072, -70.266800.

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MEC 381, B&M 340, & MEC 504 take PORU through Blake on May 15^th of 2013.
Video by John Erickson.
B&M 330 MEC 511 & MEC 503 haul PORU out of the siding at Blake on March 12^th of 2020.
Video by John Erickson.
MEC 510, 511, & 507 heading for Danville at Blake in New Gloucester with PORU on September 19^th of 2020.
Video by John Erickson.
RUPO heading west out of Penny in New Gloucester on September 24^th of 2020.
Video by John Erickson.

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Definition
Term	Defined As
Dray or Drayage	Transportation of intermodal freight over-the-road from a rail head to a customer’s facility. There are 6 types of drayage: 1. Shuttle Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit either loaded or empty from a hub to another parking lot because the railroad runs out of room at the hub. 2. Expedited Drayage: Special movement of an intermodal unit over-the-road to get it there on time. This exceptional drayage usually involves time-sensitive freight. 3. Crosstown or Inter-Carrier Drayage: Dray movement of an intermodal unit "across town" to the intermodal hub of a competing or interchange rail carrier. 4. IMX or Intra-Carrier Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier's rail hub to the same carrier's intermodal hub. An IMX dray extends the reach of an intermodal hub. 5. Door-to-door Drayage: Retail dray involving over-the-road movement of a unit to a customer location. 6. Pier Drayage: Over-the-road movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier’s rail hub to a port’s dock or pier.

Definition

Term

Defined As

Dray or Drayage

Transportation of intermodal freight over-the-road from a rail head to a customer’s facility. There are 6 types of drayage:

1. Shuttle Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit either loaded or empty from a hub to another parking lot because the railroad runs out of room at the hub.
2. Expedited Drayage: Special movement of an intermodal unit over-the-road to get it there on time. This exceptional drayage usually involves time-sensitive freight.
3. Crosstown or Inter-Carrier Drayage: Dray movement of an intermodal unit "across town" to the intermodal hub of a competing or interchange rail carrier.
4. IMX or Intra-Carrier Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier's rail hub to the same carrier's intermodal hub. An IMX dray extends the reach of an intermodal hub.
5. Door-to-door Drayage: Retail dray involving over-the-road movement of a unit to a customer location.
6. Pier Drayage: Over-the-road movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier’s rail hub to a port’s dock or pier.

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