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Rockland is the East end of the former Maine Central Rockland Branch line and boasts a brick station and a trans-load facility for the bulk limestone powder for Dragon Cement.

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Turning the train in Rockland meant ME 488 had to go back to the round-house turntable on July 13^th, 2011.
Video by John Erickson.

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The station can be found at 7 Union St Rockland, ME 04841 44.100787, -69.110573, and the trans-load site at 2-20 Ocean St Rockland, ME 04841 44.097434, -69.105182.

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Square or Round Tail	A square or round end of a semaphore blade usually indicating that it was an order board and indicated how and if orders were to be picked up at this station.

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