When we reach Wiscasset...

[Bill Reidy]

...I understand we will be adopting the new technology described in this article so Amtrak's Downeaster can depart the Rockland branch at Wiscasset and terminate at Sheepscot Station.

[Bill Baskerville]

With the new technology the Downeaster can proceed all the way to TBS.

[Graham Buxton]

With the new technology the Downeaster can proceed all the way to TBS.

Weeeell, the Downeaster might just have a problem at the Trout Brook Bridge! 

[Bob Holmes]

Still...pretty amazing technology!!

[Bill Reidy]

With the new technology the Downeaster can proceed all the way to TBS.

Weeeell, the Downeaster might just have a problem at the Trout Brook Bridge! 

Trout Brook bridge is a good point, which I didn't think of.  I said Sheepscot because some of the curves at Cockeye Curve and on the Mountain Extension would pose an equal challenge, I suspect.

Still...pretty amazing technology!!

It is amazing technology.  At first blush, my immediate thought was I would trust this about as far as I do(n't) for self-driving cars.  But in the context of Swiss railway engineering and application, this does look brilliant.

[Bill Baskerville]

Well, at least they would clear the ROW across the school ball field and install the 218 crossing thereby saving us a ton of money when we get to that point.