| Railroad Name: | Woodland Rail |
| Locale: | Maine, New Brunswick |
| Start Year: | 2012 |
| Hq City: | Baileyville, Maine |
Woodland Rail, LLC is a non-carrier railroad company that owns an 11.83miles rail line located in the state of Maine and province of New Brunswick. It was formed in 2012 as a subsidiary company of Woodland Pulp, LLC, which owns and operates a pulp mill in the Woodland neighborhood of the town of Baileyville, Maine.
Woodland Rail connects a pulp mill in Baileyville, Maine with the Milltown Spur, owned by the New Brunswick Southern Railway (NBSR), at the midpoint of the Salmon Falls Railroad Bridge, which crosses the St. Croix River and the Canada–US border between Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick.
Woodland Rail has contracted Eastern Maine Railway to operate the line.
In 2012 Woodland Rail, LLC was formed by its owner Woodland Pulp, LLC to purchase the Calais Industrial Track (former Calais Branch and Woodland Spur) from Pan Am Railways between Calais and Baileyville. This line was originally operated by the Maine Central Railroad (MEC) and later by Guilford Transportation Industries (GTI).
GTI had abandoned the Calais Branch west of Saint Croix Junction in 1985, leaving the remaining active rail line with a connection to Canadian Pacific Railway in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. The CP line to St. Stephen was sold to New Brunswick Southern Railway (NBSR) in 1995.
Both ends of the line owned by Woodland Rail are located in the U.S.; the middle section measuring 5.08miles is located in Canada. The line runs in the St Croix River valley, crossing the Canada–US border at three locations.
Another 12.6miles of the former Calais Branch between St. Croix Junction and Ayers Junction remains in place (see rail banking) but is not in service. This track is currently owned by the Maine Department of Transportation in order to preserve the rail infrastructure should service be restored to the port of Eastport.
The line then continues northwest for 5.08miles in New Brunswick to Mohannes, New Brunswick where it crosses back to the south (west) bank of the St. Croix River at Woodland Junction on the Sprague Falls Railroad Bridge.
At Woodland Junction, an industrial spur runs south for 1miles to serve the Woodland Pulp, LLC thermo-mechanical pulp mill in Baileyville. The Woodland Spur continues northwest for 1miles to the current end of track at an oriented strand board mill.