From Vanceboro, EMRY's trackage runs 105 miles west to Brownville Junction with a connection along the way to Pan Am Railways (reporting mark PAR) serving southern New England at Mattawamkeag.
EMRY connects with the former Central Maine & Quebec Railway (reporting mark CMQ) at Brownville Junction, which operates part of the north-south former Bangor and Aroostook Railroad trackage in Maine, as well as the continuation of the CPR mainline from Brownville Junction west to Montreal.
The tracks between Vanceboro and Mattawamkeag were built as part of the European and North American Railway which connected Saint John, New Brunswick with Bangor, Maine, opening in 1869.
Irving’s transportation and logistics division, "In the end, the trustee went forward with a single buyer of the entire MMA railway line.
Today most locomotives hauling trains that operate over EMRY are owned and carry the reporting marks of NBSR.