Early ridership figures are in:
Riders making a go of train's new stops
So far, total ridership has been beating the projections of the Northern New England Rail Authority, which manages the train service.
The rail authority expected that a 100 people a day would ride the train north of Portland. In November, the average daily ridership was 177. The average dropped slightly in December, to 175 per day, as of Dec. 18.