Keywords: New Brunswick Railroad
Item 13632
New Brunswick and Canadian Railroad Station, Houlton, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 10910
New Brunswick and Canada Railroad steam engine, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Houlton; St. John Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
Exhibit
The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.
Site Page
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads
"Maine Railroads Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Station, New Sweden, 1918Nylander Museum In 1858 Aroostook County Maine had a great chance of…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"During the construction of the new station, William S. Newell, the president of B.I.W., gave the station a weather vane depicting a destroyer at the…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
