Keywords: Rail equipment
Item 17849
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Media: Photographic print
Item 14485
Bangor & Aroostook equipment, Houlton, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
J.A. Poor and the Portland-Montreal Connection
John A. Poor's determination in 1845 to bring rail service to Maine and to make Portland the winter port for Montreal, along with the steel foundry he started to build locomotives and many other products, helped boost the economy of Portland the state.
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.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"By 1959, rail freight revenues were sufficient enough to offset losses in passenger numbers and passenger service was terminated."
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"… Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
