Keywords: Railroad
Item 19577
Danforth Railroad Bridge, 1907
Contributed by: An individual through East Grand School Date: 1907 Location: Danforth Media: Postcard
Item 19581
Railroad tracks by mills, Danforth, ca. 1930
Contributed by: An individual through East Grand School Date: circa 1930 Location: Danforth Media: Photographic print
Item 53355
84-184 Fore Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Canadian National Railroad Use: Railroad - Station
Item 32687
Railroad, Bishop Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Style: Shed Use: Railroad - Store House
Item 109213
Maine Central Railroad, Bangor Freight House, Bangor, 1947-1948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947–1948 Location: Bangor Client: Maine Central Railroad Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 109179
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company traffic department alterations, Bangor, 1948-1956
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1956 Location: Bangor Client: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad
The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.
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
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad
"Click for Railroad Photos The new railroad had an immediate and profound impact. Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"Train Ferry Hercules, Bath, ca. 1908Patten Free Library Before the current railroad station, in 1871, MCRR built a station at almost the same…"
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