Keywords: Street railroads
Item 14240
Interior of street railroad car, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Media: Photographic print
Item 6020
Snow sweeper No. 01 of the Portland Railroad Company, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 53355
84-184 Fore Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Canadian National Railroad Use: Railroad - Station
Item 32685
Railroad, Bishop Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Style: Railroad Victorian Use: Railroad - Fuel Station
Item 150156
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 151350
Grand Truck Railway Terminal, Portland, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"… Library Patten Free Library The current railroad station, just south of downtown at the south end of Commercial Street, was built in 1941."
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…"
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
