Keywords: rail road track
Item 21729
Train Number 1 for Green Mountain Rail Road, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 14513
Track washout, Maysville, 1954
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Maysville 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 4 of 4
"… Speedway at the corner of Holmes Road and Two Rod Road was built in 1949 on the site of an old horse track."
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