Keywords: rail yard
Item 34504
Freight Yard on the Penobscot River, Bangor, ca. 1901
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1901 Location: Bangor Media: Offset Print
Item 14498
Old turntable, Derby Railroad Yard, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Derby 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
"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911
Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2
"(Chair rail was known bullhead rail and the “chair” held the rail to the ties.) The railroad operated six locomotives, two carriages for passengers…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product
"… house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail siding. Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments."
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
