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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"

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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"The two trolley cars are “combine” cars as they have two compartments, one for passengers and one for baggage and express freight."

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."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"There was great excitement that July when the rails of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company were finally connected to those of the Portland…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Two partially submerged rail cars and an unidentified building were just a couple of the many damages caused by the Bangor Flood of 1902.Bangor…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley R.R., Presque Isle, ca. 1939

"Car #52 now is at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport. Reproduction of an earlier postcard. View additional information about this item on the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"Another old car that’s not in business today is the Citroen. The Citroen was the first foreign made car to be sold in Aroostook County."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"After I stopped working for the dairy farm, I worked cleaning cars and as a grease monkey. Also at night I would go down to Carroll’s and under-coat…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"The average car cost about$2,500 dollars. Most cars back then were standard shift and had no radio. In fact, cars were so cheap back then that people…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales Buildings

"… and students Carroll’s Auto Sales is the oldest car dealer in Presque Isle. Skippy Carroll first established it in 1957, on the corner of Jordan…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… bus for a little ways before an Ashland bus would pick her up from there. They also had to walk to church. The family didn’t really use the car."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"… a bulk truck to a Bangor and Aroostook gondola car. In the 1970s, potato farmers in Aroostook County grew sugar beets as a rotation crop with…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"… cool Bangor and Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes. Cement blocks were manufactured in the small building on the left."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My mother was twenty-one when she first drove a car, about a year after she had my older sister in the United States."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Her father and her whole family went in the car to the fair, which was about four miles from her house in the country."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"The car’s walls were lined with charcoal (which did not conduct the outside heat to the inside of the car) and ice was placed in a tube on either…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"Initially, cars were limited to seasonal use because of poor roads. Few roads were tarred. By 1927, popularity of the automobile forced Scarborough…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… School Shop class for transport to the railroad car. Cutting tree, Presque Isle, October, 1959Presque Isle Historical Society Snow adds to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… Historical Society Brady, who was still in the car, called, “I’ll come, don’t shoot!” Brady stepped out of the car and opened fire as he ran…"

Life on a Tidal River - Cohen Students

"… the Brady Gang, Bangor in the 1930's, and antique cars. Many of these volunteers came into the classroom each quarter so that all students would…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… for tuberculosis patients, a public hospital, car dealerships, and the development of Main Street as we know it today."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The engines and passenger cars were sold to collectors and the track lanes are now snowmobile trails."