Keywords: rail
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong
"… his mill operations to Strong, the junction of rail service north to Kingfield, west to Phillips, and south to Farmington."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"… instead she implied that people should use rail to access the wondrous, outdoor landscape described in various articles and publications."
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens
"He was in charge of the task of building a rail line from Duluth, Minnesota to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4
"They had over 200 uniformed employees covering the rails from Chicago, Illinois, to Portland, Maine, and east to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with steamboat…"
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"Many of these damages occurred along the rail line, interrupting the only rail link between Vanceboro and Bangor."
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"… three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails” in them. Above the ground level, the smokehouse had a series of “windows.” (P. 455)."
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"… designed to allow shop owners to add hitching rails for their patrons’ horses if they wished. In her memoir, Down Memory Lane, Emily Phillips…"
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"When the rail line was abandoned and the tracks taken up, it removed the natural barrier surrounding the fair grounds."
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"… on the right looks over the temporary parapet (railing) of the bridge down onto the Lubec waterfront, still an active herring/sardine economy…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"Temple Crittenden) Today, many of the existing rail beds have been converted into heavily-used recreational trails."
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