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Historical Items

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Item 13843

Railroad excursion flyer, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13912

Total Eclipse of the Sun train excursion, 1932

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1932-08-31 Location: Portland; Fryeburg; Bartlett; North Conway; Portland; Fryeburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104211

Montreal excursion flyer, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Montreal Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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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 32828

Railroad, Allen Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Style: Railroad Victorian Use: Railroad - Gate Tender's Shanty

Architecture & Landscape

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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 150122

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company traffic department alterations, Bangor, 1948-1956

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1956 Location: Bangor Client: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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Item 150353

Cape Cottage Casino for P. & C.E. Railway, Cape Elizabeth, 1898-1899

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898–1899 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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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

Aroostook County Railroads

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.

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Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist

Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.

Site Pages

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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…"

Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Train Ferry Hercules, Bath, ca. 1908Patten Free Library Before the current railroad station, in 1871, MCRR built a station at almost the same…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"The railroad is now located behind Riverside Restaurant. It is still used as a freight railroad, but doesn’t carry passengers."

My Maine Stories

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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

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The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily