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The Maine Central Railroad Company main line extended from Portland, Maine, east to the Canada–US border with New Brunswick at the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge. It is the transportation artery linking Maine cities to the national railway network. Sections of the main line had been built by predecessor railroads consolidated as the ...
Safe Handling Rail, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1836 1844 Boston and Maine Railroad: Maine Shore Line Railroad: MEC: 1881 1888 Maine Central Railroad: Monson Railroad: 1885 1943 N/A Monson and Athens Railroad: 1881 1885 Monson Railroad: Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway: MMA MMA 2002 2004 Central Maine and ...
Named for the Down East region of Maine, the train operates five daily round trips between North Station in Boston, Massachusetts, and Brunswick, Maine, with ten intermediate stops. In fiscal 2024, the Downeaster carried 598,426 passengers, up 27.0% from the previous year. [3] In 2024, the train earned ticket revenue of 13,051,548 up from ...
Portland Transportation Center is a bus and train station in Portland, Maine, United States, served and run primarily by Concord Coach Lines (18 round-trips a day) [2] and Amtrak Downeaster passenger trains (five round-trips a day). [3] It is also served by Megabus (via Concord Coach Lines), as well as the Greater Portland Metro route 1 and ...
The railroad history of Portland, Maine, began in 1842 with the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad (PS&P). Most of the rail activity in Portland concerned agricultural goods bound for export and European import freight. But Maine's largest city also enjoyed 125 years of continuous passenger rail service from 1842 until 1967 ...
Air, rail, road, water. Public transportation in Maine is available for all four main modes of transport —air, bus, ferry and rail—assisting residents and visitors to travel around much of Maine 's 31,000 square miles (80,000 km 2). The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) has broken down the state's sixteen counties into eight regions ...
originally 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge on some lines. Length. 1,121 miles (1,804 kilometers) [1] Maine Central headquarters, at 222 Saint John Street in Portland, built in 1916, seen here in 1920. The Maine Central Railroad (reporting mark MEC) was a U. S. class 1 railroad [2] in central and southern Maine. It was chartered in 1856 and began ...
March 27, 2017. The Greenville Junction Depot is a historic railway station at Greenville Junction, Maine. The wood frame, one-story building was opened in 1889 with an addition made in 1911. The station is notable for the “witch’s hat” conical roof at one end of the building. [1] The combined passenger/freight depot was used from 1889 to ...