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U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the U.S. state of Maine is a major north–south section of the United States Numbered Highway System, serving the eastern part of the state.It parallels the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire north through Portland, Brunswick, and Belfast to Calais, and then the St. Croix River and the rest of the Canada–United States border via Houlton to Fort Kent.
The Great Falls and South Berwick Railroad in about 1855 built a 3.0-mile (4.8 km) spur line from the PS&P at this point to join with the B&M at Great Falls, and established its headquarters here, which became known as Conway Junction because the Great Falls and South Berwick connected near here to the Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway ...
Downeast Scenic Railroad; Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum; Midcoast Railservice (Coastliner; [2] operated 2023 to 2024; replaced by Maine Switching Services in 2025 [3]) Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad; Seashore Trolley Museum; Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway
Purchased from the city of Waterville, ME in November 2015, 470 was the last steam engine to operate for the Maine Central Railroad on June 13, 1954. [ 3 ] 470 arrived at Washington Jct. via flat bed trucks, partially disassembled on August 10, 2016 after being removed from its display track in Waterville, ME.
Atlantic Shore Line locomotive 100 is preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The Atlantic Shore Line (ASL) was an electric trolley line providing passenger and freight service to many towns in York County, Maine, in the United States. The ASL was the second-longest trolley line in Maine, encompassing over 87 miles (140 km) of track.
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In the summer of 1956, the Seashore Electric Railway began passenger operations on weekends over its 1 ⁄ 4-mile-long (0.40 km) track. [5] In 1980, ten of the museum's trolley and railroad cars were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as "Maine Trolley Cars"). These include trolley #31 and other vehicles either built or ...
Maine Central built 37 box cars, 37 flat cars, 3 cabooses and a baggage-RPO car in their Portland Terminal Company shops for the SR&RL between 1912 and 1917. [5] SR&RL locomotives 15, 16, 17 and 18 were re boilered in the Maine Central Waterville shops during the same period, and a 4-mile (6.4 km) freight branch was built from Perham Junction ...