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The railroad purchased a used 19-ton Portland Company 0-4-4 T Forney from the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad when their first engine wore out in 1922 and purchased another used 18-ton Portland Company 0-4-4 T Forney from the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad to replace their second engine in 1926. [12] [15] [16]
Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad: Maine Central Railroad: MEC MEC 1862 Still exists as a lessor of Pan Am Railways operating subsidiary Springfield Terminal Railway: Maine Coast Railroad: MC 1990 2000 Safe Handling Rail, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1836 1844 Boston and Maine Railroad: Maine Shore Line ...
[1] [2] First-generation diesel locomotives operated on BAR until they were museum pieces. The economic downturn of the 1980s, coupled with the departure of heavy industry from northern Maine, forced the railroad to seek a buyer and end operations in 2003. It was succeeded by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway.
The Maine legislature authorized the sale of the railroad in 1847 and on November 1, 1849, it was sold (at a considerable loss) to a new company for only $60,000. At this time the track was re-laid with heavier “chair” or “bull-head” rail and a single span of a planned bridge to Milford, to the north, was constructed.
Boston and Maine Railroad; C. Canadian National Railway; CSX Transportation; E. Eastern Maine Railway (1995) L. Lewiston and Auburn Railroad; M. Maine Northern Railway;
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
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The first electric trolleycar began service between Morrills Corner and Woodfords Corner in June 1891. PRR staved off competition from the Portland & Westbrook Street Railway to provide service to Westbrook. [5] Portland Railroad Company Substation, built in 1911, in Scarborough, Maine