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Operating out of the former Portland Company Marine Complex, the organization was founded in 1993 and continues to operate as of 2024.The collection consists of passenger and freight equipment, as well as artifacts from the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways that ran in the state of Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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 ...
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 ...
The Green Mountain Cog Railway was a mountain railway built to carry tourists to the top of Green Mountain (now known as Cadillac Mountain) on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Its track was built to 4 ft 8 in ( 1,422 mm ) gauge, which is technically a narrow gauge , as it is a 1 ⁄ 2 -inch less than 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge .
Into the 1950s, the Bangor and Aroostook operated an afternoon train, the Aroostook Flyer, on the company's mainline from Bangor (where a connection could be made from the Boston & Maine's Penobscot from Boston [15]), to Brownville, Sherman, Oakfield, Presque Isle, Caribou and concluding in Van Buren (opposite St. Leonard in New Brunswick).
1886–1910. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 17.5 miles (28.2 km) The Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad was a 19th-century Maine railroad which became the 20th century Harmony Branch of the Maine Central Railroad .
Bangor Old Town and Milford Railroad (B, O & M) is a defunct railroad and the first to be incorporated within the state of Maine, in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. Originally chartered in as the Old Town Railway in 1832 the railway began service between Bangor, Maine, and Old Town, Maine November 30, 1836, and was ...
The Downeast Scenic Railroad (reporting mark DSRX) is a heritage railway in Ellsworth, Maine which is owned and operated by the Downeast Rail Heritage Trust, which is a 501 (c)3 charitable organization founded in the fall of 2005. [1] The railroad operates over the historic Calais Branch which was once part of the Maine Central Railroad.