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The railroad opened in 1840 to Exeter, New Hampshire, and on January 1, 1842, the two companies merged with the Boston and Portland to form a new Boston and Maine Railroad. Woodburytype of 0-4-0 Achilles , Baldwin Locomotive Works , 1871 1898 map Locomotive emerging from Salem station on the Eastern line, c. 1910 } Boston and Maine depot in ...
The Eastern Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine.Throughout its history, it competed with the Boston and Maine Railroad for service between the two cities, until the Boston & Maine put an end to the competition by leasing the Eastern in December 1884.
In 1992, Maine voters approved a $5.4 million rail bond for right-of-way improvements, and $60,000 was granted to the Maine DOT to design a Portland intermodal terminal. Later that year, Congress approved $25.5 million for more right-of-way improvements, and 1993 saw an additional $9.5 million in track improvements.
One of the most popular and busiest trains to be operated out of Portland was the Boston-Portland-Bangor Flying Yankee route, which was run jointly by the MEC and Boston & Maine Railroads, making three daily departures (two southbound and one northbound) from Portland Union Station. On April 1, 1935, this service was inaugurated with a then ...
The Flying Yankee is a diesel-electric streamliner built in 1935 for the Boston and Maine Railroad by Budd Company and with mechanical and electrical equipment from Electro-Motive Corporation. It was the third streamliner train in North America. [1] That train ceased passenger service in 1957 and is stored at the Conway Scenic Railroad in New ...
As with most trains between New York and Maine, the State of Maine bypassed Boston, which lacks a north-south rail connection.Travel was over the New Haven Railroad (now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor) from New York Penn Station to Providence, Rhode Island, where trains left the Northeast Corridor to reach the Boston and Maine Railroad in Worcester, Massachusetts, via the Providence and Worcester ...
Maine Central purchased the Portland and Kennebec Railroad, which ran from Portland to Augusta and was built to standard track gauge, since it connected with the Boston and Maine Railroad at Portland. By 1871, the Maine Central completed its conversion to standard gauge to facilitate interchange of cars. [5] The MEC established rail service to ...
Trains ran north to Springfield, Massachusetts, over the New Haven, where they were handed off to the Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A), which carried them to Worcester. From Worcester the B&M hauled them to Union Station in Portland, Maine. From Portland the Maine Central hauled the cars to their final destinations in the northeast.