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Container shipping through Portland has increased considerably over that same period. [8] 100 cruise ships docked in Portland in 2019, making it Maine's second-largest cruise ship port behind Bar Harbor. [9] A regional ferry service, Casco Bay Lines, also operates out of the Port of Portland.
Millinocket: Millinocket Yard (Maine Northern Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway) Portland: Yard 8 (Pan Am Railways, Maine International Marine Terminal) Yard 10 (Pan Am Railways, Amtrak) Yard 11 (Pan Am Railways) Rockland: Rockland Yard (Maine Department of Transportation) Rumford: Rumford Yard (Pan Am Railways) South Portland: Rigby Yard (CSX)
Portland Terminal Company boxcar #51 in china clay service at Portland, Maine Yard 8 in the summer of 1968. Yard 8 served PTM Wharf 3 on the Portland Harbor waterfront along the north shore of the Fore River estuary upstream of Yard 1. Wharf 3 had water frontage of 1,500 feet (460 m) designed for handling bulk commodities from ships and barges ...
Casco Bay Lines' terminal building on the Maine State Pier. The Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal is located on the Maine State Pier. It was constructed in the 1980s. In the summer of 2014, a major renovation and addition designed by Scott Simons Architects opened to the public, effectively doubling the size of the original building.
Rigby Yard is a classification yard in South Portland, Maine, operated by Pan Am Railways, a subsidiary of CSX Transportation. It was originally constructed between 1922 and 1923 on the site of the former Rigby Park by the Portland Terminal Company , a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad . [ 1 ]
Boston and Maine Railroad: Portland and Rumford Falls Railroad: MEC: 1907 1946 Maine Central Railroad: Portland and Rumford Falls Railway: MEC: 1890 1946 Maine Central Railroad: Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway: 1898 1933 Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad: B&M: 1837 1900 Boston and Maine Railroad: Portland Terminal Company: PTM MEC: 1911
South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-most populous city in the state, incorporated in 1898. At the 2020 census, the city population was 26,498. [6] Known for its working waterfront, South Portland is situated on Portland Harbor and overlooks the skyline of Portland and the islands of Casco Bay ...
There have been at least six significant movements for Peaks to secede from the city of Portland: in 1883, 1922, 1948, 1955, 1992, and between 2004 and 2011. [15] The most recent effort grew out of a revaluation of the municipality's properties, when average property taxes on Peaks Island increased by over 200 percent. [16]