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The Calais Branch is a mothballed railroad line in Maine that was operated by the Maine Central Railroad Company (MEC). The Calais Branch is 127 miles (204 km) long and connects Brewer to Calais . It was constructed in 1898 and carried freight and passengers over the years.
Calais Railroad: MEC: 1838 1849 Calais and Baring Railroad: Calais Railway: MEC: 1832 1838 Calais Railroad: Calais and Baring Railroad: MEC: 1849 1870 St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad: Canadian American Railroad: CDAC 1994 2003 Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway: Canadian Atlantic Railway: CP: 1988 1994 Canadian American Railroad, Eastern ...
The Boulogne–Calais railway is an electrified double track railway running between the ports of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais in France.An extension of the Longueau–Boulogne railway it meets the Lille–Fontinettes railway and Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway to Dunkirk at Les Fontinettes station in Calais.
Calais is the home of the first railroad built in the state of Maine, the Calais Railroad, incorporated by the state legislature on February 17, 1832. [7] It was built to transport lumber from a mill on the St. Croix River opposite Milltown, New Brunswick, 2 miles (3 km) to the tidewater at Calais
] The railroad operates over the historic Calais Branch which was once part of the Maine Central Railroad. Operations are out of Washington Junction and runs west towards Brewer. The railroad inaugural run was Saturday, 24 July 2010, with invited guests on board.
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Railroads shaped Maine's geography, as was the case with most American states. The first railroad in Maine was the Calais Railroad, incorporated by the state legislature on February 17, 1832. [51] It was built to transport lumber from a mill on the Saint Croix River opposite Milltown, New Brunswick two miles to the tidewater at Calais in 1835.
The Calais-Mediterranée Express was a French luxury night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during the interwar period .