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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. [1]
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, Maine. In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive 2 ft (610 mm) gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century.
Portland #8 was a 19-ton 0-4-4 T Forney built for the Bridgton & Saco River Railroad in 1892 and Portland #9 was an 18-ton 0-4-4 T Forney built for the Sandy River Railroad in 1891. The Wiscasset car shop completed a number of rebuilding projects starting with the conversion of six of the original flatcars to boxcars during the first year of ...
The narrow-gauge (30 inches [2]) St. Kitts Scenic Railway circles the island and offers passenger service from its headquarters near the airport, although the service is geared more for tourists than as day-to-day transportation for residents. Built between 1912 and 1926 to haul sugar cane from farms to the sugar factory in Basseterre, since ...
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 ...
2 ft ( 610 mm) Length. 28 miles (45 km) The Phillips and Rangeley Railroad was a 2 ft ( 610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad in the State of Maine. It connected the towns of Phillips and Rangeley and was built to serve the forestry and resort industries of Franklin County. This railroad pioneered the use of large 2 ft ( 610 mm) gauge ...
South America. Europe. Australia. A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 115⁄8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller ...
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 ...