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It is also served by Megabus (via Concord Coach Lines), as well as the Greater Portland Metro route 1 and BREEZ bus services. [4] The station is open from 4:30 AM to 12:15 AM and from 2:45 AM to 3:15 AM. [5] Portland Transportation Center is located in Portland's Libbytown neighborhood, [6] about a half mile west of the former site of Portland ...
John A. Poor circa 1860. Portland first became a transportation hub when the Cumberland and Oxford Canal to interior Maine was completed in 1832. [1] The first railroad reached the city a decade later: the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railway (PS&P), whose joint operation with the Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts began in 1842.
Maine Coast Railroad: MC 1990 2000 Safe Handling Rail, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1836 1844 Boston and Maine Railroad: Maine Shore Line Railroad: MEC: 1881 1888 Maine Central Railroad: Monson Railroad: 1885 1943 N/A Monson and Athens Railroad: 1881 1885 Monson Railroad: Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway: MMA ...
The Kennebec and Portland Railroad was chartered in 1836, and completed from Portland to Augusta in 1851. It was reorganized as the Portland and Kennebec Railroad in 1862, leased as the Maine Central lower road main line in 1870, and purchased in 1874. [1] Presumpscot River bridge [4] Milepost 7.9: West Falmouth station opened in 1850. [1]
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.
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 operations in 1862. By 1884, Maine Central was the longest railroad in New England. Maine Central had expanded to 1,358 miles (2,185 km) when the United States Railroad Administration assumed control ...
On August 31, 1961, the train station was demolished, and a strip mall built on the property. [4] [5] Nevertheless, the Boston and Maine continued multiple daily trains from Portland itself to Boston until 1965. [6] [7] Preservation group Greater Portland Landmarks was formed in 1964, in response to the station's demolition. [8]
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 ...