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Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars (trams), it also includes rapid transit trains, Interurban cars, trolley buses , and motor buses .
The Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Railroad opened in 1883 from Kennebunk to Kennebunkport, Maine. The B&M operated service on the branch until 1926. [1]: 162–164 Mainline service to Kennebunk continued until the final day of service on January 3, 1965. [2] The station building remains, largely unchanged over the past 130 years.
The charter allowed for the building of an electric railroad from Biddeford, through the towns of Kennebunkport and Wells, to York Beach. [1] In October 1899, articles of association were filed for the Atlantic Shore Line Railway by a group which included officers of the Mousam River Railroad and the Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway.
Until April 1959, the Maine Central Railroad provided passenger service from Brunswick east to Rockland, Maine, via the 56-mile Rockland Branch. [80] The State of Maine purchased the line in 1987. From 2003 to 2015, the Maine Eastern Railroad leased operation of the line, offering seasonal excursion service to Rockland.
Purchased from the city of Waterville, ME in November 2015, 470 was the last steam engine to operate for the Maine Central Railroad on June 13, 1954. [ 3 ] 470 arrived at Washington Jct. via flat bed trucks, partially disassembled on August 10, 2016 after being removed from its display track in Waterville, ME.
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.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Three months ago, the Grey Gull Cottage at 83 Turbats Creek shocked the local real estate scene when it sold for $9 million – a record in York County.. Now, three months ...
This list of museums in Maine is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non ...