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Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway Museum: Alna: Lincoln: Mid Coast: Railway: 2 ft (0.61 m) (610 mm) gauge heritage railway and museum Woodlawn Museum: Ellsworth: Hancock: Down East: Historic house: Collections reflect three generations of the Black family from 1802 to 1928 Woolwich History Museum: Woolwich: Sagadahoc: Mid Coast: History
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.
The Seashore Trolley Museum is owned and operated by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (NEERHS). [1] Of the museum's collection of more than 350 vehicles, ten trolley and railroad cars that historically operated in Maine were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Maine Trolley Cars.
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway. The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset , Albion , and Winslow , but was abandoned in 1936.
The world's first operational mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway), the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Coos County, New Hampshire — in operation since its opening in 1869 — uses a 4 ft 8 inch (1,422 mm) rail gauge, as designed by Sylvester Marsh, the creator of the Marsh rack system for ensuring firm traction going up ...
Boothbay is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,003 at the 2020 census . It includes the neighborhoods of Back Narrows, Dover, Linekin, Oak Hill, Ocean Point, Spruce Shores, and the villages of East Boothbay and Trevett.
Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum from 1956-2018) ... Boothbay Railway Village; Downeast Scenic Railroad;