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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 ...
Portland Transportation Center is a bus and train station in Portland, Maine, United States, served and run primarily by Concord Coach Lines (18 round-trips a day) [2] and Amtrak Downeaster passenger trains (five round-trips a day). [3] It is also served by Megabus (via Concord Coach Lines), as well as the Greater Portland Metro route 1 and ...
Air, rail, road, water. Public transportation in Maine is available for all four main modes of transport —air, bus, ferry and rail—assisting residents and visitors to travel around much of Maine 's 31,000 square miles (80,000 km 2). The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) has broken down the state's sixteen counties into eight regions ...
The Maine Central Railroad Company main line extended from Portland, Maine, east to the Canada–US border with New Brunswick at the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge. It is the transportation artery linking Maine cities to the national railway network. Sections of the main line had been built by predecessor railroads consolidated as the ...
Eastern Maine Railway (EMRY) (Owned by New Brunswick Southern Railway) Operates Woodland Rail, LLC. Maine Northern Railway (MNRY) (Owned by New Brunswick Southern Railway) Pan Am Railways (PAR) St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (SLR) (Genesee and Wyoming) Turners Island, LLC (TI)
Portland station was a passenger rail station on the Grand Trunk Railway in Portland, Maine, United States. [1] It stood to at the foot of India Street, Portland's first street, between 1903 and 1966. It was one of Portland's four railroad stations for the Portland and Forest Avenue Railroad Company over its history, and one of the two stations ...
Yarmouth station (Maine) / 43.8016717; -70.1906447. Yarmouth station of Yarmouth, Maine, is located on the east side of the railroad tracks, just south of Maine State Route 115, the town's Main Street. The railroad station was built in 1906 by the Grand Trunk Railroad, and is a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century passenger rail ...
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 ...