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20th Anniversary Seashore Electric Railway Trolley Museum
New England Electric Railway Historical Society and Seashore Electric Railway
Tracks the first 20 years (1939 to 1959) of the Seashore Electric Railway Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.
[The original document is 6 pages. Pages 7-18 are enlarged section of these 6 pages for easier reading and for larger display of the photographs].
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Album of Maine Central Railroad Scenery
Maine Central Railroad
Includes dozens of images around Maine circa the 1880s, such as a panorama of Portland; railroad stations at Auburn, Brunswick and Woodfords; ice houses at Gardiner; bridges near Lewiston and Waterville; view of Augusta; hotel at Bangor; and more.
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Atlantic Shore Line Railway: its predecessors and its successors
Osmond Richard Cummings
Introduction
The 1949 SALE of the 3-mile electric freight line between Sanford and Springvale, Maine, to the Sanford & Eastern Railroad by the York Utilities Company, and subsequent changeover to Diesel motive power, all but brings to an end the colorful history of the second largest of the Pine Tree State's four major electric railway systems -- the Atlantic Shore Line Railway -- known in its heyday as the "Sea View Route." The Sanford-Springvale line was the last remaining segment under trolley wire.
At its height, this extensive 90-mile network of cross-country trolley lines, operating largely over private right-of-way, extended from Kittery to Biddeford, serving York, York Beach, Ogunquit, Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise; it branched inland from Kennebunk to Sanford and Springvale, and connected both Kittery and York with Eliot and South Berwick (Maine) and Dover (New Hampshire), as well as operating the ferry service across the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Hand-book of Officers, Agents, Stations and Sidings 1916: Maine Central Railroad Company
Maine Central Railroad
Portland Terminal Company ; Sandy River and Rangely Lakes Railroad ; Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Company
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Hand-book of Officers, Agents, Stations and Sidings 1917: Maine Central Railroad Company
Maine Central Railroad
Portland Terminal Company ; Sandy River and Rangely Lakes Railroad ; Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Company
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History of the old Bangor, Old Town, and Milford railroad 1836-1869
Mary H.E. Curran
An extensive history of the railroad's history compiled by Bangor Public Library Director Mary Curran from various sources, including newspaper and journal articles, and personal papers.
References a photograph that is unfortunately no longer part of this manuscript. Does include a drawing and a map.
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In the Maine Woods: 1900 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Opening paragraphs:
A circle drawn on the map of Maine with Mt. Katahdin for its center, and 100 miles from edge to edge, embraces the richest field for the sportsman in the United States.
Nowhere else is there such satisfactory hunting for big game, in territory so easily reached. The area of northern Maine, above a line drawn across the state from Bangor, is greater than that of the states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Aroostook County alone is nearly as large as the state of Massachusetts, having an area of 6,800 square miles, or 500 square miles more than the state of Connecticut. Piscataquis County, the smallest of the three counties forming the greater part of northern Maine, has an area of 3,780 square miles, or 500 square miles more than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
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In the Maine Woods: 1901 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Opening paragraphs:
For those who believe the serious side of life should be brightened by wholesome outdoor sport; to whom the click of a reel, the slish of a line, the purring of water from the bow of a canoe are as music; to whom the forest, peopled with wild game, and rich in lakes and streams in which fish abound, appeals in its grandeur and mystery, this book is prepared as a guide to the richest of Nature's treasuries, the woods and waters of northern Maine.
Here, in an area of 15,000 square miles, or about 10 million acres, lie a thousand lakes and ponds, yielding their waters to six rivers - the Penobscot and Kennebec, running south, and the St. John, Allagash, Fish and Aroostook running north. An intricate network of waterways interlaces throughout this region, and one may journey by canoe within its limits for months without once turning on his course. Its waters are filled with game fish as no other known waters are.
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In the Maine Woods: 1902 Edition (Title: In Pine Tree Jungles)
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Kipling has told us much about the tangled jungles of the far East; Stanley has sent out glowing accounts of jungle life in Darkest Africa; now why not turn for a while to jungles nearer home -- to the greatest sporting and recreation ground in all America -- the widespread pine-tree jungles of northern Maine? Here is sport unbounded; fisherman and huntsman are equally blessed, and bountifully. Or, if one comes merely for the good which an untrammelled forest existence can do him, he gets rejuvenation and health in fullest measure, and in a most delightful way.
Should the reader wonder what there can be about the Maine woods that is so universally attractive, he can best satisfy his curiosity by an actual visit to this sylvan paradise. Let him join the great army of autumnal sojourners who slip away annually from the cares and problems of city life and dive deep into the great Maine forests.
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In the Maine Woods: 1903 Edition (Title: Haunts of the Hunted)
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
It was more than half a century ago when Thoreau, plunging deep into the wilderness of the Katahdin country, got his first taste of the ecstasies of existence in the great Maine woods. We have his own enthusiastic account of the trip -- of endless windings up river, lake and stream; of panoramic splendors by green -- girt shores and forest-covered ridges; and of life ideal in silent sylvan fastnesses. He went to seek a wilderness; he found a mammoth park of nature's most picturesque making, where naught but great green forests covered hill and dale as far as eye could see and where sinuous waterways offered the only path by which the traveler could get in touch with this wildly rugged land of beauty.
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In the Maine Woods: 1904 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
When early man went off on a vacation he invariably "took to the woods " -- because he had no other place to go to. He hunted, he fished, he roamed the forests with such delight as can come only to a true lover of the woods; and it is possible that, "just for fun," he may have worked a log into the waters of some winding stream and, sitting astride of it, have been borne along with the gliding current, enthusing all the while over the sylvan splendors which spread out in panoramic magnificence on every side.
Today, the vacationist "takes to the woods" from choice; and if his route leads him into the depths of the great Maine forests where the woods are well-nigh primeval and where the lakes and rivers and lesser waterways lave the same shores they have known for centuries, then his cup of joy becomes filled to the very brim.
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In the Maine Woods: 1905 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
There comes a time in many a man's life when the tired mind, wearied with the hurly-burly of modern business, steals away from the tasks in hand and refreshes itself with sweet memory pictures of the deep Maine woods. And what pictures they are! Exquisite paintings which no hand but nature's could originate and no thought but one's own produce; entrancing scenes with the supreme delights of camp and its environments in the foreground, and ideal woods and water settings at the back. It is no ordinary vacation trip that one makes when he wends his way into the forest fastnesses of Maine's great wilderness.
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In the Maine Woods: 1906 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
To the man or woman who has once tasted the ecstacies of life in the deep woods of northern Maine, the "call of the wild" is simply irresistible. To them no summons is sweeter, or more welcome, or more delightful to obey; and though it comes, clear and penetrating, with every recurring vacation season, yet it comes ever to gladly receptive ears and finds an instant response in the heart of the erstwhile vacationist.
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In the Maine Woods: 1908
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Imagine if you can an immense forest playground over fifteen thousand square miles in extent; imagine this great tract to be intersected by more than a thousand connecting and contiguous waterways, in whose cool depths swim countless numbers of handsome game fish; imagine, too, the presence of thousands of hulky moose and bears, tens of thousands of graceful deer, and a veritable multitude of smaller forest denizens—and you have some idea of that wonderful recreation region known the world over as "the wilds of northern Maine.”
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In the Maine Woods: 1909 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
In the Maine woods one may play as moderately or as strenuously as he likes. If one does not care to "rough it" but desires the woods surroundings with all the comforts of home, his desires are easily met. Maine woods camps rival metropolitan hotels in the comforts they afford their guests. Some of the larger camps have gas or electric lighting plants, private baths and telephones, yet a short trip from camp takes one into the abode of all the finned and furred and feathered denizens of the forest.
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In the Maine Woods: 1910 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
This annual publication serves as an introduction to persons unacquainted with the vast Aroostook gameland and vacation country and for the hundreds who make yearly visits to this playground of the nation it is a reminder of happy clays in an expanse which nature has endowed with signal munificence. It does not pretend to be a complete compendium for it would require many volumes to adequately cover the many and diverse attractions of Aroostook -- the scenic charms of its mountains, lakes and streams; the delights of the forest retreats; the allurements which yearly call the angler and the mystic charm which draws the hunters to the wooded depths to follow the trail of moose and deer.
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In the Maine Woods: 1913 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Even in the old days, long before modem transportation methods had been dreamed of, the Maine woods attracted their annual visitors who were willing to withstand the discomforts of stage and wagon travel to reach their favorite spots. Small wonder, then, that today, when all travel conveniences are provided that the woods enthusiasts are increasing each season. Unlike the changes in modes of travel, there is no limitation or diminution in the allurements of the forest.. It stands today as in centuries agone -- magnificent., mysterious, and despite its vastness, ever wafting a welcome to those who seek repose and refreshment in its balmy depths.
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In the Maine Woods: 1914 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
In spite the craze for speed -- through water, on land and in the air -- never has the canoe, one of the most primitive of craft, been more popular than at the present time. This, it may be argued, is a good indication of returning sanity for there is no recreation more health-giving and stimulating than a canoe cruise through the woodland waters which are so numerous in Aroostook country. A decade or so ago it was regarded as a great novelty, the making of a canoe trip in the Maine woods, and as for women attempting one of these forest expeditions, she who did it was looked upon as an adventuress. Now, however, perhaps owing to the increasing strenuosity of city life and consequent craving for new scenes, different modes of living and the leaving behind of the stress and strain of the times, canoeing is the favorite form of vacation for hundreds of men and women.
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In the Maine Woods: 1915 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
In the Maine woods -- the country marvelously endowed by Nature and replete with never-ending delights for men and women for whom there are no joys equal to the allurements of the forest -- the unbroken forest of mystic murmurs, of winding streams and glistening basins, of rushing rapids, of tree-crested hills and mountains, or majestic rivers leading far away through primeval depths -- small wonder that the woods of Maine are the favorite recreation grounds for thousands that yearly make pilgrimage in answer to the magic call and a yearning for rest and relaxation away from the city's stress and strain.
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In the Maine Woods: 1916 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
More than half a century back, Thoreau, famous naturalist and one of the earliest panegyrists of the Maine wood, thus wrote his impressions of the great Aroostook country which is now world-famous as the mecca for fishermen, hunters and the thousands of men and women who turn to the forest area for rest and relaxation when the vacation time arrives. When Thoreau made his excursions into the Maine woods, first to climb Katahdin, again to visit Moosehead and Chesuncook lakes and a third time to revel in the delights of a canoe trip in Allagash and East Branch waters, it meant primitive methods of traveling, undergoing difficulties and putting up with inconveniences which are unknown to present day devotees of the Maine woods.
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In the Maine Woods: 1917 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Sample paragraph:
Once a vacation is enjoyed in the Maine woods it is easy to understand the rhapsodies which come from the many women and men who yearly make pilgrimage to this great country of natural charms and scenic delights. It is a marvelous combination that one gets in the woods, for here Nature seems most bountiful in the union of mountains, forest, magnificent lakes and swift-flowing rivers. On all sides there is the radiant and irresistible allurement that is found only in the woods which hold out a warmth of welcome that seems never to exist elsewhere for those who have come under the magic spell of the forest enchantment.
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In the Maine Woods: 1918 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Sample paragraph:
When the early enthusiasts started for a trip to Moosehead Lake, one of the earliest places to become famous, it meant a long stage-coach journey over roads none too smooth from Bangor to Greenville. The early visitors to Mt. Katahdin made the trip from Bangor, up the Penobscot River, by canoes with Old Town Indians as guides. Now practically any point on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad can he reached by an overnight trip from New York or Boston with arrival at the destination in the woods in time for mid-day dinner the following day. Pullman sleeping, parlor and dining cars, along with other up-to-the minute improvements, have taken all the discomforts from traveling between cities and the different centers in the Maine woods.
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In the Maine Woods: 1921 Edition
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
Sample paragraph:
Health, happiness and contentment are the inevitable possessions gained from a Maine woods vacation. The vast, wonderful country is redolent with balsam-laden breezes that bring rest and upbuilding, and the splendid forms of outdoor life open to the comers to the Maine woods are equally suited for men and women and boys and girls. To all who seek rest, relaxation and recreation in the "nation's playground" the whole state of Maine, synonymous with cordiality and hospitality, extends a hearty welcome.
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