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One of the most popular and busiest trains to be operated out of Portland was the Boston-Portland-Bangor Flying Yankee route, which was run jointly by the MEC and Boston & Maine Railroads, making three daily departures (two southbound and one northbound) from Portland Union Station. On April 1, 1935, this service was inaugurated with a then ...
From Portland the Maine Central hauled the cars to their final destinations in the northeast. The B&A withdrew early on, however, so the trains followed a purely New Haven routing from New York to Worcester. The lack of a direct connection between Boston's North Station and South Station precluded a Boston section. [1]
By 1843, the Eastern entered into an agreement with the Boston & Maine to share the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad's tracks in Maine, which allowed both railroads to begin providing Boston-to-Portland service. On April 28, 1847, the Eastern and the Boston & Maine co-leased the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth for a period of 99 years.
In August 2007, top speeds were increased from 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) to 79 miles per hour (127 km/h), cutting 20 minutes from trips between Portland and Boston. The first expansion of Downeaster service came that month, when the improvements made it possible to increase from four to five daily round trips from Portland to Boston. [6]
The daily route served began in Portland, then to Boston, followed by a return to Portland and continuing to Bangor, Maine, returning through Portland to Boston and finally returning to Portland late in the day, a distance of 750 miles (1,210 km) per day. This schedule was kept six days a week; the trainset spent Sundays undergoing maintenance.
The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad was a railroad planned to connect Portland, Maine to Ogdensburg, New York. The plan failed, and in 1880 the Vermont section was reorganized and leased by the Boston & Lowell Railroad. In 1886, the Maine and New Hampshire section was reorganized as the Portland & Ogdensburg Railway.
Boston & Maine Railroad timetable for the Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, October, 1900. In 1845, Worcester was becoming an important railroad junction in central Massachusetts, with numerous rail lines linking the city to Boston, Springfield, Providence, Rhode Island, and Norwich, Connecticut, with another line linking it to Albany, New York.
I-84 crossing from Wayne County into Pike County. I-84 starts in Pennsylvania at I-81 in Dunmore, a suburb east of Scranton.After two miles (3.2 km), I-84 interchanges with I-380, with I-380 going southeast through the Pocono Mountains and I-84 continuing almost due east into Wayne and Pike counties.