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The railroad was built to offer transportation for American Civil War veterans living at Togus to the nearby City of Gardiner. [1] Tracks of 25-pound steel rails ran five miles from Randolph, Maine (across the Kennebec River from Gardiner) to the veterans home at Togus. [2] [3] Train service began on 23 July 1890. [4]
Boston and Maine Corporation: BM B&M 1963 Still exists as a lessor of Pan Am Railways operating subsidiary Springfield Terminal Railway: Boston and Maine Railroad: B&M, BM B&M 1844 1964 Boston and Maine Corporation: Bridgton and Harrison Railway: 1927 1941 N/A Bridgton and Saco River Railroad: MEC: 1881 1930 Bridgton and Harrison Railway ...
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 operations in 1862. By 1884, Maine Central was the longest railroad in New England.
George Eugene Morgan was born to George William and Vesta Rowena Farnham Morgan of Chelsea (three and a half miles west of Gardiner, Maine).As a young man and as most in the area, Morgan found work along the Kennebec, first in Augusta with a furniture maker, then for many years as a harness maker, and then for even more years he worked in the shoe factories of Gardiner (Commonwealth Shoe ...
West Gardiner: 117.3: 188.8: I-95 south / Maine Turnpike south – Lewiston, Auburn, West Gardiner Service Plaza: Roundabout; exit 102 on I-95 / Turnpike: 117.4: 188.9: I-95 north / Maine Turnpike north / I-295 south – Brunswick, Augusta: Exit 103 on I-95 / Turnpike; exit 51 on I-295: Gardiner: 120.5: 193.9: US 201 south (Brunswick Avenue ...
Milepost 55.9: Gardiner was the junction with the 2-mile Maine Central Cobbosseecontee branch originally serving water-powered mills along the stream of the same name. [2] Milepost 60.2: Hallowell station opened in 1851. [1] Milepost 62.3: Augusta operated a Maine Central local switcher serving industries from Gardiner to Augusta. [5]
The Gardiner Railroad Station is a historic former railroad station at 51 Maine Street in Gardiner, Maine. It was built in 1911 by the Maine Central Railroad, and was in use as a station until the 1950s. It has since seen a variety of adaptive commercial uses.
While potatoes started moving by truck following completion of the Interstate Highway System into northern Maine in the 1960s, what actually resulted in the railroad losing its potato business forever was the Penn Central Transportation Company (PC), whose interchange service became so bad during the winter of 1969–70 that a large portion of ...