(Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown) That includes a car built at Pullman in 1928 for the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in Maine, which for 75 years was the rail home to every B&A executive, according ...

Explore the Market Square Historic District — a cohesive collection of Italianate, Colonial Revival, and other elegant buildings constructed between 1885 and 1910, when the arrival of the Bangor and ...

He became captivated by the railroad during an April 1976 tourist excursion from Laconia to Lincoln. Judge has since purchased, restored, and operated a wooden 1914 Bangor & Aroostook Railroad caboose ...

The Bangor & Aroostook didn’t purchase its first diesels (EMD F3s) until 1947, but dieselization then came quickly, with the last steam operations in 1949. The railroad kept its older diesels in good ...

Northern Maine’s Bangor & Aroostook Railroad was a relative latecomer to the American railroad map, being organized under the General Laws of Maine on Feb. 13, 1891. There had been earlier efforts, ...

For decades, many local residents who didn’t work for the railroad commuted jobs at the paper mill in Millinocket or the shoe factory in Dexter. Those businesses shut down in the early 2000s, around ...

Franklin Cram of Bangor and Albert Burleigh of Houlton led the creation of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in 1891. - Originally, with the coming of the railroad in Aroostook County, of course ...

Maine Central Railroad, and the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. Both rail companies operated for more than a century, connecting people and companies in eastern and northern Maine to the rest of New ...

As a kid, I remember seeing red, white and blue boxcars full of potatoes emblazoned with the words "State of Maine Potatoes" roll past the railroad crossing on my street. The Bangor and Aroostook ...

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