Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com In 1984, a fire on the east end of Portland led to the founding of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum. Because the fire ruined a bridge that was part of the Canadian National Railroad right-of-way, that railroad ceased operations there and the state of Maine snatched up the property....
Published at HelloPortlandMaine.com Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay, Maine, is unusual among New England museums; no other location exhibits classic automobiles, buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries, and narrow-gauge railroads in one museum. Only about an hour north of Portland, and roughly the same distance south of Augusta in the Mid Coast region,...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com About an hour north of Portland along the Maine coast are the towns of Alna and Wiscasset, two towns that would have served as a rail connection from Maine into Quebec if the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington (WW&F) Railway had been finished. Unfortunately, the railroads that eventually led to the founding of...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com Come to the Mid Coast region of Maine between Memorial Day weekend and October each year, and you might see the Art Deco-style cars of the Maine Eastern Railroad chugging along the Maine coastline. Between Memorial Day weekend and late June, passengers can take one of two round trips per day...
