Portland & Ogdensburg Railway

Willey Brook Bridge in the White Mountains - click

    Formerly the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad which had failed.  The Vermont section of that enterprise was leased to the Boston & Lowell Railway and we now have the Railway in it's place.  This Railway lasted a number of years before being sold to the Maine Central Railroad, and it became the Maine Centrals' Mountain Division.
  This Railway was a Standard Gauge road and almost all of its' locomotive were made by The Portland Company (right here in Maine).  Some of the track were still in use up until 1943.
  At the time this company worked some of its' civil engineering feats were an example for others to follow.  The Big Cut at Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire was a prime example of these types of feats.
  Photos from www.wikipedia.org where more information can be found on this subject.

Gates of the Big Cut

Engine number One the Presumpscot