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| Grand Trunk Station Portland, Maine wikipedia photo - click |
The St. Lawrence and Atlantic was a 150 mile road that operated between Portland, Maine and Island Pond, Vermont. The route had a few curves and bends during those 150 miles while going from Portland, through New Clouster and Lewiston/Auburn and Rumford on the way. It operated from 1845 until 1960 and part of the route is still served by the Montreal Maine and Atlantic and the Canadian National Railroads.
The Grand Trunk Station was torn down long before that line stopped running, the lot was used to build a meat processing plant, Jordan's, which is closed and gone as well, a new Hotel/Condo project is underway there on India Street. Some of the other stations have been preserved but many are now history; there are times when preservation efforts haven't been used and should have been. Portland has lost both of its' historic large train stations, Bangors' Union Station is gone too.
The Wikipedia article on this road is long with detailed listing of all the stops this route had in its' 150 miles and all photos used here are from that article.
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| An early St. Lawrence and Atlantic locomotive, the Coos. |
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| The South Paris, Maine station, now gone |
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| Berlin, New Hampshire. This station may still be with us. |
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