Cape Junction – Cape Jellison railway line
| Cape Junction ME – Cape Jellison ME, status 1999 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 2 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Society: | lastly BAR | ||||||||||||||||
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The Cape Junction – Cape Jellison railway is a disused railway line in Maine ( United States ). It is only about two kilometers long and tied the port on Cape Jellison to the main line of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR). The standard gauge line was put into operation on November 27, 1905 together with the subsequent main line by the Northern Maine Seaport Railroad (NMSR) and was used exclusively for freight traffic. From July 7, 1907, the BAR ran the business after leasing the NMSR. After a new port was opened in Searsport in 1924, the line lost its purpose and was shut down and dismantled in 1925. The bridge over Penobscot Bay was demolished. A road bridge was later built in the same place but in a different angle. A short section of the former route is now used by a side road.
literature
Mike Walker: SPV's comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. Steam Powered Publishing, Faversham 1999, ISBN 1-874745-12-9 .
- Jerry Angier, Herb Cleaves: Bangor & Aroostook . Flying Yankee Enterprises, Littleton MA 1986, ISBN 0-96155-743-5 .
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .
