Eustis Junction – Berlin Mills railway line
| Eustis Junction ME - Berlin Mills ME | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 22½ km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 610 mm ( 2 foot track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | SR&RL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway Eustis Junction Berlin Mills is a railway line in Maine ( United States ). It is around 22½ kilometers long. The line was built in the gauge of two feet (610 mm) and is completely shut down.
There were numerous logging camps along the Dead River in the early 20th century. In order to connect this to the Farmington – Marbles railway line, the Eustis Railroad was founded in 1903 . On May 9, 1904, the line from Eustis Junction was opened on the main line to Greens Farm and extended to Berlin Mills in Stratton in June of the same year . During the summer months, as far as Greens Farm, where a hotel had been built, there was passenger traffic following the trains on the main line. Operations on the line were run by Phillips & Rangeley, but the Eustis Railroad had its own locomotives and freight cars.
The route began in Dallas at Eustis Junction station. It ran the entire length of the Dead River , first north to Langtown , then east to Stratton and finally southeast to Berlin Mills.
In 1908, passenger traffic ended on the route. In the same year, the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad leased the railway line, but negotiated unfavorable conditions for the Eustis Railroad, so that in 1909 the section east of Greens Farm had to be closed. From 1911 to 1923 the railway line was owned by the Maine Central Railroad . 1919 also ended all traffic between Langtown and Greens Farm. The remaining section was shut down with the entire western part of the network of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad on July 8, 1932 and dismantled by the fall of 1934.
literature
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .