Old Orchard Beach – Camp Ellis railway line
| Old Orchard Beach ME – Camp Ellis ME, status 1999 |
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| Route length: | 6.15 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1524 mm ( Russian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge (from 1883): | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | last BM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway Old Orchard Beach Camp Ellis is a railway line in Maine ( United States ). It is 6.15 kilometers long and branched off from the new main line of the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) opened in 1873 .
history
The Orchard Beach Railroad was founded in 1876 to open up the tourist resorts and settlements along the coast . She built the line and opened it on June 26, 1880.
The route ran directly along the beach to the mouth of the Saco River at Camp Ellis . The track width was initially five feet (1524 mm). The Camp Ellis terminus was only a stop, so turning was not possible. The trains consisted only of a small steam locomotive and a passenger and baggage car and drove backwards in the direction of Old Orchard Beach, so the locomotive functioned as a pushing locomotive .
From 1883, B&M ran the business and switched the line to standard gauge . During the heyday of the railroad in the 1910s, 23 pairs of trains ran on summer days. There was a siding between Kinney Shores and Bay View House, but it was dismantled around 1920 along with the Kinney Shores and Ferry Beach Park stops.
After the end of the summer season 1923, passenger traffic ended on September 5 of that year. Boston & Maine sold the route in 1924 to the Old Orchard Transportation Company , which operated the route again briefly, but then shut it down and dismantled it.
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 .
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Distance kilometers from http://www.trainweb.org/nhrra/Mileage-Charts/BM-RR/Orchard-Beach.htm
- ↑ Traveler's Official Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines in the United States and Canada. Issue June 1881, page VII.