Orono – Stillwater railway line
| Orono ME – Stillwater ME, as of 1999 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 4.8 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Society: | most recently MEC | ||||||||||||||||
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The Orono – Stillwater railway was a railway line in Maine ( United States ). It was three miles long. The standard-gauge , single-track line has been closed and dismantled.
The industrial town of Stillwater on a branch of the Penobscot River had been on the railway network since 1836 through the Bangor, Old Town and Milford Railroad . After the European and North American Railway bought this line in 1868 and shut it down the following year, Stillwater was cut off from rail traffic. In order to continue to connect the industrial facilities, the railway company built a short branch line from its main line, which opened in 1871. Like the main line, it was initially built in colonial gauge (1676 mm) and was converted to standard gauge on September 12, 1877. The route was only used for freight traffic.
Around 1942, traffic in Stillwater ended, and by 1948 the line to Bridge Street (now College Avenue) in Orono was reduced. In 1953, operations also ended on the remaining 500 meters of the route and the route was dismantled. Today Bennoch Road runs on the former railway line.
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 .