Perham Junction – Barnjum railway line
| Perham Junction ME-Barnjum ME | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 5½ km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 610 mm ( 2 foot track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | SR&RL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway Perham Junction Barnjum is a railway line in Maine ( United States ). It is around 5.5 kilometers long. The line was built in the gauge of two feet (610 mm) and is completely shut down.
To connect a larger logging camp in Barnjum , the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad built a branch line in 1912, which branched off the main line at Perham Junction and led steeply uphill in an easterly direction to the village of Barnjum. The main purpose of the route was to transport wood and transport the loggers to the camps. There was no scheduled passenger traffic. Until 1923, the railway company and the line were owned by the Maine Central Railroad . On July 8, 1932, the railway company stopped all operations on its route network. Some of the routes were reopened the following year, but the branch to Barnjum was not. It was dismantled in 1934.
literature
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .