Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

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Locomotive 4 at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Portland, Maine . It was founded in 1993 after the Edaville Railroad , a museum railroad in Massachusetts, had to shut down in 1991 due to financial problems. The vehicles on this line, most of which came from the former narrow-gauge operations in Maine, were transferred to Portland in September 1993. The museum is located on Casco Bay on the site of the Portland Company , which also built some of the narrow-gauge locomotives that were used in Maine. It also has a railroad line approximately 2.5 kilometers long on the 610 millimeter (2 foot) gauge. The single-track museum route runs along the coast parallel to the pedestrian promenade on the route of the Portland – Island Pond railway line, which has been disused in this area .

The museum regularly lends vehicles from its collection for short-term exhibitions. For example, locomotive 3 of the Monson Railroad ran in 1997 on the occasion of the 175th anniversary celebration at Monson station and in 2001 for the 200th anniversary celebration in Strong . This locomotive was also temporarily loaned to the museum of the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railroad . The rail bus of the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad was exhibited for an Independence Day celebration in Bridgton and was used by Phillips on the museum route there. Other vehicles in the museum are locomotives 7 and 8 of the Bridgton & Saco River, locomotive 4 of the Monson Railroad and the motorized railroad car of the former Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, which was converted from a car .

move

The contract for the free use of the museum building expired on September 30, 2007. The owner has announced that it will start charging an annual rent of $ 65,000 in October 2007. Since 2010 a new location has been sought for the museum. In May 2012 it was announced that they were trying to move to Gray north of Portland and that they wanted to build a museum route on the route of the former Portland – Lewiston Interurban Railroad . The contracts with the city of Gray and the Central Maine Power Company , which owns the route of the former overland tram, were signed in April 2014. The opening is planned for May 2017. A two-mile (approx. 3.2 km) long museum route on the former Interurban route will also be part of the museum, as will a true-to-life replica of the Kennebec Central Railroad's Randolph station .

References and further information

Individual evidence
  1. ↑ Trains online magazine of August 17, 2007. [1] (only readable for subscribers)
  2. ↑ Trains Magazin News Wire from May 2, 2012. [2] (only readable for subscribers)
  3. ↑ [3] (only readable for subscribers)
  4. ^ Maine Narrow Gauge shares plans for new campus. . Trains Magazine. July 10, 2015. Accessed July 14, 2015.
literature
  • Robert L. MacDonald: Maine Narrow Gauge Railroads. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston SC 2003, ISBN 0-7385-1179-X ( Images of Rail ).
Web links
Commons : Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′ 45 "  N , 70 ° 14 ′ 42"  W.