Portland Terminal Company

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Portland Terminal Co.
as of 1999
Route - straight ahead
Line from Waterville (ex MEC )
Station without passenger traffic
Portland City Line
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Route from Rochester (ex P&R )
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Westbrook City Line
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Westbrook ME
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(Siding)
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Connecting track to the MEC
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Portland – Yard 12 route (ex P&O )
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former connecting track to the MEC
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former connecting track to the MEC
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Cumberland Mills ME
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(Siding)
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Yard 11 (Bishop Street)
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Station without passenger traffic
Deering Junction ME
   
formerly connecting track to the port railway (ex B&M )
   
Woodfords ME
Station without passenger traffic
Portland Water District
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Route from Portland GTR Station (ex A & SLR )
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Portland & Rochester Junction
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Route to Montreal (ex A & SLR)
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Yard 7 (former P&R terminus)
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former connecting track to Deering Jct. (ex B&M)
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Portland ME Union Station
   
Distance from yard 12 (ex P&O )
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Yard 8 (former B&M terminus)
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Yard 5
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Yard 4
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Yard 2
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Portland GTR Station
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former route to Montreal (ex A & SLR )
   
Fore River
   
Former branch to yard 6
Station without passenger traffic
Rigby ME Gbf
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the left, from the left
Branch to Yard 3 (now Turners Island LLC )
Route - straight ahead
Route to Boston (ex B&M )

The Portland Terminal Company is a former railroad company in Portland, Maine . They operated connecting tracks and the port railway in the greater Portland area.

history

After Portland was opened up from all sides by railways, the port city was faced with the problem that almost every railway company had its own terminus in the city, see train stations in Portland (Maine) . Passengers who only wanted to change trains in Portland had to travel long distances through the city center. The city therefore decided to build a common central station for all railways. The Portland Union Railroad Station Company was established on February 15, 1887. The new station was built on the Maine Central Railroad and opened in 1888.

The company built connecting tracks from the shared terminus of the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Maine Central Railroad south of the city center and the Grand Trunk Railway station at the harbor. With the opening of the new station between Cumberland Mills and Deering Junction, the trains of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway used the route of the Portland and Rochester Railroad and drove into the main station from the north.

From March 23, 1911, the operation was known as the Portland Terminal Company (also Portland Terminal Railroad ) and was led by the Maine Central Railroad. From 1933, Boston & Maine and Maine Central operated the railroad under joint management. The last passenger train left Union Station in 1965 after the station building had been demolished in 1961. A shopping center now stands in its place. With the takeover of Boston & Maine and Maine Central by Guilford Transportation in the early 1980s, the Portland Terminal Company also went to this company and was dissolved. Today, in addition to shorter freight and shunting connections, there is only the main line that connected the Maine Central and Boston & Maine routes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1999.
  2. http://www.trainnet.org/Libraries/Lib002/MEC.TXT ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trainnet.org
  3. Janet Greenstein Potter: Great American Railroad Stations. New York: Preservation Press, 1996, p. 541.