Rockland, South Thomaston and Saint George Railway

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The Rockland, South Thomaston and St. George Railway was a tram service in Maine ( United States ).

history

The railway company was founded in 1902 as the Rockland, South Thomaston and Owl's Head Railway . In 1905 they opened a four-mile-long electric tram from Rockland to Crescent Beach at the south end of Owl's Head , where the company also opened a resort. The route was only operated in the summer months.

In 1906 the railway company went bankrupt and was sold on November 15, 1908 to the Rockland, South Thomaston and Saint George Railway . This company resumed operations on the route and in 1913 or 1914 built an approximately two-kilometer branch to South Thomaston , which was served all year round. Another planned extension beyond South Thomaston via Spruce Head, Tenants Harbor and Martinsville to Port Clyde was discarded for financial reasons. Instead, by 1918 at the latest, the railway was shut down and subsequently dismantled.

stretch

The initial route of the railway began in Rockland on Main Street and had a connection there to the Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway , from which it also received the power. It headed south out of town on Main Street and continued down Ingraham Drive. Shortly before the junction with North Shore Drive, the route left the course of the road and led west of the road through open terrain. It crossed Weskeag Road and headed east to Smalus Lane, which it continued south on. Interrupted today by Rockland Airfield, the route continued in a straight line via what is now Benner Lane and Ash Point Drive. It then turned east on South Shore Drive and led to Crescent Beach. Shortly before the Crescent Beach Road it left the subgrade again and led over its own rail track to the beach, where it ended in front of the railway's own resort.

The junction to South Thomaston began at the junction of the railway line with Weskeag Road and led over this street and Elm Street to South Thomaston.

Sources and further information

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poor's Manual of Railroads. 44th Edition (1911), page 2070.
  2. ^ George W. Hilton and John F. Due: The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 1960. ISBN 0-8047-4014-3 , page 168.
  3. ↑ Map with the route

literature

  • First Annual Report, Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine. Sentinel Publishing Co., Waterville ME, 1915. page 185.

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