Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway
The Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway was a tram service in Maine ( United States ).
The railway company was founded on June 27, 1891. It acquired the Thomaston Street Railway , Camden and Rockport Street Railroad and Rockland Street Railway on February 13, 1892 with their respective concessions. These three companies were founded independently in 1889, but had not built any railways. The tram opened on August 1, 1892. The 34.07 kilometer long network consisted of four lines, two overland lines from Rockland via Rockport to Camden and from Rockland to Thomaston and two city lines in Rockland to the Maine Central Railroad shipyard and the Rockland Highlands. In Rockland, the railway was connected to the Rockland, South Thomaston and Saint George Railway from 1905 to 1918 .
The railway company held from 8 February 1901, the Knox Gas and Electric Company , the Knox County supplied with gas and electricity. Around 1919, as the tram traffic represented only a small proportion of the revenue, the name of the railway company was changed to Knox County Electric Company . On April 1, 1931, the company shut down the tram due to inefficiency and the systems were subsequently dismantled and scrapped.
Sources and further information
- Individual evidence
- ^ Poor's Manual of Railroads. 44th Edition (1911), page 2070.
- ^ First Annual Report, Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine. Sentinel Publishing Co., Waterville ME, 1915. page 186.
- literature
- Osmond R. Cummings: Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway. (Transportation Vol. 6, Part 1) Connecticut Valley Chapter, ERA, Inc., 1952.