Somerset and Kennebec Railroad
The Somerset and Kennebec Railroad is a former railway company in Maine ( United States ). It was founded on August 10, 1848 . Their only route connected in Augusta to the Portland and Kennebec Railroad, which was completed in 1852, and ran from there through the valley of the Kennebec River via Waterville , where there was a connection to the broad gauge lines of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad and the Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad , to after Skowhegan . The Augusta– Kendall's Mill section was opened in 1855, the remaining section of the 59.5 kilometer standard-gauge line followed in December 1857. An extension of 22.5 kilometers to Carritunk Falls planned in the early 1870s was never built.
Portland & Kennebec, which Somerset & Kennebec had leased, was in charge of operations from the start. Both companies went into the possession of the Maine Central Railroad on November 16, 1874 . The line is no longer in operation today.
literature
- George H. Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads 2nd Ed. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 2000, ISBN 0-89024-356-5
- Poor's Manual of Railroads, 44th Annual Number. Poor's Railroad Manual Co., 1911.