St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad
The St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad is a former railway company in Maine ( United States ). They operated a 34.3 kilometer standard gauge railway line from Calais to Princeton .
The Calais Railroad was founded on February 17, 1832. It built a 3.4-kilometer horse-drawn railway on wooden rails from Calais to Salmon Falls (later Milltown) and opened it in 1839. The railway was shut down again in 1841. The Calais Railroad went on July 26, 1849 in the Calais and Baring Railroad . This was founded on March 20, 1837 as the Calais and Baring Railway and renamed in 1839 and now built a locomotive-powered railway on metal rails from Calais to Baring using the old horse-drawn railway line. The line was opened in 1851.
On March 16, 1855, the Lewey's Island Railroad was founded, which extended the route over Baring to Princeton in January 1858. About six kilometers of the route ran in Canadian territory. For economic reasons, the city of Calais had to buy Lewey's Island in 1862 and initially continued operations.
With the purchase of Lewey's Island Railroad in 1870, Calais & Baring changed the company name to St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad . The Baring – Princeton line was then reopened. The railway was acquired on August 1, 1898 by the Washington County Railway , which later opened a branch to Woodland .
Today only the Calais – Woodland route, which is used by Pan Am Railways , remains .
literature
- George H. Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads 2nd Ed. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 2000, ISBN 0-89024-356-5