Grand Trunk in New England Images

View of Portland from City Hall (I believe)

Roundhouse dome and depot visible in distance

View of old depot and Elevator #1 between 1896 and 1903

409 at the old Portland roundhouse, 1898

Engineer Will Jordan, Fireman Guy Swan

401 at Portland

Commercial St, 1853 - shortly after completion

Portland India Street GT station, built 1903

The GT office building - which still stands at the foot of India St - can be seen to the right.

Both the station and the office building were designed by Spier and Rohns of Detroit, Michigan.

The grain elevators are in the background

View from Fore & India Streets

The clock mechanism was not installed immediately when station was built; it is now at The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum

Portland station waiting room

The April 28th, 1963 edition of the Portland Sunday Telegram announced "Depot to Become Discount Store - Grand Trunk Depot Discount Mart Corp. will reopen the Grand Trunk Railway Depot at India and Fore Streets Thursday as a discount grocery store. The station's waiting room will be the display section and another part of the building will be used for wholesale business. Louis Botto, a local grocer, is head of the corporation. The railroad closed the terminal last December, but will continue a once-a-week run to Montreal during the summer months. Passengers will use rail cars as waiting rooms."

Sperry Rail Service at Portland

The clock tower was taken down in 1948 for safety reasons

Destruction of the station, March 29-31, 1966 - spurred a preservation movement in Portland

Portland Landmarks

From John Davis - "A lot of the building was dumped over the embankment near the Presumpscot River bridge"

Aerial shot of the Portland yard

Portland, September 11, 1965

4-8-2 6017 at Portland

Dr. Philip Hastings photo

GT 6029 at Portland

6021 at Portland

Joseph M. Williams, photographer

4-6-2 5289 at Portland Station - April, 1956

GT 3710 at Portland Station, 1933

GT 7527 on Commercial St, September 19, 1940

US Customs House, Commercial St., built 1867

Picturing Portland: A Century of Change from the Portland Harbor Museum

Central VT GP9 1776, Portland April 29, 1976

Portland Terminal 1002 on Commercial St.

Commercial Street in the 1860's

Before the building of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence, Fore Street was the street on the waterfront. The A&StL paid for building a wider and straighter street to connect it with the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth terminal. The city paid for fill and land damages.

Dyer Shipyard was located where the Portland terminal was built. Longfellow's birthplace to the left. Sketch by Charles Quincy Goodhue.

Franklin Wharf Elevator, 1876

View from City Hall, by Kilburn Brothers

Portland Harbor circa 1900 - Galt Wharf elevator to left and Elevator #1 to right

Here is a photo of the Galt Wharf elevator - you can see the conveyor using the zoom option

Steamship Parisian, at the Galt Wharf elevator, built in 1880 for the Allan Line Montreal Ocean Steamship Company; scrapped in 1914. Sailed from Liverpool to Canada and USA. This photo was taken before 1899, when one funnel was removed. In 1912, the Parisian was the closest ship to the Titanic with GTR President Charles Melville Hays aboard, yet the wireless operator had gone to bed; ironically, the Parisian was the first steamship to be fitted with wireless, in 1902.

Background: Elevator #1, built 1896: 160' high, 221' long, 97' wide; torn down in 1943

Right: Elevator #2, built 1902: 175' high, 300' long, 101' wide; torn down in 1974.

Timbers from #2 were salvaged to build the new Samoset Hotel in Rockland, Maine; the lobby floor was made from beams crosscut 3" thick. The roof is made from the flooring of the elevator.

Docks from Portland Harbor

Piers 7 & 8 were destroyed by fire July 27th, 1970

Photo courtesy of Stan Jones

Left to right: CV 4547, GT 4924 (?), 4443, 4558, October 10, 1968

"Switching Engine At The Grand Trunk Yard In Portland Maine", by Bill Paxton Circa 1950's

"GT India Street", Bill Paxton c1947

The Portland Company at the East end of the Portland Yard

Built many locomotives and marine engines, now home to the Portland Company Marine Complex and The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum

Portland Light Ship at Portland Company Dock

Maine State Pier

Image courtesy of Stan Jones

Portland's Ocean Gateway - Website on the creation of the State Pier, and the modern (2007) development.

The State Pier used as WWII Naval Operating Base; GT pier to left was also used by the Navy

State Pier

Portland Railroad Co. car for "Boston Steamers and Grand Trunk"

Falmouth Hotel on Middle Street

Photo by M.F. King

Ottawa House, 1853

Lemuel Cushing of Chatham, Canada, spent $10,000 in 1853 to build a resort hotel on a high granite cliff on Casco Bay's Cushing Island. He called it "The Ottawa" to entice a Canadian clientele.

Second Ottawa House - built 1888, burned 1917

200 guest capacity

Old Orchard House - Popular destination for Canadian tourists

Old Orchard Beach Boston & Maine Station; Old Orchard House in background

Special Summer passenger trains from Montreal would go straight to OOB

Peaks Island was another destination for Canadian tourists

The Peaks Island Ferry Co's Swampscott

The steamer Portland - Built by the New England Shipbuilding Company at Bath, Maine in 1889 for the Boston-Portland run of the Portland Steam Packet Company (later renamed the Portland Steamship Company) - lost in the "Portland Gale" of November 26-27, 1898. 192 perished. The 281 foot steamer departed from the Franklin Wharf daily (except Sunday) at 7pm. The 100-mile voyage took 8 or 9 hours and cost $1 per person.

Steamer Bay State

Ocean Liner Cornishman at GTR dock

Steamer North Star leaving GT dock

Old grain elevator is behind steamer, #1 elevator to right

Steamer Horatio Hall

Owned by Maine Steamship Co., used for the Portland to New York run

From Donald Bennett of the Bethel Journals -

From a post card produced for the Poplar Hotel located in North Newry just south of Grafton Notch. These directions were prepared for the 1901 season. The innkeeper produced similar directions for guests leaving from New York City - he suggested steamer from East River to Portland then Grand Trunk to Bethel.

"From Boston take the (rail passenger) cars at the Western or Eastern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, leaving on Western Division at 8:30 A.M., reaching Portland at 12:30 P.M., a distance of 112 miles. A car from the Grand Trunk Railroad is attached to the 8:30 A.M. over the Western Division, or you may leave Boston by the Portland Line of Steamers from India Wharf each evening, arriving in Portland the next morning in time to connect with the morning train on the Grand Trunk Railroad for Bethel. Boats land in Portland at Franklin Wharf about two minutes walk from Grand Trunk Depot.

Parties going by boat to Portland and taking the morning train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, arrive at Bethel about 10:30 A.M., and Poplar Hotel abut 12:30 P.M., in time for dinner.

Parties can leave Boston by Boston and Maine Railroad at 1:00 P. M., arriving in Portland at 5:00 P.M., and connect with train for Bethel, stop over night, and leave Bethel the next morning, arriving at Poplar Hotel at 12:30 P.M.

Round trip tickets at reduced rates.

The new Union Station at Portland affords close connections with the Grand Trunk Railroad."

Thomas Laughlin Co., late 1890's

Marine and Industrial Hardware Manufacturer across Fore Street from the Portland Yard.

Inset image is of the salesroom on Commercial St. - the original location of the works.

Established 1866, in 1836 T.S. Laughlin opened a marine hardware business. The company later moved to 2-20 Middle Street in 1955 as the Slum Clearance & Renewal Authority "Vine-Deer-Chatham" project had opened up land for redevelopment, as well as creating a railroad spur from the GT yard along Fore St. Acquired by the Crosby Group in 1958.

The location on Fore Street may have been the Eagle Sugar Refinery, owned by George S. Hunt

"Airplane photograph of our new plant"

Thomas Laughlin Co. from a 1941 catalog

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, corner of Hancock and Fore Streets. Razed in 1954. Longfellow sold A&StL land across Fore St. for the Portland terminal. The birthplace of Thomas Brackett Reed, Maine Congressman, was on Hancock Street

A&StL #6 "Coos", later GT #106, at Portland December, 1856; built by Portland Company in 1850. Earliest known photograph of a Canadian railway locomotive

234 - Built by the Portland Co.

255

CNR #40 - Built by the Portland Co. for the GT in 1872 as GT #362, restored and used by CN for the Museum Train. Now located at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

This is the only Portland Co. standard gauge engine that still exists. Only one narrow gauge engine also exists at the WWP&F

CNR #40

134, 1878

Built by the Portland Co.

#9 at Portland, built by Portland Co. October 1880

614 at Portland, originally #10, built by Portland Co. October 1880

519 Class M 2-8-2 at Portland, 1917

Left: Thomas T. Simard Sr., Engineer, Right: Fireman, Mr. Rabida

The Life of a GT-NEL Locomotive: The 519

Photo courtesy of Matthew Morse

7475 in 1956, Portland Co. to left

4448 at Portland on August 14, 1965

4446 at Portland in 1966

4903 at Portland, April 29, 1967

4442 - September 15, 1967

4444 - July 24, 1971

GT 4448, Portland, August 27, 1988

CN M420w 2578 Portland March 23, 1981

Photograph by Henry O. Preble

CN 4485 at Portland, June 1, 1974

GT 77971 at Portland

Jordan Spreader 50955 at Portland

Caboose 75962

Fish Point, M.F. King photo

The Victoria Docks were also known as the Great Eastern Docks, built for the expected arrival of the Great Eastern (Leviathan), which never arrived. The docks were later used by other steamship lines.

From a Portland Landmarks pamphlet

"Embarkation of the Prince of Wales from the Great Eastern Docks, Portland, Oct 20, 1860"

The Prince of Wales, Duke of Newcastle, Lord Lyons, and Portland Mayor Howard, October 20, 1860

Burnham Brothers Photo

The Great Eastern (Leviathan)

Portland Harbor, 1910 - Portland Terminal to right

Old Great Eastern/Victoria Docks center - Library of Congress

GT 4-6-2 5304 rounding Fish Point, Spring 1956

Last great Cutting opposite Coal sheds, Entrance to Yard, Portland, Maine

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir from the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Track Plan of the East Deering Yard

GT 7531 at Fish Point, June 1952

Fish Point was the location of a battery called Fort Lawrence during the War of 1812.

Photo by George Corey, Rail Photo Club

Plan for Eastern Prom, 1905

End of Portland yard to right (Fish Point) - Back cove bridge and junction with Portland & Rochester to left of center (station in Y; area now the sewage treatment plant). The jetty right of center was the William Curtis shipyard.

USM Osher Map Library

3411 along the East End Beach, July 29, 1954

William Curtis shipyard, 1863-1883

This area became the Milan Mining Co. Smelter Works in the 1880's, then the East End Yacht Club, a public swimming pool, and is now a boat launch/parking lot.

Portland West Yard on the East End being constructed in 1901, built to make room for Elevator 2

Trestle across Back Bay from East End, as seen from old bed of the Portland and Rochester/Maine Central RR

Dr. Philip Hastings photo

Back Bay Bridge and Coal Handling Plant

Here is a painting by Charles Beckett, ca 1850, of the bridge on the Maine Memory Network

470 Club excursion, October 5, 1975

Ron Johnson photo

Tukey's Bridge (now Rt 295) from the peninsula to East Deering; foreground: Cash Fuel Co. coal pockets with RR spur.

Russell Shipbuilding Company yard, 1919

by Johan Krouthen

View from East Deering - GT trestle and swing bridge in background

The hulls on the ways were likely part of the

WWI Emergency Fleet

Deering - Built 1904 torn down about 1930

1871 map of East Deering

1884 map of East Deering

Deering Depot - Veranda St. in background

GT 451 at the Deering Depot, 1922

Photo courtesy of Stan Jones

East Deering 1902

East Deering YMCA run by GT - was located at the East End of the yard

East Deering Yard, June 1956

Roundhouse complex was purchased by Houghton-Arnold Machinery

Gerald O. Boothby Photo

Roundhouse in East Deering, 1950's

Built 1901, Presumpscot Street; extant

Development of the Roundhouse by Boulos Co.

Artist's rendering

(At least they didn't tear it down, right?)

7527 at East Deering in 1956

CN 3274 in front of the East Deering Coal Shed, Sep 29, 1938 during the detour traffic surge via the GT NE to Montreal occasioned by the destruction to the CV's southern division from the Great Hurricane of 1938. CN 3252, 3274 and ex-GT engines 3420, 3421, 3422, 3425, 3427 and 3429 were all sent down to augment the Berlin Sub engines in handling the 64 doubleheaded freights that ran between Portland and Island Pond during the period Sep 23 to Oct 5. There were also several dozen engines drawn from other districts to assist the regular Montreal to Island Pond power for moving 90 doubleheaded freights between those two terminals during this period, and which meant more than a few "strangers" showing up in Island Pond in this service.

Gerald O. Boothby photo; John R. Davis text

GT 49 at East Deering in 1905; built in 1895

East Deering Shop Switcher #7110

Built by GT in 1895, scrapped December, 1932

5582 in front of the East Deering offices

Built by GT in 1910, scrapped November, 1957

2249 at East Deering, 1923

7527

GT 6029 at East Deering

GT 6029 on East Deering turntable

GT 6029 at East Deering. L-R: Cydney Barnes - Engineer, C. Clark, Roy Sanders, E. Acker, R. Holton

L-R: Roy Sanders, E. Acker, R. Holton

GT 7156 at East Deering, September 21, 1929

GT 3701 2-8-2 S-3-a at the East Deering Machine Shop, July 6, 1933

GT 3716 2-8-2 - East Deering, June 20, 1953 - Doubleheaded out with 2574 on first section of three Ringling Brothers circus extras

Gerald O. Boothby Photo

2170 at East Deering

GT 2612 at East Deering, June 17, 1954

GT 3432 at East Deering, March 1955

4448 in Portland, August 27, 1988

GT 4441 at Portland, August 20, 1988

Located at the East end of the East Deering Yard, the Portland Rendering Co. at 273 Presumpscot St, was the Portland stockyard.

Owned by Consolidated Rendering Co. (later Corenco), founded by the Swift Meat Co. Corenco was partly owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Under Corenco, this was a transfer station for funneling wastes from restaurants, meat processors and supermarkets to Corenco's rendering plant in Lowell, Mass.

Closed March, 1980 when Corenco's Maine operations were consolidated to Augusta. The buildings now house a number of small businesses.

This Track Plan of the East Deering Yard shows the layout of the Portland Rendering Co.

4-8-4 CN 6218 on the Presumpscot River Bridge with an excursion train headed West, Sept 12, 1965. This was the last coal-fired engine, and the next to last steam engine, on the GT-NEL

A brickyard was once located where this picture was taken from (now Rt 295). This is also where a lot of the Portland station was dumped in 1966.

Falmouth - built 1849, removed 1932

74093 at Falmouth, September 5, 1964

CN GP9 4483 being lifted by Montreal Auxiliary 50024 at Falmouth, February 1973, after hitting an oil truck

Cumberland (Poland Corners) - built 1849, burned 1916

1871 map of Poland Corners

Yarmouth, 1906 - built 1849; note the new station being built next to it

1871 Map of Yarmouth

1884 Map of Yarmouth

1911 Map of Yarmouth Station, canning factory and grist mill, grain mill

The Yarmouth Historical Society 2008 calendar has a much clearer image of the one above! And check out the museum when in town!

Yarmouth, built 1906, now a flower shop.

The Portland & Yarmouth Street Ry Waiting Room - Originally located near the lower falls, moved in 1906 to Main Street near the new GT depot. Click here to see a birdseye view of the Portland RR System in 1909.

Yarmouth Paper Co., built 1865 burned 1869

Preceded the Forest Paper Co.

Forest Paper Co. mill, Yarmouth, 1874-1923

Burned August 4th, 1931

Produced pulp for S.D. Warren Co. - first soda pulp mill in New England, now Royal River Park

Industrial tracks used to move wood, coal, and pulp can be seen in this rendering of the Forest Paper Co. which hangs in the Yarmouth Library

Looking downriver - digester to left

Wood piles at Forest Paper Co.

Pulp wood was delivered by rail on trestles.

Building to right was the Hodsdon Shoe Factory, leased in 1923 by the Sportoccasin Co.

In the distance is the A.D. Sands Ice House

Hodson Shoe/Sportoccasin Co.

Yarmouth Junction

Looking North on the Maine Central

Yarmouth Junction July 24, 1954

GT 3715 headed East to Portland; station was V shaped.

Yarmouth Jct - GT 3707 with CN plow 55312, December 1925

Aubrey Kenney, Sr. Photo

Pownal - built 1850

Pownal, 1910 - GT 710

New Gloucester - built 1850, burned 1940

New Gloucester

Maine Central train in background

Last Overhead Bridge
[on G.T.R. outside of Portland, Maine, 1878]

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir from the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

(I think this is in New Gloucester - may be

Veranda St in East Deering)

Danville Union Station, 1848-1911

Danville was where the Androscoggin and Kennebec RR to Waterville originated; the A&K later merged with Penobscot and Kennebec RR to become the Maine Central RR; in 1870, the MECRR built a line from Royal Jct (Yarmouth) to Danville Jct.

Danville Junction, Grand Trunk Railway, Station and Yard

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir from the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Signal house at the diamond crossing

Danville Junction

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir from the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Same view but with water tower visible

Danville Jct, built 1911

2-8-2 3432 with Train 188 from Lewiston at Danville Junction, waiting for Train 17 from Portland headed to Montreal

Dr. Philip Hastings photo

Train 17 in the distance crossing the diamond

Dr. Philip Hastings photo

Danville Junction, 1894 - GTR train is delivering the Maine State Building from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago to Poland Springs

Maine Central RR Danville Station

Poland Spring House Coach from Danville

CN M420w 2546 Danville Junction May, 1975

"Grand Trunk Danville Junction Near Auburn Maine", by Bill Paxton Circa 1951

Flatcar at Danville Junction with office trailer, August 3, 1982

Poland Spring Express Engine left from Danville Junction via Portland & Rumford Falls RR

Poland Springs RR, ex Maine Central #12, ex ex Portland and Rumford Falls RR #6

Wentworth Ricker Inn, Poland Springs

Poland Spring House, 1876

Lewiston Junction

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir from the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Poland Historical Society

Lewiston Junction - built 1878, dismantled in the 1930's and rebuilt as a private home

Lewiston-Auburn Branch

In 1873, Lewiston and Auburn constructed a railroad spur from Lewiston to the Grand Trunk Railway at Lewiston Junction in Auburn, then leased the branch to the GTR, which gave competition to the Maine Central Railroad. The Depot on Lincoln Street became the arrival point for the migration of thousands of French Canadians to Lewiston.

The Lewiston-Auburn Railroad is still owned by the two cities and has a number of industries served by the modern St. Lawrence & Atlantic RR.

Littlefield's, 1914 - Built about 1890

Little Androscoggin bridge in distance

ROW in left foreground is for the Portland-Lewiston Interurban built in 1914; station was probably torn down at this time

The Little Androscoggin Bridge of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban RR as seen from the Grand Trunk bridge

Photo by Mark Miller - Check out his website on the PLIRR

"GT in Auburn", by Bill Paxton

GT 3716 2-8-2 at Auburn January 28, 1956 pulling the Snowshoe Special, 2nd section.

Building to left was the H. Wesley Hutchins Co. box mfg. & U.S. Bobbin & Shuttle; nearby was the Merrow Packing Co. slaughter house

Gerald O. Boothby Photo

Edward Little HS in Auburn as seen from Main St. and the GT (The ROW was to the left and down an embankment)

Auburn as seen from Main Street

Built 1873, removed 1930's

Map of Auburn Station

1873 Map of Lewiston

1884 Map of Lewiston & Auburn

Lewiston

This photo on the Maine Memory Network shows the old iron Androscoggin bridge and some of the Lewiston yard.

Lewiston, built 1873, passenger service ended 1956, closed 1971 - still extant (was for lease last time I was by)

GTR 2nd 135 at Lewiston, c1893

3704 at Lewiston, May 12, 1956

GT 2-6-0 713 - In front of the Lewiston enginehouse, August 16, 1939

Gerald O. Boothby Photo

713 is now at the Canadian Railway Museum

GTW caboose 77965 leased to GT-NE in Lewiston, 1956

Grand Trunk Freight Leaving Their Yard In Lewiston, by Bill Paxton

Continental Mill was South of the depot

Spool Room in the Continental Mill in Lewiston

Published by Rideout & McFadden

Lewiston's Bates Mill - GT Station is behind this mill

Back on the Mainline

East Poland - built 1850, removed 1927

1873 Map of East Poland

East Poland Grist mill

Poland Historical Society

Mechanic Falls - Built 1883, torn down 1968

1873 Map of Mechanic Falls

1884 Map of Mechanic Falls

Mechanic Falls

Mechanic Falls Paper Mill

Mechanic Falls Junction with Maine Central/Rumford Falls RR

Mechanic Falls online tax maps

GT 126 at Mechanic Falls, station built 1883

Mechanic Falls in 1967

Mechanic Falls Junction Signal Tower

Grand Trunk is to right, Maine Central is behind tower

Mechanic Falls Junction, 1906

Main St. Overpass - Cobb's hotel is behind embankment to left, clothing factory to right

GT bridge as viewed from Main St Bridge

Mechanic Falls Paper Mill

Calendar/Ruling Mill and Main St. Bridge

Looking upriver

Mechanic Falls Shoe Shop (Postmarked 1903)

Mechanic Falls Maine Central RR Station

Cobb's Hotel, Mechanic Falls

Photo was taken from the GT ROW

Train on Buckfield Branch, Nezinscot River

Branch originated from GT at Mechanic Falls in 1850, later connected with and owned by MEC

Railroad disaster at Buckfield, April 27, 1869

Canadian National RS-18 3111 in Oxford pulling the summer only "Beach Train" to Old Orchard

Some of the worst specimens of 'Old Iron' on the G.T.R.

Between Oxford and Mechanic Falls

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir in the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Oxford, built 1884

Passenger service ended Sept 6, 1951

1880 Map of Oxford

Old High Bridge over Little Androscoggin

Construction supervised by Ansel Dudley

South Paris Station. July 31/78

Watercolor by John M.C. Muir in the Muir Album, Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party from Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1878, p. 69

Some background on the Norway Branch

1880 Map of South Paris

1884 Map of South Paris

South Paris

Mason Manufacturing Co., built 1906 - made wooden toys near the current Jr. High School

South Paris, built 1885 - now a dairy bar

South Paris, 1938

View of the Oxford County buildings

August 31, 1986

South Paris, 1908

#166 was the Norway branch engine

GT 6022, South Paris

South Paris - I believe brown building to right was the house for the Norway branch engine

GT 3411, Jan 6, 1952 - I believe in South Paris

3716 at South Paris, July 29, 1954

114 at South Paris in 1917

South Paris Freight Shed in 1991 shortly before taken down

Sid Gordon Photo

GT Hoist 95066 lifting girders for the High Bridge at South Paris, Spring 1912

Photos by Edward L. Greene

North end of South Paris yard, September 13, 1965

#325 near South Paris

Caboose 75960 at S. Paris, August 31, 1986

Paris Manufacturing Co.

Sleds made by Paris Mfg.

Norway Branch

Norway - Built 1879, removed 1968

1880 Map of Norway

Norway

Norway - September 13, 1967

Norway Branch originated in South Paris

Passenger service ended in 1946

Norway Shoe Factory

Wilner's Wood Products in South Paris on the Norway Branch. CV 3605, April 1982

Sid Gordon Photo

CV 4558 at Wilner's, April 1983

Sid Gordon Photo

Back on the Mainline

West Paris - Built 1851, razed 1968

Originally North Paris, changed to West Paris in 1858; renamed Bates in 1909 to avoid train order confusion with Paris

1880 Map of West Paris

Paris Manufacturing Co. in West Paris - Station to right

West Paris Feldspar mill operated by the Oxford Mining and Milling Co. Much of the feldspar from West Paris was shipped to England to make glaze for chinaware, but was also used to make spark plugs, electrical insulators, and abrasives in cleaning powder.

Bryant's Pond - Built 1851, closed 1958, torn down 1968

The Bryant's Pond Stage, driven by Joseph Tuttle, had a regular run to Andover and Rumford's Falls

1880 Map of Bryant's Pond

Bryant Pond

Bryant Pond - Train headed East

Locke's Mills - Built 1851, closed 1958, torn down 1972

1880 Map of Locke's Mills

Lockes Mills Depot from Route 26, circa 1946

River scene along the GT

Bethel - built 1865, razed in 1968

The Bethel Chair Company mill, established in 1886, appears at far right

Bethel Historical Society

1880 Map of Bethel

1880 Map of South Bethel

1880 Map of Bethel Depot Area

Bethel Depot

Excellent site on the railroad in the Bethel area: Railroad Journal

Bethel Historical Society

3709 at Bethel, July 29, 1954

GT 4902 at Bethel

Bethel Grain Mill (left), Lower Main St - Tracks ran behind mill

"Potato John's" Barn, trackside

Last remaining Grand Trunk structure in Bethel

From Depot Street

West Bethel - Built 1851, changed to Allens 1919 (to avoid confusion with Bethel), razed 1967

1880 Map of West Bethel

Allens (West Bethel) - October 17, 1961

Allens station being torn down in 1967

Gilead about 1895

Gilead

Bethel Historical Society's Gilead page

1880 Map of Gilead

Wild River RR #4 at Gilead with Hastings Lumber Co. baggage car, circa 1890

Wild River RR interchanged with GT in Gilead, running up Wild River to Hastings Village

Gilead road suspension bridge, built 1872 replaced 1923

Detail of end

Wild River Railroad/Hastings Lumber Co. Railroad

Wild River RR Map

Bird's Eye Map of Hastings

From the USGS page on Hastings:

Logging has been important in the land-use history of the Wild River Basin. Between 1890 and 1903, a logging railroad was operated along the river as far upstream as Red Brook and along the Bull Brook and Moriah Brook tributaries. During this period, several logging camps and mills were operated in the basin, and more than 300 people lived in the town of Hastings, which was near the current site of the Hastings Campground. Following a large fire in 1903 that destroyed several thousand hectares of timber in the headwater areas of the basin, the Hastings Lumber Company sold its land to the Federal Government, and by 1912 Hastings had become a ghost town. Between 1933 and 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed State Highway 113 between Gilead and Evans Notch and converted several old railroad grades into hiking trails.

L.L. Bean operated a "Dew Drop Inn" hunting camp at one of the Wild River lumber camps

Recommended reading:

The Wild River Wilderness, DB Wight, 1971

Logging Railroads of the White Mountains, C. Francis Belcher

Hastings, Chapman & Reiche, Gilead Historical Society, 2006

Hastings Lumber Co. and Village

Hastings Lumber Co. - Wild River RR #1 Shay,

the "Mud Turtle"

Wild River RR #1 Shay, "GILEAD"

Hastings Lumber Co., Wild River RR #3

Wild River RR #1

Wild River RR log train stalled near Gilead in deep snow, 1892, Shay #3. Photo is stamped Laurence Breed Walker

Brian Fons Collection

Wild River #3 Shay, 50 tonner, 1891 at Hastings, ME. Shay is ex BC Garland #1 of Saco Valley Lumber Co, Crawford Notch NH.

Brian Fons Collection

Wild River RR #4 2-4-2t built by Baldwin

Later Berlin Mills RR #5

Wild River RR #4

Wild River RR Baldwin #4 2-4-2t at Hastings Village Mill no date.

Brian Fons Collection

Wild River RR #6 Shay

The Wild River RR also had a wood-burning 4-4-0 "Hyde Park", built by the Portland Co.

Back on the Mainline

Androscoggin causeway, East of Gorham

October 4, 1950

Beyond Brown Paper

White Mountain Station, built 1851

Gorham's first station - became Alpine House

1892 Map of Gorham

Alpine House

100'x50' with 80'x40' ell - 100 guest capacity

Gorham - From Bird's eye view of Gorham, 1888

Gorham, NH, with Mt. Madison House to left

Built 1907, now the historical society home

Gorham station and town hall

Part of old Gorham shops to left, coal chute in distance

Gorham - part of old shops, built in 1851, to right

GT 1862 at the Gorham enginehouse, 1954

Gorham enginehouse, November 1959

Brian Fons Collection

3716 at Gorham enginehouse, July 29, 1954

Gorham Coal Chute, October 8, 1961

Gorham Coal Chute

Libby's Mills on the Peabody River, Gorham

From Bird's eye view of Gorham, 1888

E. Libby and Sons sawmill

View from Mt. Madison House

Appears to be a tool shed and maybe a gateman's shanty in middle by tracks

Gorham from Point Lookout

The coal shed can be seen to the right and the wye - built to replace the turntable - is visible in the center

Mt. Madison House - Alpine House was purchased by Charles A. Chandler and moved to Main Street, and joined with the Alpine House (formerly Eagle House) to form Mt. Madison House

Summit House on Mt Washington, built 1852

Kilburn Brothers, Photographers

In 1850, the Atlantic & St. Lawrence RR paid for rebuilding the road from Gorham into Pinkham Notch. Further, the railroad financed the construction of the Glen Bridle Path to the summit of Mount Washington.

From Mt. Washington Auto Road History

Mount Washington from the back of the Glen House looking across Pinkham Notch

Ferdinand Richardt, 1857

The first Glen House, built 1851, enlarged to over 400 feet long, burned down October 1, 1884

Kilburn Brothers Photographers

Second Glen House, built 1886 burned July 16, 1893

Boston & Maine (originally Concord & Montreal) bridge over GT, Gorham

Log train crossing B&M bridge

Guy Shorey, Photographer

Brown & Co. Cascade Mill, Gorham, 1882

Brown Company, 1883

Brown Co., 1888

Brown & Co., 1920's

Cascade Mill - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Brown & Co.

Cascade Mill

Brown & Co, GT passenger train, 1952

Restored as Groveton Paper Co. No. 7

GT bridge crossing Androscoggin at Cascade; B&M overpass visible in distance

Beyond Brown Paper

Berlin Mills Railway diesel transferring steel girders from B&M at Cascade Interchange

September 6, 1950

Beyond Brown Paper

122 near Berlin, October 1877

Berlin station, 1884

1861 Map of Berlin

1892 Map of Berlin

Old Berlin Station in June, 1902, with the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus; Chick Shoe Co. can be seen in the distance

Berlin Historical Society

Berlin, built 1917 (extant)

Armour Company on Union Street

Chick Shoe Co., Berlin

Was located near the station

Berlin Manufacturing Co., near the station

Berlin YMCA

Berlin Mills Company Sawmill, built 1852

GT 2611 at Berlin, c1948

Dr. Philip R. Hastings Photo

International Paper Co. Plant, formerly Glen Manufacturing

Berlin Yards - Top to bottom: Cascade Interchange, Berlin B&M Station, Mill Yard - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Berlin Mill (modern) - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Beyond Brown Paper - Website documenting photos of the Brown Paper Co. in Berlin

Berlin from the North

From a Beyond Brown Paper postcard

Burgess Sulphite Paper Mill

Brown Co. Bermico Plant, 1953

A New Hampshire Lumber Camp in the 1890's

Berlin Mills Ry #10

Berlin Mills Railway No. 7 at Steamtown Includes history of Berlin Mills/Brown & Co.

Berlin - lower grade is spur to mills

Berlin enginehouse

Berlin Street Railway car at Berlin Mills June 26, 1934, built by Laconia (NH) Car Works

Berlin Falls, by JP Soule

Millsfield RR 1st #5 Climax, ex-Conway Co. #5

The Berlin Co. railroad ran North of Berlin

Blanchard & Twitchell Co. Shay, Success Pond RR #6 "BYRON", Berlin

Later became Wild River RR #3 out of Gilead

Success Pond RR ran East from Berlin, 1894-1907

Success Pond RR Map

Success Pond RR's "Berlin"

GT 5304 at West Milan, 1952

Dr. Philip R. Hastings Photo

1892 Map of West Milan

West Milan

Ammonoosuc Lumber Co. Mill

Ammonoosuc Lumber Co.'s 25 mile logging railroad originated from West Milan, 1892-1903

Upper Ammonoosuc Railroad Map

Crystal

Percy

Stark

Bridge East of Groveton

Groveton Union Station

Groveton, built 1893, currently vacant

1892 Map of Groveton

Groveton Yard - Courtesy of Brian Fons

4551 at Groveton, 1967

Odell Mills - Groveton, NH

Groveton Paper Co.

Groveton Eagle House - on Main St. near depot

North Stratford, 1979

North Stratford

GT 4443 in North Stratford

Brian Fons Collection

North Stratford from Stevens Hill

Postmarked 1915

Maine Central RR North Stratford Station

New Hampshire Stave & Heading Co. RR (Warner Sugar Refining Co.) #3 Shay, North Stratford, NH (made sugar barrels)

New Hampshire Stave & Heading Mill #1 Shay "WARNER'S MILL"

#2 Shay

Camp 4 of the NH Stave & Heading Co. in 1909

North Stratford Willard House

North Stratford Town Hall

Bloomfield, VT - North Stratford, NH

CT River bridge, Nulhegan Lumber Co. to left

Island Pond, 1864

Depot and freight house in distance

Island Pond - not sure where

Island Pond, VT, late 1800's

Island Pond, VT, footbridge, late 1800's

Stewart House in background

Island Pond Station built 1903

Island Pond RR YMCA

Was located just North of the station

Caboose 75954 at Island Pond, January 22, 1972

Last year-round passenger train at IP, 1960

Click on photo to read caption and story

Courtesy of Matthew Morse

GT 6029 and 7530, Island Pond - note coaling dock in distance

Dr. Philip R. Hastings Photo

Island Pond

Looking East from the footbridge

Looking West from the coal dock - shops and roundhouse to right

Pipe in upper right is probably for sand

Island Pond, 1917

Episcopal Church and Stewart House to left