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Gorham Historical Society & Railroad Museum
St. Lawrence & Atlantic Yahoo Mailing List
The
Bethel Journals
Wild River Trail (follows part of the Wild River Railroad grade, which ran from Gilead into the White Mtns)
Gorham, NH History, 1888 - Gives a good description (about halfway down) of the yard and shops located here before engine servicing was relocated to Island Pond.
GTR 713 - The 2-6-0 engine that pulled many trains on the Lewiston Branch is on display at the Canadian Railway Museum, Saint-Constant, Quebec
Camp Stark: German Prisoner of War Camp in Stark, NH - Prisoners were brought in by GT
A Historical Geography of the Portland Waterfront
Maine Historical Society Maine Memory Network
Mt. Washington Auto Road - Begun by the Atlantic & St. Lawrence in 1850 as the Glen Bridle Path
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace monument - Across Fore Street from the India Street Terminal; Longfellow sold land to the A&StL for the yard.
Former feldspar mill in West Paris (#42)
Granite Quarries in Pownal, Oxford, and Bryant Pond
Panorama of the Auburn-Lewiston Bridge (you can even look up and down)
Portland's Ocean Gateway - Development of the State Pier; has excellent history write-up and photos
A History of Middle Street, Portland Maine, 1727-1977, by Nicholas Barker
1875 C.H. Brown Stationary Steam Engine - Powered the Libby lumber mill in Gorham until about 1950
The Question of Adopting a Single Gauge in Maine - Portland Weekly Advertiser, January 28, 1870
Interviews with Guy Swan, Edward C. Peverley, and Everett Smith about the Grand Trunk railroad wreck of January 18, 1901 in Bethel, Maine. Maine Folklife Center tapes 987-989 (they are in the process of digitizing their holdings).
Article on GT's Adjustable-Gauge Trucks
"Beyond Brown Paper" - Website documenting photos of the Brown Paper Co. in Berlin
The Mill Yard Project - "A dynamic memorial in the city of Berlin, NH"
Berlin Mills Railway No. 7 at Steamtown -- Includes history of Berlin Mills/Brown & Co.
Restored as Groveton Paper Co. No. 7
Foundation of (Portland's) first railroad station unearthed - Reader comment also mentions the timbers from the elevators were used in Rockland's Samoset
Auburn Feldspar Mine - Ore was ground next to Littlefield Station
Safe Handling, Inc - Bulk product transportation and toll processing company in Auburn.
The Genesee & Wyoming Railroad History and Locomotives
1888 Islandpond/Brighton Town Directory
Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec Digital Collection
Griffintown and Point St. Charles, Montreal
Canadian Science and Technology Museum Canadian National Images
McCord Museum of Canadian History
The Railways of Canada Archives
CN Lines Special Interest Group
Canadian National Railways Motive Power Statistics
Historic USGS Topo Maps of New England
Railroad Stations in New Hampshire
Significant Extant Railroad/Railway Structures of North America
Canadian Freight Cars - A resource page for the Canadian Freight Car Enthusiast (includes histories of some Canadian GTR shops and car builders)
Downeast Rail Heritage Preservation Trust - "To celebrate and preserve the railroad history of Downeast Maine"
Grand Trunk Western Historical Society
Central Vermont Railway Historical Society
Logging in Lincoln, NH - The Mills, the People, the Logging Railroads
Aerial Photographs with Terraserver - Satellite imagery
Maine Aerial Photography (higher resolution than terraserver or google)
Topozone - Current topo maps and aerial photography
The "470" Railroad Club - Established in 1954 to commemorate the last run of a steam locomotive, No. 470, in passenger service on the Maine Central Railroad.
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum - Based at the Portland Company, trains run from the old GT Portland Yard to the Back Cove Bridge
Maine Paranormal Research Association's Investigation of the Lewiston Station
W&H Railroad - "a site for the archiving of historical and informational documents and binaries concerning Railroads, Railfanning and Model Railroading"
Eastern Prom Trail - Follows GT railbed
Boston & Maine RR Historical Society
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake RR
National Militant Railfan Organization - OK, so a little different, but they have a CD with many Northeast track profiles
boréal tordu - Maine Acadian music - what would have been heard all around Lewiston/Auburn in the evenings!
The Island and Shore Gems of Beautiful Casco Bay, Portland, Maine (1892)
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