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Maps, Track Plans, Aerial Photos

Updated January 25, 2008

 

Maps

Historic USGS Topo Maps of New England - University of New Hampshire

The Grand Trunk in the 1850's

1850 European and North American Ry, proposed by John Poor; also shows railroads built by that time

1885 Grand Trunk System Map

1895 Maine Railroad Map

Portland, 1837 (before railroads - Maine Memory Network)

Portland, 1852 (MMN) - note that Portland harbor is not yet filled in, but the A&StL has tracks to India St.

Portland, 1866 (MMN) - shows the general layout of the yard until about 1900

Portland Coastal Chart, 1866

Portland, 1871

Bird's eye view of Portland, Maine 1876. Jos. Warner, artist (Library of Congress)

Portland, 1884

Portland, 1895

Portland, 1905

Portland Topo, 1916

Portland, 1928 (MMN)

Portland Peninsula rail map from 1950's Maine Central RR map

East Deering, 1871

East Deering, 1884

Cumberland (Poland Corners), 1871

Yarmouth, 1871

Yarmouth, 1884

Lewiston, 1873

Lewiston & Auburn, 1884

East Poland, 1873

Mechanic Falls, 1873

Mechanic Falls, 1884

Mechanic Falls online tax maps

Oxford, 1880

South Paris, 1880

South Paris, 1884

Norway, 1880

West Paris, 1880

Bryant's Pond, 1880

Locke's Mills, 1880

South Bethel, 1880

Bethel, 1880

Bethel Village, 1880
West Bethel, 1880

Gilead, 1880

1895 New Hampshire Railroad Map

Shelburne, 1892

Bird's eye view of Gorham, N.H. 1888

Gorham, 1892

Berlin, 1861

Berlin, 1892

West Milan, 1892

Groveton, 1892

1895 Vermont Railroad Map

Bird's eye view of Sherbrooke, Quebec, 1881

Montreal, 1851

Montreal, 1853

Montreal, 1861

Montreal, 1915

 

Track & Industry Plans

CN Champlain Area Industrial Car Control Zone "X" - March, 1971 (Siding Assignment Numbers and track plans of sidings from Norton to Portland) - Courtesy of John R. Davis

Portland Yard after 1905

State Pier (1924)

Portland Company

Milan Mining Co. Smelter Works (Eastern Prom, from 1886 map)

Burnham & Morrill canning factory (B&M Beans)

GTR Plan for Renewal of Coal Handling Plant and Bridge at Back Cove Bay - July 11, 1918 - See this postcard to see how the coal handling plant looked; bridge was never updated (Courtesy of John R. Davis)

East Deering Yard (includes a plan of the earlier coal shed on Back Cove)

     East Deering Yard Throat

     East Deering Roundhouse with additions

     East Deering Machine Shop with additions

Eastern Forge Co., East Deering, 1886 (Earlier called Casco Forge, later called Presumpscot Iron Co.)

Yarmouth Fuel and Lumber Co., Yarmouth, ME, 1911 (South end of yard)

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

Forest Paper Co. mill, Yarmouth (closed 1923 - now a park)

Merrow Packing Co. slaughter house, Auburn

H. Wesley Hutchins Co. box mfg. & U.S. Bobbin & Shuttle, Auburn

Auburn Station

Lewiston Yard & Station

Mechanic Falls

Mechanic Falls Paper Mill

Mechanic Falls Junction with Maine Central/Rumford Falls RR

South Paris

Paris Manufacturing Co. (North end of S. Paris yard, famous for their sleds)

     Still in business as Paricon Sleds

Burnham & Morrill Corn Factory and A.W. Walker & Son, South Paris

Norway Tannery

Norway

Bethel Station

Skillings Mill, Bethel

Plan of West bethel Station, 1878 - 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 Library and Archives Canada

1941 Blueprint of a 220 foot extension to the pulp wood siding in Gilead

Cascade Mill - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Cascade Interchange - Courtesy of Brian Fons

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

Berlin Mill - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Groveton Yard - Courtesy of Brian Fons

Pointe St. Charles, 1881

Pointe St. Charles, about 1900

Pointe St. Charles, 1912

Bonaventure Station, about 1900 - also shows the Pointe St. Charles Coal Sheds

Bonaventure Station and Freight Sheds, 1913

Montreal Harbor, 1940 - Note tracks being built to new Central Station

 

Aerial Photos

Lewiston Junction - Maine GIS

 

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