The Norway Branch Railroad Corporation...owns the 60-foot-wide, mile-long, right-of-way to the old Norway Branch line. The line runs from Railroad Street in Paris, travels behind Androscoggin Bank, crosses Route 26, and is used as parking lots for Shaner's Restaurant and Bessey Motors. From there, it crosses Alpine and Pine Streets in Norway, and runs through a wooded area before ending at an apartment complex on Beal Street, across from the Norway fire station. Most of the railroad group's assets come from $50,000 it took in "about 30 years ago" when it sold land at the end of the line, where the station house used to be, to developer Bob Bahre - hence the name "Norway Station Apartments." However, the corporation also collects money from Shaner's and Bessey's, each of which lease sections of the right-of-way, as well as the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railway, which rents the remaining section of rail in Paris. Much of the Norway track was donated to help build the narrow-gauge railroad that runs in Portland, within sight of Casco Bay. According to Norway Branch President Dennis Gray, the railroad corporation pays property tax on its right-of-way in Norway, but is forgiven taxes in Paris since Railroad Street is built on its property. Trains last ran on Norway's side of the tracks in the late 1980s when the Wildner Wood Products mill closed. Even the rented rails in Paris see little use in modern times. Today, says Gray, the main business of the railroad corporation is to hold on to and maintain the right-of-way, in case some company along the old branch line ever requires rail service. Until that time comes, railroad directors occasionally lend out some of their money, through the town, which owns 75 percent of the corporation's stock. In 1992, Norway built on Aldrich Avenue what it called an "incubator building" and rented out space to four different startup companies. One of the businesses was Northeast Tool and Die - founded by three of the 40-some odd tool and die makers left without jobs when their old Great Britain-based employer, Clarostat, decided to close up shop in Norway. The concept of the incubator building was that as the four companies in it grew, they would move into larger quarters elsewhere, leaving room for another new business. The railroad corporation gave the town $25,000 toward construction costs. However, Northeast Tool & Die reportedly was the only one of the four original tenants to take off, and when Norway decided to leave economic development to others - "to get back to the job of plowing roads" - Northeast offered to buy the building outright. Norway used money from the building sale to finance the refurbishing of what would become the Fare Share Commons. It also loaned the tool and die company $75,000 to help in its expansion, with $25,000 of that coming from railroad corporation funds.