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Yard |
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This rather poor quality panorama took to digital processing better than expected. The 3 box cars are Grand Trunk 19754, Eastman Car Company #50019, and Maine Central #4039. When the switch lamp is 8 feet off the ground you know youre in Snow Country. No date or photographer info with this perspective. /DL |
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8/1/1900 Upload Date: 4/23/2017 2:38:58 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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RollingStock,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Yard |
| Description: |
This rather poor quality panorama took to digital processing better than expected. The 3 box cars are Grand Trunk 19754, Eastman Car Company #50019, and Maine Central #4039. When the switch lamp is 8 feet off the ground you know youre in Snow Country. No date or photographer info with this perspective. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1900 Upload Date: 4/23/2017 2:39:00 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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RollingStock,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Yard |
| Description: |
This rather poor quality panorama took to digital processing better than expected. The 3 box cars are Grand Trunk 19754, Eastman Car Company #50019, and Maine Central #4039. When the switch lamp is 8 feet off the ground you know youre in Snow Country. No date or photographer info with this perspective. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1900 Upload Date: 4/23/2017 2:39:01 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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RollingStock,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
October 1904 Time Table Extract |
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This extract covers westbound (south) passenger service in 1904 on the Bingham Branch. Looks like there was daily service with 2 trains in each direction. /DL |
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10/10/1904 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:11 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
MeCRR |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Building Gulf Stream Trestle |
| Description: |
Many references list this trestle for Bingham, however a glance at the Maine Atlas & Gazettier place the bridge in Moscow, Maine a few miles up the track from Austin Jct. A Google search on Gulf Stream Trestle will provide more info. The only note on the back of this old print is - Building Gulf Stream Trestle 1904-05 - /DL |
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4/1/1905 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 12:18:58 PM |
| Location: |
Moscow, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
Looking north across the Carrabassett |
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The road Xing right in front of the bridge is Elm Street, or RT 16 today. Date is an estimate.. /DL |
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8/1/1908 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:14 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
On the Platform |
| Description: |
There isnt much with this old pring except location and the year 1910... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1910 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 12:41:10 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
A snowy day |
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C1910 but that is just a guess. From an old Postcard simply annotated as: Bingham Maine. No date or photographer info. The photo card is quite sharp. The locomotive is number 12. There is a train number over the head lamp but I can’t make it out. This must be a passenger or mixed as several passengers with baggage are track side waiting to board. /DL |
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1/1/1910 Upload Date: 1/20/2016 1:48:28 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Steam,Track |
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| Title: |
Station |
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C1910? The platforms are all swept off and the track had been cleared, perhaps by hand. Note the guard rail on the sharp curve coming out of the switch on the freight house siding. Are we looking at end of track with a short switch lead beyond the passenger platform? /DL |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1910 Upload Date: 1/22/2016 9:39:11 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Yard,Station,Track |
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226 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Station |
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Just south of Bingham C1910 from a picture postcard. /DL |
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8/1/1910 Upload Date: 1/15/2016 8:31:27 PM |
| Location: |
Solon, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Yard,Station,Track |
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265 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
OOPS ! |
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Now this is a different RR scene. Date is an estimate. I call it the MEC Boat Launch, however I suspect things got a little out of hand on slipery steel and the tender derailing ended up keeping #361 out of the drink. Mt.Kineo is in the back gorund. The station & dock are to the right. MEC #361 a 4-6-0 is a class O Alco/Schenectady product with builders number 38171. Blt 9/05 & sc 5/48 CylL 21x26 with 63 inch drivers. /DL |
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8/1/1910 Upload Date: 1/1/2016 5:43:35 PM |
| Location: |
Rockwood, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Steam |
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| Title: |
MEC 1606 |
| Description: |
The hi-lite of this scene is the MEC cattle car #1606.. This Picture Post Card was postmarked April 21st 1914 at 5PM addressed to Dyer Brook, Maine... No amplyfing information. The scene is looking timetable east towards the bridge over the Carrabassett River. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1910 Upload Date: 4/9/2017 9:05:51 AM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Lakeside Station & Yard |
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Sidings, Station and the Kineo House c1910. The Kineo House is in the distance across Moosehead Lake. This was the terminus of the Kineo Branch. The area where these sidings are in this scene became automobile parking for the Kineo House in the 40s and 50s. Today it is public parking for a public boat landing in the inlet between this storage yard and the station yard to the right. The station area was vacant in 2008 and the crib work was in disrepair. Reminants of the station can still be found if you kick around in the weeds and gravel. In this scene two steam launches are waiting to take sports to the various destinations on the lake. The mountain on the left is Mt. Kineo a local land mark. Steam ship and train connections were carefully maintained back in the 20s. The turnaround time for an order to Sears in Boston was 2 days and 1 night if you got the order on the morning boat for Rockwood from any of the sporting camps on the lake. /DL |
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8/1/1910 Upload Date: 12/18/2015 12:07:22 AM |
| Location: |
Rockwood, ME |
| Author: |
E.E.Clement |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Yard |
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C1910 at Rockwood station looking inland, the lake is behind the camera. The steam boat is docked where the public boat landing is C2010. /DL |
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8/1/1910 Upload Date: 1/1/2016 3:15:16 PM |
| Location: |
Rockwood, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Yard,Station,Track |
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352 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RR Station & yard |
| Description: |
Date estimated... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1910 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:16 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
On the Platform |
| Description: |
No info on this old Picture Post Card. Date is an estimate. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1910 Upload Date: 4/23/2017 3:15:14 PM |
| Location: |
Norridgewock, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
Rolled Over |
| Description: |
Not much on the back of this old photo: - Near Bingham 1911 - too bad a defect in the print is right over the head lamp of the work train. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1911 Upload Date: 1/1/2016 1:25:56 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Steam,Wreck,Track |
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| Title: |
Station |
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This pre-WW1 colored postcard was postmarked in Madison on March 20th 1916 and was addressed to Solon, Maine back in the days before the wide spread use of telephone between towns. The postcard was published by Snow in Brunswick. /DL |
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8/1/1915 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 2:05:52 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Station |
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This pre-WW1 colored postcard was postmarked in North Anson on Sept 18th 1916 and was addressed to Oakland, Maine. The postcard was published by Holt in Madison back in the Picture Post Card era. /DL |
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8/1/1915 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 2:14:21 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Station |
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| Title: |
MEC #109 Working the yard |
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Here is MEC #109 a 4-6-0 working the interchange yard between MECs back road and the Sumerset Branch at Oakland. These photos comes from the Stillings Collection and are dated August 1st 1920. #109 was built in October of 1906 by Alco and came to the MEC from the Somerset in 1911. It began operation as Somerset #12 before it was renumbered to Somerset #23 in 1907. A class G on the MEC (18x24-55inch) it was scrapped in 1925. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1920 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 2:40:29 PM |
| Location: |
Oakland, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Track |
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MEC 109(4-6-0) |
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| Title: |
Working the yard |
| Description: |
Here is MEC #109 a 4-6-0 working the interchange yard between MECs back road and the Sumerset Branch at Oakland. These photos comes from the Stillings Collection and are dated August 1st 1920. #109 was built in October of 1906 by Alco and came to the MEC from the Somerset in 1911. It began operation as Somerset #12 before it was renumbered to Somerset #23 in 1907. A class G on the MEC (18x24-55inch) it was scrapped in 1925. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1920 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 2:40:32 PM |
| Location: |
Oakland, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Track |
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MEC 109(4-6-0) |
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348 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mill Stream Bridge |
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Back in the hayday of the picture post card just about anything could be the subject as this out of the way RR bridge is testiment to. This early Photo card was published by The Eastern Illustrating Co of Belfast in the early 20s The N.Anson postmark is for Octover 15th but the year is not readable It was addressed to Pittsfield. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1920 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 2:58:11 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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| Title: |
Station from Moosehead Lake |
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No date or other info with this old print except the location. It looks like the camera was on the upper deck of a steam boat when this scene was captured... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1920 Upload Date: 4/24/2017 4:31:20 PM |
| Location: |
Rockwood, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard,Station |
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| Title: |
Heated water tank |
| Description: |
This scene must be looking towards end of track at the station. No date or info except -Bingham- on the back of this old photograph. /DL |
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8/1/1925 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 3:05:50 PM |
| Location: |
Bingham, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard,Track |
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| Title: |
Time Table #50 Extract |
| Description: |
The Kineo Branch from MEC Portland Division Employes Time Table #50, June 27, 1927. /DL |
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6/27/1927 Upload Date: 4/20/2017 12:34:26 PM |
| Location: |
Portland, ME |
| Author: |
Maine Central |
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182 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Track Chart Extract |
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1/1/1960 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:18 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
MeCRR |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
From Rt201 Xing |
| Description: |
Bingham Branch at Austin Junction at MP P119.18. The Kineo Branch appears to have remained on the tangent, that is straight ahead. The track to the left heads another mile into Bingham. Note the Austin Jct sign on the right and the flanger warning just befor the switch. /DL |
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5/30/1966 Upload Date: 12/18/2015 7:37:20 PM |
| Location: |
Austin Junction, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Bingham to the left |
| Description: |
Bingham Branch at Austin Junction at MP P119.18. Kineo would have been up the ROW thru the trees. Oakland is 40 odd miles behind the camera. The railroad, as the Somerset Railway, reached this point in 1890. It was extended to Moosehead Lake in 1906 and became the Kineo Branch of the MEC in 1911. The last passenger run was made in September of 1933 at which time the track was taken up north of Bingham and the Junction became a Jct in name only. (Tip of the hat to the keeper of the Somerset RR page on Wikipedia.) /DL |
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5/30/1966 Upload Date: 12/18/2015 7:37:23 PM |
| Location: |
Austin Junction, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Lookling towards Bingham at MP P119.18 |
| Description: |
Bingham Branch at Austin Junction at MP P119.18 . /DL |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/1966 Upload Date: 12/18/2015 7:37:27 PM |
| Location: |
Austin Junction, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Looking south |
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Standing on the Kineo Branch ROW looking south at the Junction and the Rt201 crossing. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/1966 Upload Date: 12/18/2015 7:37:31 PM |
| Location: |
Austin Junction, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Looking North in 1966 |
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Looking at Google in 2017 the bridge still stands and track runs across it. The track is paved over and disappears into bushes on the north side of the road where the station once stoold.. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/1966 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:24 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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353 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Carrabassett River RR Bridge |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
5/30/1966 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:27 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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330 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Team Track |
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Pulp wood loading. I'm not sure of the locaton of this photo. It may be on the south side or the river. Any help in details would be used to update this text.... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/1966 Upload Date: 2/1/2011 9:55:29 PM |
| Location: |
North Anson, ME |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Bridge,Yard,Station,Track |
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