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Seashore Electric Railway Pamplets
Get PDFThe Seashore Electric Railway got its start in 1939 when a dozen men brought an open summer trolley car from nearby Saco. Now it owns 45 cars from 23 railway systems in 14 states and England. These cars represent the entire development of street and interurban railway transportation from the horse car to the dawn of streamlining. They include a former horse car dating back to the 1870\u27s, an all-aluminum interurban car capable of speeds up to 85 miles per hour, the last passenger trolley and the last electric locomotive to operate in the state of Maine, a double-deck tram car from England, a car carrying the famous destination sign Desire, a car peculiar to Los Angeles -- but known to movie-goers the world over and a sequence of a dozen cars from Boston.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1115/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Water District [1958]: New Upland Pond System
Get PDFThis map shows the location of a water tanks, pipe lines, and more for a new water supply system for Bangor, Maine, circa 1958. The map is not easily legible without zooming in very closely.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1112/thumbnail.jp
Annual Report, Bangor, Maine: 1958
Get PDFThe year 1958 saw more outward changes take piece in Bangor than ever before in its history. Construction on the Interstate Highway was well underway as Bangor received the first contract in the State because of a progressive Planning Department, which had a proposed plan ready when Federal and State money became available; the Capehart housing consisting of 530 units was under construction; the Bomarc Missile site; the completion of the new multi-million dollar runway at Dow Field; new modern buildings replacing dilapidated frame structures in downtown Bangor; as well as many new warehouses in our Industrial Park; and the virtual completion of the Main Street Interstate Bypass. All of these projects required close cooperation between the Federal, State and local government. The construction of a new upland water supply was started during the year. The city disposed of various surplus property with the purpose of returning to the tax rolls idle property, which if continued over the years, will help broaden the tax base. The Kenduskeag Stream parking project was voted down by the citizens but a serious parking need still exists, and something must be done soon to alleviate this problem to insure Bangor\u27s continued prosperity.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/city_ban_report/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Trolley Museum: Seashore Electric Railway on U.S. 1, Kennebunkport, Maine
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Since World War II, the trolley car has been vanishing so rapidly from the American scene that few members of the younger generation have ever ridden a streetcar --this despite the fact that nearly every one of our large cities was laid out around an electric railway system. Back in 1939, when the trend to other means of transport was already becoming irrevocably established, a dolzn men in Boston undertook to preserve for posterity, a single open car from Biddeford, Maine. From this modest start has grown Maine\u27s famous Trolley Museum, of which this is the official catalogue. Because the collection represents nearly every phase of car design and development, this booklet is also a history of the trolley from 1873 to 1931.
In all the annals of human endeavor, never has so large an enterprise grown and disappeared so swiftly as the traction industry. Less than 70 years have passed since 1888, when the first really successful electric car was placed in service. In 1921, the elenric railway business was America\u27s fifth industry, with 300,000 employees, a six billion dollar investment, and 15 billion riders -- twelve times the number of passengers carried by the steam railroads in the same year. Yet today, but six interurban lines remain of the hundreds which once criss-crossed the nation, and a mere dozen cities in the United States and Canada are still served by streetcars. Most of these are of the silent streamlined type designed by the industry\u27s Presidents\u27 Conference Committee (PCC) in 1936 to meet auto and bus competition. A rare thing indeed is the sight and sound of an old time trolley. Soon, even these remnants will be gone. Only in a museum will it be possible to see and ride what was once the world\u27s most important and certainly most interesting transport vehicle. Here, we hope to perpetuate for future generations, an operating trolley line, with original equipment, amid the surroundings of the era during which this country grew from a rural frontier into the industrial giant and world power that it is today.
The booklet is 44 pages. The last ten pages are the front and back of five separate postcards that were on view at the Trolley Museum circa 1958 -- and possibly remain on display there today.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1042/thumbnail.jp
Atlantic Shore Line Railway: its predecessors and its successors
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The 1949 SALE of the 3-mile electric freight line between Sanford and Springvale, Maine, to the Sanford & Eastern Railroad by the York Utilities Company, and subsequent changeover to Diesel motive power, all but brings to an end the colorful history of the second largest of the Pine Tree State\u27s four major electric railway systems -- the Atlantic Shore Line Railway -- known in its heyday as the Sea View Route. The Sanford-Springvale line was the last remaining segment under trolley wire.
At its height, this extensive 90-mile network of cross-country trolley lines, operating largely over private right-of-way, extended from Kittery to Biddeford, serving York, York Beach, Ogunquit, Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise; it branched inland from Kennebunk to Sanford and Springvale, and connected both Kittery and York with Eliot and South Berwick (Maine) and Dover (New Hampshire), as well as operating the ferry service across the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1029/thumbnail.jp
The Oracle, 1957
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Knowledge leadeth light to see truth
Down through the years man\u27s goal has been the attainment of knowledge. Parallel with this aim has been the quest for truth. Only by an unceasing search for knowledge can the feigned be separated from reality.
The aim of true education is enlightenment -- the stepping from the darkness of ignorance into the light of true knowledge. Education is not only book-learning but also the wisdom which is gained from actual experience.
Thus, having completed only part of our education, we, the class of 1957, still have before us, the light of knowledge, gleaming faintly in the distance. To exemplify this light, we selected the sun for the theme of the 1957 Oracle. The Oracle will serve as a reminder of what has passed, but the sun, glowing brightly in the sky, will keep ever present in our hearts the desire to advance into the future.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bhs_yearbooks/1020/thumbnail.jp
Welcome to Dow Air Force Base 1957
Get PDFA guidebook for new airmen at Dow Air Force Base. Details activities and sites on base as well as in the Bangor area.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dow_books/1004/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Public Library Annual Report 1957
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Public parks in Maine
Get PDFState and National Parks are designed to conserve the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations .https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1073/thumbnail.jp
Portland Railroad: Part I, historical development and operations
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When the last trolley car rolled through the streets of Portland, Maine, in May of 1941, it marked the end of more than three-quarters of a century of local public transit by rail in that important New England seaport. It was in 1863 that the Pine Tree State\u27s first horsecar line began operation there -- to form the nucleus for what eventually became that state\u27s second largest electric railway system -- the Portland Railroad Company.
This extensive network of urban and suburban lines, at its height, had 100 miles of track and owned about 200 passengers cars. From the center of Portland, its routes radiated in all directions into the surrounding countryside, to connect the city with the neighboring communities of South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Westbrook, South Windham, Gorham, Falmouth, Cumberland and Scarboro; extending southward to Old Orchard Beach and Saco, and running northward to conf\u27lect with the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway at Yarmouth.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1043/thumbnail.jp