Dexter and Newport Railroad

Dexter and Newport Railroad
Locale central Maine
Dates of operation 18681868
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length 29.5 miles (47.5 km)

Maine Central Railroad constructed a Foxcroft Branch in two stages after completing its main line from Portland to Bangor. The Dexter and Newport Railroad was completed in 1868 northward from Newport Junction on the Maine Central main line to Dexter. The completed railroad was leased by the Maine Central the following year. An extension northward from Dexter to Foxcroft on the Piscataquis River was completed in 1889 as the Dexter and Piscataquis Railroad.[1] The branch became a major pulpwood loading point through the 1970s; but was abandoned in 1990.[2]

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References

Notes

  1. Peters (1976) pp.14&15
  2. Marson and Jennicon (1999) p.71
  3. Reproduction Maine Central Railroad, Portland Terminal Company, Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Company Hand-Book of Officers, Agents, Stations and Sidings January 1, 1917. Edwin B. Robertson. 1980. p. 14.
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