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Portland-Lewiston Interurban: a History of the Finest Electric Interurban Railway to Run in the State of Maine Osmond Richard Cummings Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl Books and Publications Special Collections 1956 Portland-Lewiston Interurban: a history of the finest electric interurban railway to run in the State of Maine Osmond Richard Cummings Follow this and additional works at: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs Recommended Citation Cummings, Osmond Richard, "Portland-Lewiston Interurban: a history of the finest electric interurban railway to run in the State of Maine" (1956). Books and Publications. 44. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/44 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books and Publications by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Transportation , ·;; ::. -~~J - ... ·· : •••• : ..... • · r.,~ ·: J·. : - , - ' ' ?('"~ !;0 ' ''" Volume 10. May 1956. Price $1.50< ,_, ~:,~, ,~ 1 - rt' :,o..l1 : ,': ', Warehouse Point, ... ., ., • ...onr.l, .... C ~ ~ ~ ey .., I , , Conn. · t· t . t . Chapter ,___ ____:• Copynghtc. , 1956, Connec 1cu Valley Chap t er, Natwna l Ra1Iway H1s on cal Soc1ety Inc. __ A History of the Finest Portland-Lewiston Electric Interurban Railway to run in the state of Maine. lnte·rurban By 0. R. CUl\1MINGS .. .... .···... .. .. .··. .··· .. .. ... .. .. ... ..... .... .. ... -~.· ..... .. ... .... TRANSPORTATION Vol. iO, Page 2. Transportation ....... Volume 10 ·: : : : .. ' Published by: Connecticut Valley Gpapter, National Railway Historical Society Inc. Warehouse Point, Conn. Published May -1956 This is our lOth year of his­ torical publications about rail­ .... ,• road and traction lines. A listing ~.. · of previous years' issues, copies of which are available for pur­ PORTLAND-LEWISTON INTERURBAN car No. 18 as it looked in later years with chase, may be had by writing orange paint on t·he front dash to promote better visibility at night. This view to the Publication Committee of the "Azalea" was taken at Deering Junction.- [Photo by Harold D. Forsyth. at the above address. A History of the Finest ern methods of power distribution Other data has come from the were employed and operations were "Electric Railway Journal," "Brill Electric Interurban Railway ccnducted in a careful and efficient Magazine" and various standard to run in the State of Maine. manner. reference sources, including files of Both limited and local service the Portland Press-Herald and were offered, with cars leaving each Evening Express and the Lewiston terminus every hour during the Daily Sun and Evening Journal. The day. Speed, comfort and safety was Personal assistance was given to the slogan of the Portland-Lewiston the author by Oscar S. Adkins of Porlland -Lewislon Interurban and it is notable that Auburn, Maine, who served as con­ only one accident of any conse­ ductor, motorman and dispatcher Interurban quence ever took place on the road. on this outstanding Maine pike. Although the Portland-Lewiston Others who provided material and Interurban has been gone for more information were the late Percy E. than two decades, it is still well· Weymouth, former superintendent, and fondly remembered in the area the Portland-Lewiston Interurban;· Introduction it served. William F. Libby of Portland, Theodore Santarelli of Boston and THIS is the story of New Eng- Gerald F. Cunningham of Wash­ land's finest interurban- the ington, D. C. PORTLAND - LEWISTON INTER­ Foreword Photographs have been secured URBAN-which connected Maine's from various sources and are cred­ two largest cities from 1914 to 1933. PORTION of the material for A ited individually. A high speed road operating al­ this history of the Portland­ most entirely over private right-of­ Lewiston Interurban was taken 0. R CUMMINGS way, it provided the best in passen­ from the article which featured the 300 North Bay Street ger and freight transportation for August 1946 issue of "Electric Rail­ Manchester, N. H. nearly 20 years and was abandoned roads," published by the Electric only when steadily increasing high­ Railroaders' Association of New way competition made continued York and written by Charles D. Dedication operation financially impossible. Heseltine of South Portland, Maine, Its 30-mile single track line was a Portland-Lewiston Interurban THIS history is respectfully dedi- of substantial construction-as well enthusiast of many years' standing. cated to all former employees buiLt as many steam railroads-and Additional information was gath­ of the Portland-Lewiston Inter­ its rolling stock was outshopped by ered from the annual reports of urban and to the memory of its two of the country's leading car­ the Maine Railroad Commissioners foremost promoter, the late W. builders, Laconia and Wason. Mod- and Public Utili ties Commission. Scott Libbey. L 3. PORTLAND-LEWISTON INTERURBAN Page 3. '"""""'~~ ....,., ., FINE VIEW of No. 22, the "Maine," at Maple Point, Auburn, in 7920 when car was new. -[From G. F. Cunningham. w. LONG DOWNGRADE paralleling the state highway was the scene of many a race between an interurban car and an automobile. The scene is Danville Hill, located near Danville substation. -[Photo from Gerald F. Cunningham. 4. TRANSPORTATION Vol. 10, Page 4. A intc beg the tw est Po waJ nus anc on Strc T the . im.t= lOll! tha EXPRESS MOTOR NO. 30 pulls out of the Portland Street terminal in Portland. Note the supports for the snow plow cha blades at each end of the car. For a time, No. 30 was used as a line car. -[Photo from Gerald F. Cunningham. at:E sen the rail Le~ 0 roac Lew the the1 on ice 90 (j B~ rail1 volv ear~ urbl •- Port def~ take com terel of l:l T~ Porf Fl L'~ b ~ m Le RIGHT-OF-WAY VIEW through Chandler's Woods, New Gloucester, shows the excellence of the Portland-Lewiston fa I track and roadbed construction. Trolley poles are on right and high tension lines at left. [-G. F. Cunningham. 5. PORTLAND-LEWISTON INTERURBAN Page 5. Portland-Lewiston Interurban By 0. R. CUMMINGS Historical Background ALTHOUGH the Portland-Lewis- the Lewiston & Portland Railroad, way. Promoted by the F. E. Hawkes ton Interurban did not come both of which filed articles of Co. of Boston, this road came into into being until 1914, its history association with the Maine Raill;oad being in 1906 and planned to run began 12 years earlier in 1902, when Commissioners in April 1905. Edison-Beach storage battery cars the first electric railway link be­ The Portland & Lewiston Railway in both passenger and freignt serv­ tween Portland and Lewiston was proposed to build from Morrill's ice over its proposed route- one established with the opening of the Corner, Portland, through West substantially the same as those Portland & Brunswick Street Rail­ Falmouth, West Cumberland, Gray sought by the Portland & Lewiston way between the Yarmouth termi­ and North Gray, New Gloucester Railway and the Lewiston & Port­ nus of the Portland Railroad Co. and Upper Gloucester to Auburn, land Railroad. There is no record and the college town of Brunswick, terminating at Court Street and of its articles of association being on the Lew~ston, Brunswick & Bath . Minot Avenue in that city. Its in­ filed with the Railroad Commission, Street Railway. corporators were Edward W. Gross and it seems likely that the project The roundabout route created by of Auburn, John W. True of New never reached that point. the completion of this new and Gloucester, Lewis A. Goudy, L. M. About this time, Amos F. Gerald important 15.:.mile link was 42 miles Leighton, Thomas M. Johnston and of Fairfield, a leading Maine trac­ · long, with a running time of more Jabez True, all of Portland, and tion promoter, appeared on the than three hours and with two Frank Ridlon of Boston, Mass. scene. A director of the Lewiston, ow changes of cars-at Yarmouth and Brunswick & Bath and the Portland !m. The Lewiston & Portland Rail­ & Brunswick Street Railways, he at Brunswick-~being necessary. The road outlined a route extending organized the Lisbon, Durham & service was frequent, however, and from Minot Avenue and Washington the combined fares of the three Freeport Street Railway on Dec. 31, Street in Auburn, through Auburn, 1906, to build a 9-mile line between railways involved in the Portland­ New Gloucester, Gray, Cumberland Lewiston trip totalled only 65 cents. Lisbon, on the Lisbon, Brunswick & and Falmouth to Portland, to con­ Bath Street Railway, to Freeport, Of course, there were steam rail­ nect with the Portland Railroad Co. road lines between Portland and •on the Portland & Brunswick. The road was to be 30 miles long While the articles of association Lewiston-the Maine Central and and its incorporators were Winfield the Grand Trunk Railway. But of the Lisbon, Durham & Freeport S. Libbey, Henry M. Dingley, Julius were approved by the Railroad there were few trains on either line E. Parkhurst and J. Frank Boothby, on weekdays and even poorer serv­ Commissioners on Jan. 1, 1907, the all of Lewiston, and John A. Morrill company was never heard from ice on Sundays, and the fare was of Auburn. 90 cents. again. Instead, later in the year, The articles of association of the Mr. Gerald formed the Auburn, Because of the inadequacy of the Portland & Lew}ston Railway were Durham & Yarmouth Electric Rail­ railroad facilities and the time in­ approved by the Railroad Commis­ way which was to extend from volved on the trolley line, there was sioners on April 26, 1905, and those Auburn, through Pownal and Dur­ early agitation for a direct inter­ of the Lewiston & Portland Rail­ ham, to Yarmouth and a connec­ urban electric railway between road on the following day. Charters tion with the Portland Railroad. An - Portland and Lewiston. But no of both companies expired in 1907, organization meeting was held in definite action seems to have been however, as neither had made any September, officers were elected­ taken until early 1905 when two progress toward constructing its and that was the end! companies, organized by rival in­ respective route within the two Then came the Portland, Gray & terests, announced their intentions years required by Maine law.
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