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Old Town Railway Station - Old Town, Maine

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19T E 528113 N 4975460

This depot stands beside the state's first railway, completed in 1836.

The photo is a vintage postcard, note the horse and buggy in the fore ground, and the other to the side. The postcard required 1¢ US postage. The 1¢ postage was used about 1898 to 1919. Dating this postcard early 1900s.

Then "Now" photo shows the Old Town Rail Station in much need of restoration to return it to its former glory.

Old Town Rail Station

This first railway, the Bangor & Piscataquis Canal Railroad from Bangor, was built from Bangor to Old Town. With construction of the line beginning in 1832, work on the tracks was on again-off again, as finances became available. Finally completed in 1836, the first train from Bangor rolled into Old Town on November 20, 1836.

In 1891 the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway were combined into the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR). Passenger train service on this line ended in 1961 and in 1995, the BAR was acquired by Iron Road Railways which, in turn, declared bankruptcy in 2002. The line was subsequently passed through the hands of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the Maine Northern Railway and the Central Maine and Quebec Railway.

In 1961 it is home to Old Town Redemption, a bottle recycler.