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railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s operate in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and ...

Common freight carriers

* Canadian Pacific Railway * Eastern Maine Railway (EMRY) (Owned by

New Brunswick Southern Railway The New Brunswick Southern Railway Company Limited is a Canadian short line railway owned by the New Brunswick Railway Company Limited, a holding company that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the industrial conglo ...

) **Operates Woodland Rail, LLC *

Maine Northern Railway The Maine Northern Railway Company Limited is a U.S. and Canadian short line railroad owned by the New Brunswick Railway Company, a holding company that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the industrial conglomerate ...

(MNRY) (Owned by

) *

Pan Am Railways Pan Am Railways, Inc. (PAR) is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation that operates Class II regional railroads covering northern New England from Mattawamkeag, Maine, to Rotterdam Junction, New York. Pan Am Railways is primarily made up of former Cla ...

(PAR) *

St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad , known as St-Laurent et Atlantique Quebec in Canada, is a short-line railway operating between Portland, Maine, on the Atlantic Ocean, and Montreal, Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River. It crosses the C ...

(SLR) (Genesee and Wyoming) * Turners Island, LLC (TI)

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK) * Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railway (BML) *

Downeast Scenic Railroad The Downeast Scenic Railroad (reporting mark DSRX) is a heritage railway in Ellsworth, Maine which is owned and operated by the Downeast Rail Heritage Trust, which is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in the fall of 2005. The railroad ope ...

(DSRX) *

Seashore Trolley Museum Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars (trams), it also includes rapid transit trains, ...

Two foot gauge railways

* Boothbay Railway Village (

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

) * Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum (

) *

Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately of track in Franklin County, Maine. Former equipment from the SR&RL continues to operate in the present day on a revived, s ...

(

) *

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a narrow gauge railway. The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset, Albion, and Winslow, but was abandoned in 1936. Today, about o ...

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Defunct railroads

;Private carriers * Bald Mountain Railroad * Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad * Ray Lumber Company * Schmick Handle & Lumber Company * Seboomook Lake and Saint John Railroad * South Bog Railway * Wild River Railroad ;Passenger carriers * Acadian Railway *

Green Mountain Cog Railway The Green Mountain Cog Railway was a mountain railway built to carry tourists to the top of Green Mountain (now known as Cadillac Mountain) on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Its track was built to gauge, which is technically a narrow gauge, as i ...

;Electric *

Androscoggin Electric Company Androscoggin may refer to: * Androscoggin people, an Abnaki tribe who lived in what is now Maine and New Hampshire in the US * Androscoggin County, Maine * Androscoggin Lake * Androscoggin River The Androscoggin River ( Abenaki: ''Aləssík� ...

* Aroostook Valley Railroad (AVL) * Atlantic Shore Railway *

Atlantic Shore Line Railway The Atlantic Shore Line (ASL) was an electric trolley line providing passenger and freight service to many towns in York County, Maine, in the United States. The ASL was the second-longest trolley line in Maine, encompassing over of track. Begi ...

* Auburn, Mechanic Falls and Norway Street Railway * Auburn and Turner Railroad * Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner Railroad * Augusta and Waterville Railway * Augusta, Winthrop and Gardiner Railway * Bangor Railway and Electric Company * Bangor, Hampden and Winterport Railway * Bangor and Northern Railroad * Bangor, Orono and Old Town Railway * Bangor Street Railway * Bath Street Railway * Benton and Fairfield Railway * Biddeford and Saco Railroad * Brunswick Electric Railroad * Brunswick and Yarmouth Street Railway * Calais Street Railway * Camden and Rockport Street Railroad * Cumberland County Power and Light Company * Eliot Bridge Company * Fairfield and Shawmut Railway * Hampden and Winterport Railway * Hampden and Winterport Electric Railway and Light Company * Kittery and Eliot Street Railway * Lewiston and Auburn Horse Railroad * Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway * Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath Street Railway * Lewiston, Winthrop and Augusta Street Railway * Mousam River Railroad * Norway and Paris Street Railway * Old Town Electric Company * Old Town, Orono and Veazie Railway * Old Town Street Railway * Portland Railroad * Portland and Brunswick Street Railway *

Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway was an electric trolleycar service that ran between Portland, Maine, Portland and Yarmouth, Maine, from 1898 and 1933. Described in 1901 as the "new electric road", Yarmouth was "now a closer neighbor o Po ...

*Portland, Gray and Lewiston Railroad *Portland–Lewiston Interurban *Portsmouth, Dover and York Street Railway *Portsmouth, Kittery and York Street Railway *Public Works Company *Rockland, South Thomaston and Owls Head Railway *Rockland, South Thomaston and St. George Street Railway * Rockland Street Railway * Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street Railway * Sanford and Cape Porpoise Railway * Skowhegan and Norridgewock Railway and Power Company * Somerset Traction Company * Thomaston Street Railway * Waterville and Fairfield Railroad * Waterville and Fairfield Railway and Light Company * Waterville, Fairfield and Oakland Railway * Waterville and Oakland Street Railway ;Not completed * Portland and Rutland Railroad * Portland, Rutland, Oswego and Chicago Railroad

Notes

References

Bibliography

* Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in Maine
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 11, 2005. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maine railroads Lists of railroads by US state

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...