The Portland daily press., 1886-04-03
Notes Along the Line.

The Portland & Rochester Railroad COM
pany have constructed substantial plat
form at the roundhouse alag station, near
Forest Avenue crossing, Woodford's, where
trains will stop for the accommodation of
working men to and from the city. Large
quantities of ties have been distributed
along the line as far as the terminus at Roch-
ester, N. H., and general repairs will be
made early this spring.
The road has been kept in good condition
all through the winter. People who are ac-
customed to travel over other roads frequent
ly remark on the smoothness and easy mo-
tiOn of the cars over this road The public
will be glad to know that there is an estab-
lished conveyance between Buxton Centre
and West Buxton, Moderation Village" so
called. Until within short time the milk
mans cart was the only reliable mode Of
conveyance from the depot to the Center.
After that people were obliged to trust to
luck" or go on foot to Moderation, four
miles further on.
Bar Mills, has been reconstructed, and made
a substantial structure. ChadbOurn's mills
at Centre WATERFORD, are manufacturing a
large amount of long and short lumshIT5' d
which is to be freighted oyer t9G S9a q ,o,a ~
nectoos IU@t an are mado at This station with Lin
erick. an enterprising village ten miles dis
At South WATERFORD, Mr.. Charles Smith
steam mills are manufacturing immense
quantities of all kinds of lumber. There
are many acres of ground covered with wood
and lumber to be shipped TO market this
spring. The Odd Fellows block, built last
season. is the prominent building in that
thriving village. The beautiful new depot
at Alfred is highly appreciated by the citi-
zens Of the place as well as sojourners. The
eye Of the curious turns in the direction OF
shaker Village as the train halts. There
are historic attractions about the locality,
and residences of the village, which has CIV
en- it wide notoriety During the past win
ter, large quantities of ice have been har-
vested from 'Shaker Pond" The mills on
the river furnish profitable business to lum-
Der manufacturers in that section.
There are few attractions in the immediate
vicinity of the station at Springvale, but as
the train proceeds on, the thrifty village
with its mills, sho shops and various indus
tries, comes fully to view.
The dividing line between Maine and New
Hampshire is the channel of the river below
Salmon Falls, a small river passing between
East Lebanon and East Rochester.
Rochester village is the terminus of the
road. 1t is an enterprising manufacturing
town, increasing rapidly in population and md
attractions. 1t is the grand centre of rail-
road travel.
If person in one flying trip ever the road,
at this unpropitious season of the year is
able to eSpy things novel and interesting,
why may not the admirers of natures beau
ties, and the careful observer of things, ex-
perience large measure of enjoyment few
weeks hence? after there has been Won
derful transformation in the appearance of
animate and inanimate matter.
1t certainly will be so under the delinea-
tions of the veteran conductor Berry. No
point will be lost, for every inch OF ground
within the radius of his observing eye is as
familiar to him as the finger with which he
points out objects, near and far.
A PASSENGER,