Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-25
10 the Honorable Board of Railroad
Commissioners for the State of Maine

| 10 the Honorable Board of Railroad
commissioners for the State of Maine:
The Maine Central Railroad Company.
Z corporation established under the laws
| q s3ld state Of Maine, located and hav-
! Ing IFS principal place of business at
tO5tiahd in the county of Cumberland
| sent Pe
That it owns and operates a line of rail-
Toad runnln" from Brunswick via Crow
| icy junction to Leeds Junction. and
lhence 70 Farmington that said road
was formerly known as the Audroscou-
hih Railroad; that said road crosses the
nam line owned and operated by said
| Maine Central Railroad Company running
| from Lewiston to Waterville at a point
ABOUT nine hundred seventy-four (97D
| feet edsterly measured along said last
| named road from the westerly end of the
! present passenger station at said Leeds
junction; mat your petitioner deems 1t
! necessary and expedient for the safe and
| convenient operation OF its said railroad
| TO make a change in the location Of said
road running from Brunswick to Farm
I lhgton 50 that the main track OF said
road shah divcrge from the present To-
/ cation At point about four thousand
nIty-eight Cio5O feet souJherly Of the
! original crossing OF the aforesaid main
/ tracks at Leeds Junction and connect
I with the said road running from Lewis
ION TO Naterville al a point about five
hundred forty 600 feet westerly from
the westerly end Of the aforesaid Leeds
junction passenger station; and that the
location q said connecting track is de-
=
The centre line commences at stake
marked Jt-,U in the centre OF the railroad
running from Brunswick To Pennington,
formerly the AMBROSE oggin railroad AT "A
point about four thousand fifty-eight
tiu3y feet southerly from the intersection
OF me centre line Of location of said road
and the centre line Of location of the road
running from Lewiston to WatcrvilIe,
formerly the Androscoggin &c Kennebec
Raliroad; thence nOrtherly on curve to
Inc left or westerly OF one thousand four
hundred thirty-two and seven-tenths
Q.iS!. q feet radius distance of seven
hundred tWenty-nine and five-tenths
U2t5) feet to stake marked 27t p.5:
thence on a tangent bearing north g. AZ
east distance Of one thousand ninety
and iivc-tenths q .C90.5) feet to a stake
marked l6-5o; thence on q curve to the
two Oni2) feet radius a distance of nine
hundred eighty-six and three-tenths
GN6.5) feet to a stake marked 6+63.7;
thence on a curve to the right or east
erly Of one thousand nine hundred ten
tl9luD feet radius distance of one hun
bred twenty-three feet and seven-tenths
b-o-D feet To a stake marked 5+40 in the
centre of the aforesaid main track of said
railroad leading from Lewiston to Water
vile; said last named stake being situat-
ed about five hundred forty (5iW feet
southwesterly measured along said main
track from the westerly end of the pres
ent passenger station at Leeds Junction
fourteen 15lD feet southwesterly from
the aforesaid intersection of said original
centre INES OF lOCdtlOnS.
This location is to cover a width of six
90 rods. being three go rods on each side
Of the above described line.
Your petitioner further represents that
II has purchased and holds in fee simple
the title TO the lands covered by the To-
cation and the connecting track above
described; that your petitioner does not
desire or intend to abandon the former
location but to retain and use the same
rs side or additional track for the pur-
pose of facilitating its business; that
53dd new location does not cross ANY any
toner has filed herewith a map or plan
showing both the old location and the
new location covered by said connecting
track.
Wherefore. the said Maine Central Rail-
road Company requests your honorable
board to approve the said change in loca-
ton of said road leading from Brunswick
to Pennington as aforesaid to be made
under the direction Of your honorable
board. and further requests your honor
able board to consent that your petitioner
in running its trains over said road from
Brunswick to Pennington may deviats
from the track as originally built and run
its trains over the connecting track con-
structod upon the new or changed loca-
ton hereinbefore described and such p0r-
ton Of the main line running from Lew
iston to Watervillc as lies between the
point where the new track above de-
scribed connects with 1t and the point
where the main line running from FARM
ingtOn to Leeds Junction as at present
operated connects with said main line
from Lewiston to Waterville.
Dated ut Portland, May Sth, 1900.
Maine Central Railroad Company.
BY GEO. +. EVANS.
Vice President & General Manager.
WHITE 4 CARTER.
Attorneys for Petitioner.
On the foregoing petition.
Ordered: That the petitioner cause to
be published a true copy Of said petition.
and this order Of notice thereon. three
lays successfully in the Daily Kennebec
Journal, a newspaper published at Au-
susta in the county of Kennebec. the first
publication in said paper. to be at least
five days before Wednesday, the sixth
lay of June, A. d. 1900, on which day the
board of railroad commissioners will be
In session at their office in Augusta at
zen O'CLOCK in the forenoon for the pur-
poses indicated in said petition. Said
petitioner shall send copies or the fore
going petition and order to the municipal
officers Of Inc town of Leeds five days
before the date Of said hearing.
]. b. PEAKS, Chairman,
For the Board Of Railroad Commission
erS Of Maine.
Dated this 24th day of May. A. D. 1900
A true copy.
Attest: E. c. HARRINGTON, Clerk.
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