The Republican journal., 1905-10-12
Travel and Transportation.

| ~vOs ussu OssCROs NuNsVus
Running Plans of Maine's New Railroad.
Improvements by the Eastern Steamship
Company and the Maine Central Railroad.
NORTHERN MAINE SEAPORT RAILWAY.
When regular train service begins on the
Northern Maine Seaport Railway there will
be six trains daily, two passenger and one
freight in each direction. Besides that,
many extra freight trains are expected.
The one freight train in each direction will
accommodate the local way freight and
others will run as needed for the handling
of the immense business from northern
Maine.
The passenger trains will all be local.
The first will leave Searsport at 600 A. NJ,
Stockton at 6.10; will not stop at Cape Jelli-
son, will stop at Standpoint and Prospect
will not stop at Mosquito Mountain or
Mount Waldo, and will stop at all other
stations s-Frankfort, Winterport, Hampden,
Northern Maine Junction (Hermon), North
South Lagrange. 1t will pass Northern
Maine junction at 7.15 and reach South
Lagrange at s. 10. All the passenger trains
| will make the same stops.
The other northbound passenger train
will leave Sear>port at 1.55 P. NJ, Stockton
at 2.o5 passing Northern Maine junction
at 3. 10 and reaching South Lagrange at 4.05
The northbound regular freight train will
| be scheduled to leave Searsport at l. 90 P. NJ :,
Stockton at 1.20, passing Northern Maine
Junction at 800 and reaching South La
grange at $50. The stations where paSsen-
ger trains do not stop will be flag stations
| for this and the s0uthbound regular freight
trains.
The first southbound passenger train
will be due to leave South Lagrange at SIS
A. NJ, Northern Maine Junction at g. 10,
| Stockton at 1918, and arrive in SearspOrt
at 1925. The second southbound passenger
train will leave South Lagrange at $40 P.
| NJ, Northern Maine junction at 7.15, Stock
ton at $50 and arrive in Searsport at $50
These will make the same stops as the
northbound trains.
The southbCund regular freight train is
expected to leave South Lagrange at 100 A.
| NJ, Northern Maine JuDcgion at $40, Stock
ton at 1l.oo and arrive in Searsport at IL. 10.
| The sOuthbound trains will be regarded
as superior to those nOrthbound, the well
| known rule of the Bangor 4 ArOostoOk
Railroad being extended to this new line.
The sOuthbound trains will make close
| connections at South Lagrange with regular
trains from northern Maine, and the north
bound trains equally close connections with
regular trains Tor northern Maine.
| The station distances in miles from Sears
port are officially given as follows: Stock
ton Sc, Cape Jellison ~. Sandy Point IS,
Prospect 1O.5, Mosquito Mountain 1873,
Mount Waldo 13 8, Frankfort 1876, Winter
port 1872, Hampden 24.2, Northern Maine
Junction 2S5, North Bangor 34.5, Glenburn
37.S. Hudson 44.9, Bradford 1919, South La
grange $50
The passenger fares have not yet been
announced, and freight rates will remain
an unknown quantity for the present.
The new line has many bridges requiring
expensive masonry, in that respect being
similar to the Knox Il Lincoln and Wash
ington County lines which cross a large
number of streams flowing into the sea- 1t
must have been costly railway building
even though it has fewer deep cuts and fills
than stretches of the same length on other
| Maine roads.
The distances of the other terminals and
junction points from >earsport will be
| Northern Maine junction 2S.5 miles, North
Bangor 34.5, South Lagrange $50, Old Town
CSC, Milo junction $50, FoXcroft 1913,
Greenville l146 Brownyille II s, Brownville
junction 7j3 katahdin Iron Works 81. T.,
Patten junction 1900, Patten 1857, Ashland
junction 1898, Fort Kent 2446, Houlton
l76l, Fort Fairfield junction 2061, Fort
Fairfield 219.3 Presque Isle 211.7, Caribou
226.4, Limestone 242.2 Van Buren, 259.5
| IMPROVED LANDINGS AND SERVICE BY
THE EASTERN :. 5. co.
The Eastern Steamship Co. has leas ed
for ID term of 10 years the valuable wharf
property at Bar Harbor adjacent TO the
Maine Central wharf and known as the l..
| Roberts wharf. 1t has a water frontage of
11O feet, and work will begin at once to
make this enc of the finest wharf properties
on the coast, having all modern convent
ences and adapted to all the requirements
of the company. The plans, which are now
| being prepared in Boston, contemplate the
building Of a new wharf and freight and
| passenger station and offices at a cost OF
not far from $4,000, about 5000 of which
will be put into the stations and offices, which
will be thoroughly up to date in all their
equipments and furnishings. The landing
will be similar IN design and scope to those
at Camden and Belfast. The company has
an option on the wharf property and will
probably eventually buy it. The Rockland
Star says:
The operations contemplated by the East
ern Steamship Company at Bar Harbor
would seem to indicate that the company
expected a largely increased travel from
| ROckland to that point, which 1t would
seem could only be brought about by the
discOntinuance of the ferry from Faith to
Woolwich and the bridging of the kenne-
bee near Richmond. The ferry system has
already been taxed to the utmost and the
past season the delays have been very vex-
atiOuS on this account should the Maine
Central railroad finally conclude to build a
new line from Wiscasset and bridge the
kennebec below Richmond it has been init
mated by General Manager Evans that the
night train service all the year round,
which has been asked for by the Rockland
Board of Trade, would be given.
The large railroad operations now well
under way at Stockton Springs and an
Eastern Steamship Company wharf there
together with the possible extension of the
r.. 7. & G. street railway to Belfast will
tend to make points up river much more
easy of access to Rockland than they have
been. And heretofore this has been the
great fault with Rockland as seaport east
Of Portland 1t has had no adeG uate
northern connections.
Although the plans have not yet been sub
mitted a new steamboat is to be built by
the Eastern Steamship Co. in the near
future for the Blue Hill line. This new
steamer will be a screw boat and will be
somewhat larger than the Catherine al
though not as large as the J. T Morse. The
probable cost of the steamer will. be about
100000. She will be extra strong in con-
stIuctiOn and will be designed TO meet all
the demands of winter travel with attend
ant ice difficulties
THE MAINE CENTRALS PLANS.
Rockland, Me-, Oct. s. Closely following
the visit of President futile and other high
officials of the Maine Central railroad to
RUckland this week, comes the announce