Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-15
THE SEAPORT RAILROAD.
Crew of Nearly 1000 and Many Teams
Rushing the Work,

The work on the construction of the
Northern Maine Seaport railroad is go
ing ahead as rapidly as a crew of near
ly 1000 men can make it. From Stock
ton Springs on the south to the end of
the six mile stretch of railway which
has been built south from Lagrange
the work is being rushed and the right
of way is fast assuming the appearance
of real railroad. The exceedingly wet
weather during the greater part of the
summer and spring has retarded the
work to some extent. The rain not only
keeps the crews off the work, but it
sOakS the boys and swamps over which
grading is being done and makes the
work of grading difficult until the wa
ter has drained off again.
At Stockton Springs the big round
house which will house the locomotives
of the new road, is almost completed
and the big water tank with capacity
of 100000 gallons is also fast nearing
completion. AT Mack Point on the op-
posite side of the harbor a big crew is
ut york on the construction of coal
sheds. The work of wharf building is
still going on and the harbor front is
SuIltilS Va tHe IL
will have when the road is completed
and its cars are diScharging into the
vessels at the wharves.
The railroad station at Sandy Point
Is Practically completed. At present no
rails have been laid farther up the line
than point about mile from the ter
minal at Stockton Springs. There are
many bridges and culverts on this part
of the road and many cuts and fills. and
the track laying has been delayed until
the grading has been completed SO that
the track can be laid rapidly and with
out waiting for the grading crews.
Out at Hermon Junction where the
Seaport road crosses the Maine Central
tracks the crews are working day and
night to complete the work. The big
fill on the south side of the Maine Cen
trail tracks has been completed and
where the skeleton Of the big trestle
was a few weeks ago there is now a
huge embankment surmounted by the
r"adbed Of the Seaport Company. The
steel trestle directly over the Maine
Central tracks is nearly completed and
is being rushed as fast as possible.
The fill under the trestle north of the
but like the rest of the work. is being
:ushed. 1t matters little to the progress
of the construction whether this fill is
finished at once or not. AS soon as the
steel trestle over the Maine Central
tracks is in place trains can be run
across between the northerly and
southcrly sections of the road.
There is big bridge to be built
across kenduskeag stream IT, the town
of Glenburn. about two miles north of
the Bangor line. It would be difficult
matter to haul the large amount Of
heavy material required in the COLI
structiOn of this bridge to Glenburn
with teams so the contractors are anx-
lous to finish the rod from Hermon
Junction to the poirt where the bridge
is to be built as socn as possible. Tho
distance from the junction to the cross
ing Of the Kenduskeag is about seven
miles and over much of this distance
the grading has been largely CONFLICT
ed. The rails will be laid from the
junction to the crossing of the kendus-
keas as rapidly as possible and the ma-
terial for the bridge hauled there or.
tho cars