The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad was a United States railroad company that brought rail service to Aroostook County in northern Maine. Brightly-painted BAR boxcars attracted national attention in the
The railroad's Aroostook Flyer passenger train, c. 1950s
Bangor Aroostook Logo 1918
Potatoes were important enough to the railroad that men were hired to tend to them during shipment. This worker's pass entitled him to a trip back to his hometown.
Bangor & Aroostook RR coach built in the 1800s, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Katahdin Iron Works
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The Katahdin Iron Works is a Maine state historic site located in the unorganized township of the same name. It is the site of an ironworks which operated from 1845 to 1890. In addition to the kilns o
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
…Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. The company was incorporated in 1891 to combine the lines of the former Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway. It was based in Bangor and lines extended from there to Oakfield and Houlton in 1894. The line was extended from Houlton to Fort Fairfield and Caribou…
Historic view of the iron works. Annotations are as follows: ore kiln (1), top houses (2), furnace (3), casting shed (4) and storage barn (5).