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Item 5939
Title: The Geo. J. Magee steam locomotive
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1875
Media: Albumen print
Item 5921
Title: The Presumpscot
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1870
Location: Portland
Media: Albumen photopring
Item 8639
Title: Locomotive, Wiscasset engine house, 1931
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Wiscasset; Portland; Wiscasset; Portland
Media: Photoprint
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J.A. Poor and the Portland-Montreal Connection
John A. Poor's determination in 1845 to bring rail service to Maine and to make Portland the winter port for Montreal, along with the steel foundry he started to build locomotives and many other products, helped boost the economy of Portland the state.