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Trolleys Master Maine's Landscape

Portland, Gray and Lewiston Electric Railroad Station, ca. 1910

Portland, Gray and Lewiston Electric Railroad Station, ca. 1910

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Seashore Trolley Museum

Between 1903 and 1910, intraurban trolleys were joined by interurbans, which ran between New England population centers at relatively high speeds.

Interurbans provided farmers, fish distributors, and logging companies with another way to ship crops, hay, and timber more quickly and directly.