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Description
For several years the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and the Houlton Pioneer Times sponsored model train races in cooperation with the Houlton Recreation Department.
Divided into several classes, contestants raced their model engines for three laps of a 85 foot, double loop track, each pulling 2 Bangor and Aroostook Railroad blue, white and red model box cars.
About This Item
- Title: Model Train Races, Houlton, ca. 1960
- Creator: Richard W. Sprague
- Creation Date: circa 1960
- Subject Date: circa 1960
- Location: Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 25 cm
- Collection: Richard Sprague
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company--People
- Racing
- Toys
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company--Social aspects
- Contests--Maine--Houlton
- Model railroads
Other Keywords
- B&A
- Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
- Bangor & Aroostook RR
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
- Bangor and Aroostook RR
- Houlton Recreation Department.Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company
- model engines
- model trains
- Pioneer Times
- railroad
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Oakfield Historical SocietyPO Box 176, Oakfield, ME 04763
(207) 267-1294
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