Keywords: train equipment
Item 18507
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad track maintenance equipment, ca. 1990
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Media: Photographic print
Item 14485
Bangor & Aroostook equipment, Houlton, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island
Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad
"Freight service consisted on one train a day every day covering the entire route. Trains frequently consisted on 20 cars each during the winter…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"At the time of purchase, the mill was equipped with a rotary, planer, lath, clapboard, and two shingle machines."
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
