The Old Somerset Railroad: A Lifeline for Northern Mainers

The Old Somerset Railroad: A Lifeline for Northern Mainers
Author: Walter Marshall Macdougall
Publisher: Down East Books; (June 1, 2000)
Description: Paperback: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.55 x 9.05 x 7.05
ISBN: 0892724927

The Somerset Railroad was born of the dream to link the Maine coast with Canadian businesses and was begun in 1872. Though it never did realize the goal of linking Wiscasset with Quebec, for fifty-six years it carried people and goods from the northern woods around Moosehead Lake to southern Maine and New England. The Somerset trains brought trees down to the mills and hauled away the wood products. They opened new markets for Maine farmers and canneries. Twice they carried young men off to war, and the trains carried mail, and wares of every kind, and people too, visitors and vacationers who - until the trains cames - endured long uncomfortable carriage rides, or just stayed home.

In The Old Somerset Railroad, retired professor Walter Macdougall traces the history of this narrow-guage line, its development and construction, and the ways the lives of people living along the tracks became interwoven with the railroad. Using period photographs, Macdougall weaves a colorful and fascinating account of an unforgettable part of Maine's history.

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