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Atlantic Shore Trolleys By O R Cummings Soft Cover NE ERHS #2
Atlantic Shore Trolleys By O R Cummings Soft Cover New England Electric Railway Society Bulletin #2
55 Pages Sticker remains upper corner
Copyright 1966
Development of the system 1889-1907
The Atlantic Shore Railway
Facilities
Rolling Stock
Passenger Service 1893-1922
Freight and Express 1893-1922
Riding the Lines
York Utilities Company 1923-1949
INTRODUCTION
Extending southerly from Biddeford through Kennebunkport Kennebunk. Wells Township and York to Kittery; from Kittery and York to Dover, N. H. and to South Berwick, and from Kennebunk to Sanford and Springvale the Atlantic Shore Line Railway and its successor, the Atlantic Shore Railway, comprised Maine's second largest electric railway system from 1907 to 1917. More than 90 miles of track were operated by this road, which provided both passenger and freight service throughout finch of the Pine Tree State's York County.
"Trolleys to York Beach," published in 1965 covered the Atlantic Shore Line's Western Division, which consisted of lines built by the Portsmouth Dover & York Street Railway and its predecessors the Portsmouth. Kittery & York, the Kittery & Eliot, the Berwick Eliot & York and the Dover & Eliot Street Railways
This volume, "Atlantic Shore Trolleys," is concerned with the Eastern Division of the system and covers the lines from Sanford to Springvale; from Sanford to Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise; from Kennebunkport to Biddeford, and from Kennebunk to York Beach. Also narrated are the histories of two of the Atlantic Shore Line's predecessors, the Mousam River Railroad and the Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway and the Atlantic Shore Railway's successor, the York Utilities Company. The principal reason for publishing two volumes on the Atlantic Shore Line system instead of one is that each division-the Eastern and the Western-was developed more or less independently of the other by different interests and each had its own distinctive history. Also, the two divisions were elements of the unified system for only 11 years being operated separately for considerably longer periods.
As in "Trolleys to York Beach," much of the material for "Atlantic Shore Trolleys" was drawn from annual reports of the Maine Railroad Commissioners and Public Utilities Commission, supplemented by information on file in the PUC offices in Augusta. Other data came from the Street Railway Journal, the Electric Railway Journal, the Street Railway Review, the Electric Railway Review, the Street Railway Bulletin, official periodical of the old New England Street Railway Club: Brill Magazine published by the nation's leading trolley builder, the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia; various issues of McGraw's American Electric Railway Investments Manual, and other trade publications.
The Kennebunk Star the Sanford Tribune and the Biddeford Journal were perused as thoroughly as possible and the receivership files of the Atlantic Shore Railway in the U. S. District Court at Portland provided much information. Regrettably, nearly all the official records of the Atlantic Shore Line and the Atlantic Shore Railway have long since been destroyed and the few remaining in the office of the York Utilities Company give little useful information.
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