by 3rdrail
Hi guys ! I was having a discussion with my son recently. We were talking about a trip that we took some years ago when we camped in Maine, heading home via Rte. 3 to 95 South, and on the way puttering around what I recently discovered was Augusta, Maine. We saw an elevated section there that led to the Kennebec River Bridge off Water St., and it looked like the area just before the bridge may have been a railroad area of some sort. Does anybody know the history of the area that I'm talking about ? I'm sure by the condition of the trestle that it's no longer used (unless a new one went up in the meantime) and we wondered if that could have been the downtown area's Maine Central Railroad Station at one time. It certainly must have been impressive to see a steamer come up over that trestle work onto the bridge back in the day ! Here's a recent pic from NERAIL. Thanks to Bernard Cole II for use of the excellent photo.
http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=161581
http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=161581
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