Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

thunder wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:11:12 +0000, Don White wrote:


that's a very interesting story Chuck. On this end of the
continent, I'll
have to go back and refresh myself on how Maine ended up punching
so far
north into what was once Acadia, and then Nova Scotia. (now New
Brunswick)


That would be the Aroostook "War", and the resulting Webster-Ashburton
Treaty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War



And for the really o.f.'s amongst us whose memories are still sort of
intact, there's the Bangor & Aroostock Railroad:

http://www.thebluecomet.com/bar.html


I *know* Don will like this one.


D'oh! Outsmarted by the Yankee Peddlers again.
Pretty tough when 'might is right' and you have a third party looking
out for your interests.

Thanks for the pics Harry. That landscape sure does look like it
belongs in the Maritimes.



As a New Englander, I was too aware of the area's railroads, their bad
management and their demise. If memory serves, the Bangor & Aroostock
actually made it onto American Flyer S-gauge locos and rolling stock,
too. I sort of remember the old Boston & Maine RR, too, and, of course,
the New Haven (New Haven, New York & Hartford) when it was still
independent.

Any private railways here are long gone. The last was probably the DAR
Dominion Atlantic Railway from Yarmouth to Halifax. Canadian Pacific
only reached as far as Saint John NB so the DAR met the ferry at Digby
and continued on.
note: there is an American company who took over rail operations on
Cape Breton Island a while back but are thinking of packing it in after
losing their biggest customer. In usual Atlantic Canada fashion, the
gov't gave then a couple of million taxpayer dollars to help them out.
The CNR Canadian National Railway came across the narrow marshland that
connects Nova Scotia to the rest of North America and still comes right
into downtown Halifax to serve the ocean terminals via the big ditch
built after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

I gotta get down to that town in Maine that has all the old streetcars
set up for tourists. I'm hoping they have an old 'Birney Car' .. such
as operated here until a couple of months before I was born.