Maine Central Railroad Time Table No.18, September 1939

Booklet functions as a rule book and schedule directory for employees of the Maine Central Railroad. Specific safety, speed, and other instructions for a large number of Maine locations are detailed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1032/thumbnail.jp

Unfulfilled Promise: Electrification and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad

During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century electricity made inroads into American life. Industry used electricity to power machines. Homemakers utilized electric appliances such as irons and washing machines to perform household chores. Electric lighting was used in homes, factories, railroad stations, advertising, and on city streets. The promise of electricity transformed everyday life. Electricity also held the promise of making it easier to transport freight and passengers on steam railroads. Despite electricity\u27s superiority to steam, a few railroads decided to electrify because it was necessary. Only one railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, electrified a major portion of its lines for economic reasons

Volume 15 - Issue 5 - February, 1906

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Atlantic Shore Line Railway: its predecessors and its successors

Introduction The 1949 SALE of the 3-mile electric freight line between Sanford and Springvale, Maine, to the Sanford & Eastern Railroad by the York Utilities Company, and subsequent changeover to Diesel motive power, all but brings to an end the colorful history of the second largest of the Pine Tree State\u27s four major electric railway systems -- the Atlantic Shore Line Railway -- known in its heyday as the Sea View Route. The Sanford-Springvale line was the last remaining segment under trolley wire. At its height, this extensive 90-mile network of cross-country trolley lines, operating largely over private right-of-way, extended from Kittery to Biddeford, serving York, York Beach, Ogunquit, Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise; it branched inland from Kennebunk to Sanford and Springvale, and connected both Kittery and York with Eliot and South Berwick (Maine) and Dover (New Hampshire), as well as operating the ferry service across the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1029/thumbnail.jp

Lessons from PPPs of Indian Railways and Way Forward

The Indian Railways (IR) have grand plans. They would like to leapfrog to a higher growth trajectory during 2010-20. Towards this, they would like to see a total investment of Rs 14,00,000 crores (cr), as stated in the Vision 2020, brought out by the Ministry of Railways (MoR) in December 2009. With whatever level of optimistic projections for the internal resources and borrowings for the coming decade, clearly, PPPs would have to be a significant source. This makes it imperative for the IR to create a policy framework that would attract PPPs, especially in the context that the PPPs in IR have not taken off as projected. This paper reviews PPP projects that the IR has evolved over the past 25 years. These include operating partnership projects of IR including with the state government, PPPs in the pipeline, and discontinued partnership projects in IR. The paper brings out issues that have implications for PPPs in IR. The significant ones are focus on infrastructure creation PPPs rather than service PPPs, partner selection more contextually based than through open competitive bidding, more than acceptable time lags between conceptualization and project execution, issues in extending the project scope, non mutuality in contractual arrangements, and conflict of interest due to multiple roles of IR. Based on these issues, the paper derives certain key lessons and provides a way forward.

Maine Central Railroad and Portland Terminal Company Time Table No.6, April 1961

Schedules and operational instructions for employees of the Maine Central Railroad Company, covering much of the state, with special focus on the Portland division.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1033/thumbnail.jp

Volume 15 - Issue 1 - October, 1905

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