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Maine Central In Color
Volume 3

By: George F. Melvin

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2008
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color

List Price: $59.95                                       Our Price: $47.96

Almost a “Maine Central Facilities In Color” book for all the stations seen along with the trains. Color photography as early as 1941!

Contents Include:

Acknowledgements...3
Growing Up On The MEC...4
Those Blue Signs!...5
Thoughts On MEC History...5
The Colby Kids...6
New Diesels 1939-1948...8
New Diesels 1949-1956...10
A New Image:GP38S...12
Rigby Yard: Base Of The Tree...13
Portland: Tidewater And More...16
Union Station: The Last Two Decades...18
Lower Mountain Division...22
Bridgton Junction...24
Fryeburg To Crawford Notch...26
Quebec Jct. To East Concord...29
St. Johnsbury: The Western Gateway...34
QuebecJct. To Beecher Falls...36
Hereford Railway: Beyond Beecher Falls...39
Royal Jct. To Brunswick...40
River Running: Brunswick To Winslow...44
The Winslow Paper Mill...48
Down The Rockland Branch: Bath...50
Along The Sheepscot: Wiscasset...51
Newcastle To Warren...53
Historic Thomaston...56
Lime Rock Crossing...58
Rockland...60
Brunswick To Lewiston Lower...63
Royal Jct. To Danville Jct. ...65
Lewiston Station...68
Lewiston Yard...70
Lewiston To Waterville...72
Portland And Rumford Falls...76
Leeds Jct. To Livermore Falls...78
Farmington Branch...84
Riding To Bingham...86
The Final Run Of The 470...90
Waterville Station July 22, 1959...92
College Avenue And The New Tower A...94
Waterville To Pittsfield...96
Newport Junction...98
Newport Jct. To Northern Maine Jct. ...100
Hartland And Foxcroft Branches...102
Bangor...104
The Last Run: A Family Trip...108
Bangor To Mattawameag...110
Mattawameag And The Joint Track...114
Brewer To Bucksport...118
Calais Branch: Bangor To Machias...120
Dennysville To Calais...122
Eastport...126
Woodland...127
Farewell...128