B.C.F. Veazie Railroad Bed Traditional Cache
mainiac1957: This one has run it's course.
B.C.F. Veazie Railroad Bed
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This cache will take you to the far reaches of the Bangor City Forest. You are looking for a winter friendly micro.
In 1832 the Maine Legislature granted a charter to the Old Town Railway Company. This company surveyed a roadbed along the river, started building but, due to a lack of funds, never completed the line. In 1833 the legislature granted a charter to the Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company, founded by a group of men from Piscataquis County. These men agreed to purchase the charter of the Old Town Company for $50,000.00. Construction began anew in 1835 and the first scheduled train between Bangor and Old Town was run in November 1836. The train consisted of a small wooden wheeled locomotive hauling converted stagecoaches for passenger cars. The length of the roadbed was about twelve miles. The first rails were made of wood capped with iron with leather
straps to hold the iron in place. The trains traveled about six miles per hour; the fare was thirty-seven and a half cents. Besides passengers the trains hauled lumber, laths, shingles, and clapboards from the mills along the river to the waterfront in Bangor. General Veazie, through a series of lawsuits, acquired the road in 1851 and extended the tracks to Milford. The name was then changed to the Bangor, Old Town and Milford Railroad-more commonly known, even today as
the Veazie Railroad. After Veazie’s death in 1868, the stockholders voted to sell the road to the European and North American Railway. The last train ran in June 1870.More information can be found at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor. This cache will put you on a stretch on the old rail bed that passes by the outer boundary of the forest. Enjoy your walk and I hope you enjoyed the history lesson.
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