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Grading of the roadbed as well as piers for some of the bridges were started and then halted due to lack of funds. The railway was then acquired by the rival company Bangor & Piscataquis County
Railroad Co. (for $ 50,000, which according to a Mr. Wadleigh, speaking in the 1870s, was never paid to
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Portland (Me.) Eastern Argus, for November 7, 1836, quotes the Bangor Advertiser, reporting that as the railway was about to open that there were six well finished carriages. They were given the names 'Bangor,' 'Orono,' 'Old Town,'Kenduskeag,' 'Boston' The original carriages were shipped from
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Meanwhile in 1847 Daniel White, I. Washburn, Jr., Eben
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from 1860 lists the average yearly earrings of the railroad during this time from 1837 to 1859 as $ 9,973. The peak year of 1853 saw earnings of $ 24,235 and resulted in the only dividend paid by the railroad. Earnings were always modest and dropped off after 1853 (see Veazie years below) with a
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The First charter for the Old Town
Railway Company was granted by the State of Maine in 1832 to Ira Wadleigh, Amos Roberts, Charles Ramsdell, Isaac Damon, Ebenezer French. Rufus Dwinel, and Edward and Samuel Smith were listed as owners The Charter allowed for the construction of a railroad from
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Milford and the name changed to Penobscot Railroad Company in 1850. The competing railroad was plagued by financial troubles and incurred severe damage to bridges crossing the Stillwater and Penobscot during the spring of 1856 but occupied a more commercially viable route.
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Carriages were linked by shackles of 3-layers of thick leather fastened with copper rivets. The shackles were passed over vertical pins extending from a beam extending from the underside of the carriages front and back.
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December 1869 the railroad suspended scheduled trains.
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The passenger carriages were equipped with wheel-brakes similar to domestic stage-coaches of the period.
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