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Location / Name:
Portland ME, Cumberland County
What's Here:
Amtrak Station
Maine Narrow Gauge RR
Pan Am Rwy's Rigby Yard
Data:
GPS Coordinates: as needed
Phone A/C: 207
ZIP: 04101
Access by train/transit:
Amtrak Downeaster
The Scoop:
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Acknowledgements:
Denver Todd
Google Maps
Bing Maps
Open Railway Map
Wikipedia
Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
https://amtrakdowneaster.com/stations/portland
Getting to G
Amtrak
Station and Portland Transportation CenterGPS Coordinates:
Station Code: POR
100 Thompson's Point Road, Portland ME 04102
The Downeaster platform is located at the Portland Transportation Center open to passengers from 4:15am to 10:30pm daily with access to the Amtrak self-service ticketing kiosk, visitor information, restrooms, and other passenger services. Amtrak ticket agents are on duty weekdays from 7:30am to 5:00pm daily.
Parking: is $5.00 per day and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking for Downeaster passengers is available in the lot across the street from the Portland Transportation Center (on the right of Thompson's Point Road).
Bus Service: The Portland Transportation Center is served by two METRO Bus Routes. METRO Bus Route 1 provides service to destinations throughout the city including the waterfront, Arts District, Hadlock Field and the Old Port. The METRO Breez provides daily express bus service between the Portland Transportation Center, Yarmouth, Freeport, and the Brunswick Visitor Center.
Concord Coach Lines provides service to Auburn, Coastal Maine, Augusta, Bangor, and Orono.
Pan Am Railway's Rigby YardGPS Coordinates: 43.62454, -70.29599 (center)
Former Guilford and Boston & Maine Yard.
Access off Route 1, then Rumery St (across from a Jiffy Lube), to Rigby street (take a right).
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad CoGPS Coordinates:
49 Thames St, Portland ME 04101
207-828-0814
https://mainenarrowgauge.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Narrow_Gauge_Railroad_Museum
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum is a 2 foot narrow gauge railway located in Portland. It opened in 1993, and is approximately 1.5 miles long (2.4km). The following pictures of their engines come from their website.
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Disclaimers:
I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an expert. My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. This is something I have fun with while trying to help others.
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.
If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. Once in a while, an error may creep in :-)
My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning. Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented. Take along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the railroads on them. If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.
Aerial shots were taken from either Google or Bing Maps as noted. Screen captures are made with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it!
By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous and/or other stuff.
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