Proposed Passenger Train Service Study Between Brunswick & Bangor In The Works
A proposal to conduct a feasibility study on extending passenger rail service from Brunswick through Augusta and Waterville and then to Bangor, was recently presented to the Maine Legislature by Senator Joe Baldacci of Penobscot County.
Tonight, Bangor s Municipal Operations Committee will take into consideration putting the City’s endorsement behind passage of LD 227, according to a post on Baldacci s Facebook page.
The last time a passenger train pulled into the old Bangor Union Station where the Penobscot Plaza now stands was back in early 1961. The station was served by both Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and Maine Central Railroad.
Real or imagined, foreign interlopers no match for alert Mainers
Busted! Once again, the coast of Maine has been the entry point for foreign intrigue, and once again the threat has been exposed.
Years ago, it was German spies in a U-boat landing on the coast near Hancock Point in November of 1944. Their undoing? They trudged up the Hancock peninsula wearing “street clothes and no warm coats,” said one observer who remembered the day well in a Bangor Daily News interview. A fashion forward visitor from away is easily identified by his outfit. In the summer in Hancock County, it does not rate a second glance. But in November? In 1944? What’s up, buddy?