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Iron Road Railways Incorporated (IRR) was a railroad holding company which owned several short line railroads in the U.S. state of Maine, as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia . IRR was formed in 1994 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
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What was the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad?
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The Bangor & Aroostook was created relatively late for a railroad, incorporated on February 13, 1891. The idea of Albert A. Burleigh, the system was financed by Aroostook County to open Maine's vast northern wilderness regions, which at the time contained no rail service. According to the book, "A Brief History Of The Bangor And Aroostook Railroad,...
The project also called for branches extending out to Fort Fairfield and Ashland while the addition of the Bangor & Piscataquis in 1892 and Bangor & Katahdin Iron Works Railway provided rail service from Old Town to Brownville. Construction of the BAR worked rapidly northward and reached Houlton in December of 1893. On January 1, 1894 the first tra...
Of note was Great Northern Paper, one of its largest customers, which supplied the railroad with a healthy business for decades. The company was also the driving force behind the BAR's only coastal access along Penobscot Bay in the early 1900s, as well as its important connection to the port of Bangor. To accomplish this it formed the Northern Main...
Throughout the years the Bangor & Aroostook's traffic base remained relatively unchanged hauling timber, coal (early on for the paper mills), and potatoes to either the coast or connections with other railroads (notably the Maine Central, Canadian Pacific, and Canadian National). When the country was thrust into World War II after December 7, 1941 ...
The BAR became a regular EMD customer, purchasing nearly its entire inventory from the builder. In 1950 the railroad also acquired a semi-celebrity status with a new freight service it initiated. That year the company decided to build a fleet of 500 insulated refrigerator cars (known as reefers, the railroad needed these to keep its potato shipment...
Mar 17, 1995 · History. Iron Road Railways, Inc. Name/Corporate Existence. 1994 to 2002. Industry. Holding Company. Website. Corporate Timeline. Click on the icon for source information. 1994. Iron Road Railways, Inc. incorporates in the Commonwealth of Virginia. March 17. 1995. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company is acquired by Iron Road Railways, Inc. 2002.
The growing scale and ambition of iron railways conceived in the 1820s led to the construction of the first systems which effectively formed means of ‘internal communications’ with a national reach, which turnpikes and canals had already offered for some time.
The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental Railroad | Department of English. 2019. Author (s) Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Gordon H. Chang. Publisher. Stanford University PRess. Read the publication. Learn more on publisher's website.
Jul 24, 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 400 pages : 25 cm. From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, 'The Iron Road' tells the hidden stories of railway history - the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways.
