The Kennebec Historical Society’s September presentation, “Thomas Holt, Architect and Chief Engineer of the Maine Central Railroad,” will be given by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. at 6:30 p.m ...

The Kennebec Valley Inn, originally the Maine Central Railroad Hotel, stands in the background of the train station with a clock tower, about 1905, in downtown Skowhegan. Image courtesy of ...

Fatal Accident on the Portland and Kennebec Railroad-The Engine thrown into the River-Two Men Crushed to Death. Share full article. Feb. 2, 1855.

The Maine Central Railroad came into fruition after a merger between the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad and the Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad in 1862. "Railroads actually affected how dairy ...