The colorful railroad era in Springvale will come alive in an upcoming slideshow and talk with speaker Jonathan Wells at the Sanford Springvale Historical Museum on Sunday, October 27 at 3:00 PM.

Following the presentation, Lee Burnett will talk about efforts to return stone mile posts to their original location on the Springvale section of the rail bed (Rail Trail), now a city-owned linear park.

The talks will be accompanied by a display of memorabilia collected by the family of Frederic Horne, who worked at the Springvale station of B&M Railroad for 50 years and was the last employee when it was sold to Sanford & Eastern in 1949.

OVERVIEW
Jonathan Wells, a retired Pan Am Systems locomotive engineer, is an authority on the Worcester, Nashua and Portland division of Boston & Maine Railroad. The old WN&P was the busiest single track freight railroad in the country in the early 1900s and also carried rich vacationers to resorts Downeast. Due to primitive traffic control measures of the day, the railroad also had a terrible crash history.

Wells was involved with a group that purchased and restored the former Sandown, New Hampshire depot, which is now a museum that commemorates the entire WN&P Division.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Doors Open: 2:30 PM
Event Starts: 3:00 PM
Address: Historical Museum, 505 Main Street, Springvale, ME
The museum is handicapped accessible.

TICKETS
Admittance to this event is FREE to the public. For questions, please call 207‑651‑1980 or email lfurbish@sanfordhistory.org.