- City:
- Monmouth, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agency:
- Unknown
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
An article in the December 5 1935 Bangor Daily News reported that the Agriculture Dept. had approved 5 grade crossing elimination projects in Maine submitted by the State Highway Commission. “ON MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD Androscoggin and Kennebec counties, between Leeds and Monmouth, on federal-aid highway route 1, construct grade separation strcuture, state funds, $475, federal funds $79,013.”
Route 1 was changed to US-202 and the former Maine Central RR following 1970’s deregulation was merged into Guilford Transportation Inc./Pan Am Railways and recently into CSX Railroad.
Source notes
December 5 1935 Bangor Daily News.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on June 27, 2022.
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