Geography
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| Line length: | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge: | 610 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Milepost 0: Bridgton Junction - Interchange yard with the Portland and Ogdensburg (later Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division.) Agent's station shared with Maine Central Railroad. B&SR had 6 northbound spurs plus a turntable with a single-stall enginehouse. The freight house spur was dual gauge, and there was a second dual gauge spur for loading and unloading narrow gauge-equipment on standard-gauge cars. There was no runaround track; so southbound B&SR locomotives uncoupled their train on the main line, moved into the yard, threw a turnout, and let their train roll past them into the yard by gravity to avoid being trapped at the end of the spur.
Milepost 0.8: Scribner's - southbound spur.
Milepost 1: granite masonry arch over Hancock Brook.
Milepost 1.2: Small's
Milepost 2.0: Rankin's Mill - small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 2.7: Mullen Siding - northbound spur.
Milepost 3: Summit - highest point on the railroad.
Milepost 4: Fill over the north end of Barker pond with granite masonry abutments for a short timber stringer span on the boundary between Hiram and the town of Sebago.
Milepost 4.4: Twin Lake - small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 5.4: Gravel Pit - northbound spur.
Milepost 7: The Notch - a rock cut.
Milepost 7.2: West Sebago - southbound spur with small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 7.5: Water Tank Siding - passing siding adjacent to Hancock Pond. The main line ran between Hancock Pond and B&SR superintendent Joseph Bennett's lakeside cottage a short distance south of the covered water tank.
Milepost 9.0: Perley's Mills - southbound spur with small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 10.5: Ingall's Road - southbound spur with small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 11.3: Kennett's - southbound spur.
Milepost 12.1: South Bridgton - southbound spur with small flag stop passenger shelter.
Milepost 13: high fill with granite masonry abutments for a short timber stringer span over Willett Brook.
Milepost 13.5: Sandy Creek - agent's station with passing siding serving a sawmill.
Milepost 15.8: Bridgton - had the largest population of any village served by the Maine 2-foot (610 mm) gauge railroads. The yard was on the stub of a wye with branches to Harrison and Bridgton Junction. There were 2 storage sidings and 4 spurs serving the agent's station, a separate freight house, a team track, an oil distributor, a grain store, the B&SR shop, and a turntable with a 4-stall enginehouse.
Milepost 15.9: Farmers Market - two northbound spurs (one was a coal trestle.)
Milepost 16.4: Forest Mills—passing siding with a northbound coal trestle spur.
Milepost 19.5: North Bridgton - agent's station with passing siding serving a separate freight house.
Milepost 20.7: Harrison - agent's station with a passing siding and several southbound spurs serving a freight house, a cannery, a grain store, a 2-track car shed, and a turntable with a single-stall enginehouse.
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