The following list was compiled by then vice president of the Maine Central Mr. Bradley L. Peters in 1976. This list is 132 columns wide so if you do not have a wide carriage printer all you have to do is print this out in condensed mode and it will all fit on standard 8-1/2 x 11 paper. Years Major Year Segments Miles of Name of Railroad Chartered Opened Line Built Location of Railroad Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad Co. 1845 1848-49 55 Danville Jct. - Waterville Androscoggin Railroad Co. 1848 1852-70 67 Brunswick - Farmington Bangor & Piscataquis Canal & Railroad Co. 1833 1836 12 Bangor - Old Town Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Co. 1868 1870 33 Burnham Jct. - Belfast Buckfield Branch Railroad Co. 1847 1850-55 18 Mechanic Falls - E. Summer Bucksport & Bangor Railroad Company 1873 1874 19 Bangor to Bucksport Calais & Baring Railroad Co. 1849 1851-52 4 Calais - Baring Calais Railroad Co. 1838 1839 2 Calais Coos Valley Railroad Co. (Vermont) 1882 1891 12 Northern Vermont Dexter & Newport Railroad Co. 1853 1868 14 Newport - Dexter Dexter & Piscataquis Railroad Co. 1888 1889 17 Dexter - Foxcroft Dominion Lime Co. (Canada) 1887 1887 4 Dudswell Jct. - Lime Ridge, Quebec Essex County Railroad Co. (Vermont) 1864 1872-75 22 St. Johnsbury - Lunenburg, Vermont European & North American Railway 1880 1888-91 4 Enfield - Howland European & North American Railway Co. 1850 1868-71 114 Bangor - Vanceboro Hereford Railway Co. (Canada) 1888 1889-90 49 Vermont Border - Dudswell Jct., Quebec Kennebec & Portland Railroad Co. 1836 1849-51 71 Portland - Bath - Brunswick - Augusta Knox & Lincoln Railroad Co. 1864 1871-73 48 Woolwich - Rockland Lewy's Island Railroad Co. (Maine) 1854 1856-57 11 Calais - Princeton, N.B. Maine Central Railroad Co. 1856 1870-1912 22 Eventually throughout the State of Maine Maine Shore Line Railroad Co. 1881 1884 41 Brewer - Hancock Pt. or Mt. Desert Ferry Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad Co. 1845 1853-55 55 Waterville - Bangor Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Co. 1867 1870-75 91 Portland to Lunenburg, Vermont Portland & Oxford Central Railroad Co. 1857 1867-70 7 E. Sumner - Canton Portland & Rumford Falls Railway Co. 1890 1892-99 38 Rumford - Auburn Rangeley Lakes & Megantic Railroad Co. 1909 1912 8 West Kamenkeag - Kennebago Rumford Falls & Buckfield Railroad Co. 1874 1879 1 Gilbertville Rumford Falls & Rangeley Lakes Railroad Co. 1894 1895-1902 40 Rumford - Oquossoc Sebasticook & Moosehead Railroad Co. 1886 1886-1901 16 Pittsfield - Mainstream Somerset & Kennebec Railroad Co. 1848 1853-56 37 Augusta - Waterville - Skowhegan Somerset Railroad Co. 1860 1874-75 25 Oakland - North Anson Somerset Railway 1883 1888-90 16 North Anson - Bingham Somerset Railway Co. 1904 1905-07 51 Bingham - Moosehead Lake Upper Coos Railroad (New Hampshire) 1883 1887-91 42 Quebec Jct.,N.H. - W. Stewartstown Upper Coos Railroad (Vermont) 1883 1888 2 Beecher Falls, Vermont Washington County Railroad Co. 1893 1898 115 Ellsworth - Machias - Eastport Washington County Railway Co. 1903 1906 1 Woodland Jct. - Woodland The Maine Central Railroad Company was originally formed October 28th, 1862, by consolidation of the Androscoggin & Kennebec, and the Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad companies, owning railroads extending from Danville Junction (At a junction with the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad) to Bangor.