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Moving Image		Trails, Rails, and Roads MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:28:01 The story of transportation in Maine is the story of the state's ongoing challenge to keep its people connected both to economic markets and to each other. Whether it's Route 113 in western Maine, US Route 1 meandering up the coast, or the once plentiful rail routes that joined every corner of the state, Maine's communities have been formed by the patterns of transportation. (Relevance: 5313) Find Similar Resources	Transportation Railroads

Moving Image		The Nation's Playground MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:28:01 With its remarkable coastline, deep-green forest, and rolling landscape, Maine has been a favorite place for visitors for over a century. During the late 1800s, trains and steamboats brought visitors to every corner of the state. Over the last century, tourism has grown into Maine’s largest industry. (Relevance: 2915) Find Similar Resources	Recreation/Tourism Tourism -- Maine -- History

Moving Image		A Place Apart MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01 Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. The history behind the image of Maine remains a vital part of how we and those from away view Maine today. (Relevance: 1270) Find Similar Resources	Maine heritage European settlement History - Colonial Period

Still Image		Portland, ME. Grand Trunk Elevator Fogler Special Collections, Still Image Postcard, "Portland, ME. Grand Trunk Elevator." Shows railroad tracks at depot, and storage buildings for railroad freight. Prior to the construction of the interstate highway system after World War Two, railroads were the most important means of moving all types of freight. Contrast the starkness of this working area of the railroad to the more ornate passenger station. (Relevance: 1080) Find Similar Resources	Railroads Railroads Shipping Transportation

Moving Image		Bodies In Motion: The Biomechanics of Sports MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:54:36 Using athletics, QUEST takes a fresh look at the way our bodies move. Bridging the gap between research and the playing field, coaches, trainers and athletes themselves discover how to optimize performance and what to do when injury causes that performance to fail. (Relevance: 940) Find Similar Resources	Biomechanics Sports -- Physiological aspects Human mechanics Human locomotion

Still Image		Marine boiler, Portland Company, ca. 1900 Maine Historical Society, Still Image This Scotch-type marine boiler has just crossed the grand Trunk Railroad main line as it travels on a dolly and rails from the Portland Company boiler shop to the company pier. The Portland Company maintained a right-of-way across the railroad's tracks to move equipment, materials, and employees to its pier, where the customers' vessels were equipped or repaired. - Fletcher, David H. ' The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 73. (Relevance: 894) Find Similar Resources	Boatbuilding Boilers Grand Trunk Railroad Iron and steel industries -- Maine -- Portland Manufacturing industries -- Maine -- Portland Metalworking industries -- Maine -- Portland Portland Company Railroad tracks -- Maine -- Portland Shipbuilding Shipfitting

Text		An Act to Incorporate the Castine and Ellsworth Railroad Company Fogler Special Collections, Text An Act to Incorporate the Castine and Ellsworth Railroad Company. A pamplet reprinting the legislative act incorporating the Castine and Ellsworth Railroad Company. (Relevance: 854) Find Similar Resources	Railroads Railroads Transportation

Still Image		Railroad Tracks in Stockton Springs Fogler Special Collections, Still Image Postcard, "Stockton Springs, Me." View of railroad tracks running toward ships waiting at a dock. Can see piles of lumber upon the dock, probably waiting to be loaded onto ships. Notice the intersection of railroads and sailing ships as a means of transporting cargo. (Relevance: 849) Find Similar Resources	Lumbering Railroads Railroads Shipping Shipping/Shipbuilding Ships

Still Image		Section of Roadbed, Bangor and Aroostook Railway Fogler Special Collections, Still Image Photograph captioned: "A section of the road bed from archway north to the trestle." Group of workmen posed on railroad tracks during the construction of a part of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. (Relevance: 848) Find Similar Resources	Railroads Railroads Railroads design and construction Transportation

Still Image		Portland, Maine. The Union Station Fogler Special Collections, Still Image Postcard, "Portland, Maine. The Union Station." View of a railroad station with many automobiles parked in front of it. Shows the way to types of transportation overlapped, as people drove to the railway station in order to take or meet trains. (Relevance: 807) Find Similar Resources	Automobiles Railroad stations Railroads Railroads Transportation

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