RULES OF THE BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

1. Regular sessions of the Board shall be held at the Commissioners' office at the State House on the first Wednesday of each month, at ten o'clock in the forenoon and when practicable all hearings on applications to the Board will be held at such regular sessions.

2.

All applications to the Board must be in writing and signed by the person making such application, or if a corporation, by its agent or attorney, or otherwise, as the statutes require.

3. Applications for approval of articles of association, in organizing railroad corporations under the laws of the State, shall be by petition to the Board, setting forth briefly the formation of such association, its name, the gauge and route of the proposed railroad and acco

ccompanied with a map of the proposed route on an appropriate scale.

4. When railroads are hereafter constructed across highways or other public ways, application shall be made to the Board, and the manner and conditions of such crossings determined, before corporations shall enter upon the construction of such railroads.

5. Applications or petitions may be presented to the Chairman, or addressed to, or delivered to the Clerk of the Board, at Augusta, Maine.

6. The Clerk shall keep a full and minute record of the proceedings of the Board, and a docket of all petitions and applications filed and of all orders and decisions of the Board. Said record shall be open for inspection to all persons interested, and certified copies thereof on application therefor, shall be furnished by said Clerk for a reasonable compensation.

7. All hearings before the Board shall be governed, so far as applicable, by the rules of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and the petitioner or applicant will in all cases be entitled to open and close.

STATE OF MAINE.

To His Excellency, William T. Haines, Governor or Maine:

The fifty-fifth annual report of the Board of Railroad Com. missioners is herewith submitted, comprising returns of the operation of fourteen steam railroads, one terminal coinpany, fourteen electric railroads and one horse railroad.

There are five narrow, or two feet, gauge steam railroads in the state with a mileage of 197.11 miles, an increase over 1912 of 3.42 miles.

The total mileage of steam railroads, including narrow gauge roads, in Maine, on June 30, 1913, was 2,301.03 miles, an

, increase of 16.65 miles.

The gross increase is as follows:

Extension by the Maine Central Railroad Company from Harmony to Mainstream, 2.01 miles, and extension of industrial tracks .67 of a mile; Rangeley Lakes and Megantic Railroad, a new railroad from Oquossoc to Kennebago, 10.65 miles; an extension by the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad to Mt. Abram township, .84 of a mile, and industrial tracks .81 of a mile, making a total of 16.98 miles.

The gross decrease is as follows:

Remeasurement of the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad, .23 of a mile; remeasurement of the Maine Central Railroad, Royal Junction to Waterville, .10 of a mile, making a total of .33 of a mile.

The net increase in mileage for the year ending June 30, 1913, was therefore 16.65 miles.

The total mileage of street railways in operation on June 30, 1913 was 485.09 miles. There was no increase in street railway mileage during the year.

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The following table gives the mileage of all Steam Railroads

operated in Maine.

RAILROADS.

5.8

1.59

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad:

Aroostook Junction to Caribou.. 155. 13
Old Town to Greenville.

76.13 Phair to Fort Fairfield.

13.30 Ashland Junction to Ashland

43.87 Caribou to Van Buren

33.40 Milo Jct. to Iron Works.

19.03 Patten Jet. to Patten. Caribou to Limestone.

15.67 Ashland to Fort Kent..

51.00 Searsport to South Lagrange.. 54 13 Schoodic Stream Jet. to Medway. 9.46 South Lagrange to Packards.... 27.96 Cape Junct. to Cape Jellison Wharf 2.15 Northern Maine Junction to Station .77 Squa Pan to Stockholm..

47.97 Presque Isle to Mapleton.

7.13 Kent Jct. to St. Francis.

16.56 Van Buren to Fort Kent

43.72 Oakfield Jct. to Ashland Jct Industrial tracks.

5.68 Boston & Maine Railroad, Portland

Div. via Dover:
N. H. Line to Rigby, Maine.. 39.93
Portland Div. via Portomouth:
N. H. Line to Rigby, Maine

47.37 Jewett, Maine, to So. Berwick

2.92 W. N. & Portland Division: N. H. Line to Westbrook..

41.92 Old Orchard Branch to Camp Ellis 3.27 Kennebunk to Kennebunkport.... 4.50

Portland Terminal Co.'s Tracks.. 19.56 *Bridgton & Saco River Railroad:

Harrison to Bridgton Jet..
Canadian Pacific Ry. (I. N. Ry. Me.):
Boundary to Mattawamkeag. 144.50
Boundary to Houlton..

3.00 Boundary to Presque Isle.

29. 20 Greenville Branch.

1.28
Mattawamkeag to Vanceboro. 156.60
Georges Valley Railroad:
Warren to Union..

8.00 Main Line to Lime Kilns.

.50 Grand Trunk Railway (At. & St. L.): N. H. Line to Portland ..

82.60) Lewiston Jct. to Lewiston.

5.41 South Paris to Norway..

1.50 *Kennebec Central Railroad:

Randolph to Togus. Lime Rock Railroad..

5.09 Branches to quarries..

6.21 Trackage rights, M. C. R. R

1.27

* Narrow (2 feet) gauge.

• Included in line operated. | Trackage rights. † 56.60 miles from Mattawamkeag to Vanceboro, operated on M. C. R. R. line.

Mileage of Steam Railroads—Concluded.

RAILROADS.

Maine Central Railroad:
Portland Line to Bangor.

130.04 Royal Junction to Waterville. 72.30 Gardiner to Copsecook.

1.15 Waterville Freight Yard to Skowhegan..

17. 23 Oakland to Kineo.

90.61 Austin Junction to Bingham.

1.43 Taunton to Somerset Jct.

.49 Pittsfield to Harmony.

17.76 Brunswick to Leeds Junction. 25.94 Crowley's Junction to Lewiston. 4.88 Leeds Junction to Farmington. 36.66 Brunswick to Bath,

8.90 Woolwich to Rockland..

47.13 Rockland to Rockland Wharf.

1.44 Brewer Jct. to Mt. Desert Ferry... 41.13 Washington Jct. to Calais.

102.49 Ayer's Jct. to Eastport.

16.48 St. Croix Jct. to Princeton

12.75 Woodland Jct. to Woodland

1.21 Industrial tracks..

8.24 Burnham Jet. to Belfast.

33.13 Newport Jct. to Dexter.

14.23 Dexter to Foxcroft.

16.54 Bangor Jct. to Bucksport.

18.80 Industrial tracks.

27 Bangor to Vanceboro..

114.30 Orono to Stillwater..

3.01 Enfield to Montague.

3.03 Montague to Howlands

.73 Industrial tracks

5.00 Rumford Jct. to Rumford Falls 52.86 Canton to Livermore Falls..

10.27 Rumford Falls Jct. to R. F. & R. L. R. R....

72 Industrial tracks.

1.29 Rumford Falls to O quossoc.

35.99 Industrial tracks..

.35 Windham Line to New Hampshire Line..

43.81 Industrial tracks

.30 Portland Terminal Co.'s tracks... 14.91 *Monson Railroad: Monson Jct. to Monson.

6.16 Monson to Slate Quarry..

2.00 Portland Terminal Company.. Rangeley Lakes & Megantic Railroad:

Oquossoc to Kennebago.. *Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Rail

road: Farmington to Marbles..

47.16 Strong to Bigelow..

30.26 Madrid to No. 6...

5.33 Mt. Abram Jct. to Mt. Abram

1.81 Alder Stream Jct. to Alder Stream 2.26 Brackett Jct. to Littlefield..

4.27 Eustis Jct. to Green's Farm

10.48 Kingfield Switch to Kingfield Sta.. 25 Perham Jct. to s. w. Cor. Mt. Abraham Township...

2.84
Industrial Tracks
*Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington

Railroad:
Wiscasset to Winslow..

43.50 Weeks Mills to Albion

13.96 York Harbor & Beach Railroad: Kittery to York Beach..

11.17 Kittery Navy Yd.

to U. S. Navy Yd Total mileage..

.81

.34

2,301.03 15,538.17 1 ,458.59 4,951.68 4,762 54

* Narrow (2 feet) gauge.

° Included in line operated. Includes .94 miles 3d track, and .98 miles of 4th track.

+ Trackage rights.

MILEAGE OF STEAM RAILROADS AND INCREASE

FROM 1836 TO JUNE 30, 1913.

As nearly as can be ascertained the mileage of the steam railroads in Maine, from the first road built in 1836 to 1913, is as follows:

MILES.

INCREASE.

MILES.

INCREASE.

69.00

1836.. 1842.. 1843., 1847.. 1848.. 1849.. 1850.. 1851.. 1852.. 1853.. 1854.. 1855.. 1856.. 1857.. 1859.. 1861.. 1867. 1868.. 1869, 1870.. 1871.. 1873. 1874.. 1875.. 1876. 1879.. 1880.. 1881. 1882. 1883.

12.00 19.88 72.39 75.39 132.16 211.49 232.59 280.61 319.74 330.74 333.74 352.84 370.75 390.82 411.29 441.99 444.49 516.45 601.65 650.20 772.63 814.63 846.43 865.71 881.33

1884 1885 1886 1887. 1888 1889, 1890. 1891 1892. 1893 1894. 1895 1896. 1897. 1898 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906. 1907 1908 1909. 1910 1911. 1912, 1913.

1,132.27
1,132.27.
1,141.43
1,164.52
1,164.07
1,322.45
1,360.26
1,382.92
1,385.00
1,399.14
1,515.99
1,626.75
1,720.41
1,722.92
1,748.95
1,871.85
1,905.00
1,918.98
1,933.35
2,004.81
2,018.60
2,022.63
2,093.49
2 ,144.77
2,173.91
2,174.95
2 ,259.60
2,288.36
2,284.38
2,301.03