made wherever needed to keep it up to a high standard. The rolling stock is well cared for and is in all respects in good condition. The station buildings are well kept in all respects, more or less improvements made in many of them. This company has done considerable in the way of separating the grades at highway crossings and more work in that direction is contemplated. PORTLAND AND RUMFORD FALLS RAILWAY. This line extends from Rumford Falls to Lewiston, connecting at Mechanic Falls with the Grand Trunk Railway and at Rumford Junction, (formerly Poland Springs Junction) in the city of Auburn, with the Maine Central Railroad over whose track its trains run to Lewiston, with a branch line from Canton to Chisholm's Mills, over which regular trains begun running on October 4th. The road-bed has been thoroughly ditched the entire length of the line, and the track is in excellent line and surface. Three miles of track has been relaid with seventy pound, four and three-quarter inch rails, thirty-four feet long, and continuous joints. Twenty-six thousand cubic yards of ballast and over twenty-one thousand ties have been used in the track during the year. At Canton seven-eighths of a mile of track has been. rebuilt, greatly improving the alignment and reducing the grades. One and one-half miles of additional side tracks have been built. The bridges generally are in excellent condition. Two small ones have been rebuilt with substantial stone abutments and the openings covered with rails and ballast; and four have been filled with earth, the streams being diverted to other channels. Seven culverts have been built and the ends of eight rebuilt. The rolling stock is in excellent condition. Three Mogul freight locomotives, 19x26 cylinders, twenty-five box cars of 60,000 pounds capacity, equipped with automatic couplers and air brakes, and two freight saloon cars have been added to the equipment. The buildings are in the best of repair. A new freight station has been erected at Poland, a dwelling house for agent at Poland Springs, and a coal shed at Canton. RUMFORD FALLS AND RANGELEY LAKES RAILROAD. This railroad runs from Rumford Falls to Bemis on Lake Mooselucmaguntic, one of the Rangeley lakes, with a branch, used only for hauling logs, extending four miles northeasterly from Houghton's. The road-bed and track are in good condition. The alignment north of the summit has been greatly improved; two ten (10) degree curves having been eliminated and the curvature of ten others reduced. Much ballasting has been done, six and four-tenths miles of track have been lifted and over thirteen miles shouldered, using thirty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-three cubic yards of gravel. One and one-seventh (I 1-7) miles of new side tracks have been constructed, and six thousand ties have been used. The bridges have been thoroughly overhauled and repaired. Three culverts have been extended, and one partly rebuilt. The rolling stock is mostly in good condition. The passenger cars for the through business are furnished by the connecting railroads. A fine new compound Mogul locomotive, (the first compound locomotive to be used in the State,) has been added. to the equipment, and two locomotives have been thoroughly repaired; six box cars, thirteen flat cars, and one Russell snow plow have also been purchased. The stations and other buildings are well cared for and adapted to the needs of the railroad, the station at Bemis being an attractive log building. ST. CROIX AND PENOBSCOT RAILROAD. This railroad, 21 miles long, was opened from Calais to Princeton in 1856. Sixteen and one-fourth miles of this are in Maine, the remainder being in New Brunswick. The road-bed and track are in fair condition, some ballasting has been done; one hundred and fifty tons of fifty-six pound rails and five thousand seven hundred and forty-six ties have been used in repairing and improving the track. The bridges and culverts are carefully looked after and safe for the rolling stock used on this railroad. At Salmon Falls a new steel plate girder has been erected and the trestle portion |