Boston travelers to Maine would take the Boston & Maine to Portland where they would meet another many-tentacled railroad, the Maine Central, which had lines to Rockland, Calais, Vanceboro, Harmony, Farmington, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont. A line to Bangor split into the lines to Calais and Vanceboro, and also met a line to northern Maine, the Bangor & Aroostook.

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Maine Central had eight trains a day between Portland and Bangor, some of which started in Boston on the B&M and had names mentioned yesterday: Gull, Kennebec, Penobscot, Pine Tree, and Flying Yankee. Two local trains were unnamed. The railroad had two routes, one via Augusta and the other via Lewiston, and most of the trains went through Augusta while two went through Lewiston.

MEC (the E was to distinguish it from Michigan Central) had three trains a day to Rockland and one each to Calais, Farmington, and Vanceboro. However, the railroad was replacing some of its trains with buses. The timetables show that trains to all four of these cities were supplemented by buses.

Trains to St. Johnsbury and Vanceboro connected with Canadian Pacific trains to Montreal and St. John (NB), respectively. Other connections could be made to Halifax, Sydney, St. Johns (Newfoundland), and other Canadian cities.

The timetable also shows through sleeping cars to New York and Washington. The State of Maine had up to five sleeping cars between New York and Portland, one of which went on to Bangor. More impressively, on Fridays the Bar Harbor had fourteen sleeping cars from New York and either Portland, Ellsworth (which is beyond Bangor on the Calais line), or Rockland, some of which started in Philadelphia or Washington. These cars returned on Sundays or, on three-day weekends, on Mondays.