Train #15, the Flying Yankee, at Portland, Maine, August 16, 1937. Photo by Otto Perry, courtesy of PhotosWest.org.
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Yesterday I requested information on a sawmill in 1900 Calais Maine. This was an error. A review of the Sanborn map revealed the building was a freight