Connecting Maine with the Nation
- Title
- Connecting Maine with the Nation
- Alternative Title
- 40th Anniversary, 1917-1957
- Creator
- Cole's Express
- Date
- 1957
- Description
- Forty years of service: On August 1, 1917, Cole's Express started its high-way service to the public, a horse-drawn pickup and delivery freight and passenger service between the Enfield railroad station and the towns of Lowell and Burlington, some 15 miles distant. A year later the first truck was purchased and service expanded from Enfield to Bangor, picking up goods and passengers in both directions. Soon afterward, other trucks were added to carry the run through to Lincoln and eventually Houlton. For many years, it was necessary to abandon the north run to Houlton during the Winter, because snow on the roads was packed by horse-drawn rollers for the con-venience of sleighs, making truck traffic impossible.
- Subject
- Business enterprises--Maine--Bangor
- Cole, Albert J., 1893-1955
- Cole's Express--History
- Trucking--Maine--History
- Trucking--New England--History
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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