Description: ...Passenger cars and locomotive of the GreenMountain Railway at Eagle Lake shore. The locomotive was taken for use on Mt. Washington...GreenMountain is now Cadillac Mountain...
Description: ...B/W 8x10 photograph looking down the rail tracks on GreenMountain with Eagle Lake in mid-distance and Eagle Lake Rd. and McFarland Hill in background...GreenMountain is now Cadillac Mountain...
Description: ...B/W photograph of GreenMountain locomotive pushing passenger car to top of mountain (now Cadillac Mountain). Engineer is Walter H. Dunton...
Description: ...View looking down the tracks of the GreenMountain Railway on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen...
Description: ...Passengers travel up Cadillac Mountain the GreenMountain cog railway. Inscription on the back reads "R. H. Hyson" in blue pen. Black and white...
Description: ...View looking down the tracks of the GreenMountain Railway, toward the station on Mount Desert Island, ME. Inscription on the back reads "R. H...
Description: ..."GREENMOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is GreenMountain, the highest point on the Island...But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the GreenMountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence...The view from GreenMountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten..."GREENMOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending GreenMountain by way of Eagle Lake and the GreenMountain Railway...
Description: ...This view shows the small hotel perched on the bare granite summit of the mountain...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: ...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..."Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: ...Francis Hector Clergue built the GreenMountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..., to, serve patrons of his GreenMountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake...The burning of a hotel on GreenMountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the...