File Attachment: Green Mountain Railway-uncompressed.pdf …The Islander Magazine In 1883 it took 30 minutes to reach the top of GreenMountain on the new cog railway. …, and then they would be ready for the first public ascent up GreenMountain (now Cadillac Mountain) on the cog railroad. …Dunton, the owner of the Eagle Lake side of GreenMountain, asking permission to use his land. …During its first season, which ended in mid September, the GreenMountain Railway carried a total of 2,967 people.
File Attachment: Green Mountain Railway newspaper-uncompressed.pdf …GreenMountain It is said that the idea of a cog railway on GreenMountain (now Cadillac Mountain), Mt. …Washington cog railway and one in Switzerland and wondered why a similar means had not been used on GreenMountain. …Taken not far from where the old Mountain Road now crosses the GreenMountain Railway roadbed and looks down on the base station at Eagle Lake. …Washington and the record time down GreenMountain to the base was one and a quarter minutes.
Description: ...From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway ran up the slopes of today's Cadillac Mountain; the railway was the inspiration of Francis (Frank) Clerque...
Description: ...Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green...Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Date:
1961
Description: ...Desert Island during WW II, 2) village of Town Hill, 3) development of buildings on Green [later Cadillac] Mountain, 4)GreenMountain Railway and connecting...
Description: ...Color negative of a Long upgrade view, GreenMountain Railway. [Made by Ballard] from a B. Bradley print; stereopticon card double view...GreenMountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me...
Description: ...Color negative of GreenMountain Railway tracks, looking down grade; Eagle Lake below; about 1883. Stereo. Two copies [by Ballard] from a B...GreenMountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me...
Description: Tracks toward Eagle Lake, from a point not far below the summit, near where the summit road crosses the Ry [sic] site for 2nd time, going down. Ballard notes indicate this negative was from M. Clement. This negative is probably a Ballard made copy of an early photo (1880-1910) by an unknown photographer.
Description: ...Black and white photo. of GreenMountain Cog Railway tracks on Cadillac Mountain. Eagle Lake in background. Sawed logs beside track. Framed...