MAINE CENTRAL RAIL AND BUS STATION

BATH, MAINE

Population 10.235

Builders: TREDENICK-BILLINGS Co., Boston, Mass.

Supervision: Maine Central Division Engineers under direction of T. G. Shugrue, Chief Engineer.

Services: Maine Central Railroad serving Maine and part of New Hampshire and Vermont.

Maine Central Transportation Company serving northern New England.

Structural Details and Facilities

EXTERIOR. The new station building at Bath, occupying an area 124' x 29', is located on the approximate site of the former depot built in 1889. It is a one-story colonial design structure with pitched roof, dormers, and a cupola.

Exterior walls are of hollow tile, faced with water-struck brick.

Passenger platforms are of modern type with hard-surfaced top and granite curbing. Platforms are approximately 600' long on the track side, and total about 6541 sq. ft. in area.

INTERIOR. In addition to a Waiting Room of inviting cheerfulness, the new station building provides a Ticket Office, Women's and Men's Rooms, Baggage Office and Room, and quarters for the Rail- way Express Agency, comprising a general office, an on-hand room, and an express room.

Walls of the Waiting Room have a plywood dado with plaster running above it to the moulding and ceiling. The retiring room walls have asbestos tile board dado with plaster above.

Comfortable lounge furniture and individual chairs are available for waiting patrons, arranged in such manner that the floor space of over 900 square feet, part of which is utilized by the Ticket Office. gives ample space and freedom for movement.

At one end of the room are 4 Self-service Luggage Checking Cabinets containing 12 standard and 3 oversize compartments. This facility is recessed between the telephone booths, convenient to travelers' use.

Indirect lighting gives illumination for the Waiting Room.

Heat is furnished by hot water system with radiation concealed in the walls and operating through flush grilles.

This new station has a capacity of 175 people and is used by about 300 passengers daily.

Its many modern facilities, equipment, and their arrangement completely satisfy a basic requirement of small stations of its type: Ease of supervision and maintenance with a minimum staff.

In 1941, the American Locker Company Ltd. started the renovation works on the MoPac Station at Wichita, Kansas. 

Here's an unusual travel treat; the enjoyment of wonderful food, freshly prepared, while viewing the constantly changing scenery . . . the verdant valleys and rolling hills, palisades of vari-colored stone, and other typical western scenery. 

According to wikipedia:

Galloping Goose is the popular name given to a series of seven railcars (officially designated as "motors" by the railroad), built in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) and operated until the end of service on the line in the early 1950s. They were derived from full-sized automobiles.

Originally running steam locomotives on narrow gauge railways, the perpetually struggling RGS developed the first of the "geese" as a way to keep its contract to run mail into towns in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. 

The downstairs Lounge, beautifully appointed, with stairs leading to the Astra Dome on the Domeliners "City of Los Angeles" and "City of Portland." Picture yourself in the photo on the reverse side. 

The Grand Canyon of the Arkansas River is nearly ten miles in length, extending from neor Canon City, Colorado to Parkdale. About midway of The Grand Canyon is The Royal Gorge which is the deepest and narrowest part of the Canyon, there the walls rise to a height of 2,500 feet. At this point where the walls are only 30 feet apart, the constructing engineers were obliged to build a bridge parallel with the river and suspended from the Conyon walls from the solid granite rocks above to provide space for The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's Main Line roadbed. All passenger trains through The Royal Gorge stop ten minutes at The Hanging Bridge.