From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Northern ME. Junction Depot. 15
A group of men, who appear to be workers, conductors and railroad executives, stand on the broad wooden platform in front of the Northern Maine Junction station, in Hermon -- six miles west of Bangor. The typical passenger station, here seen around 1910, is a simple frame building with hipped roof and broad, bracketed overhangs. An L-shape signal is mounted prominently on the roof. The enormous blades of a railroad snowplow are partly visible behind the building, at the right. Some freight cars can be seen behind and to the left of the station. The surroundings hint at the extensive infrastructure of this important railroad junction, where the Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook, and Penobscot & Kennebec lines came together.
