Timetable - June 19, 1948

For the first time in this collection a diesel locomotive appears on the cover of a B&A timetable! These units were purchased late in 1947, making it somewhat odd that it would take this long to get them onto a timetable, being as their purchase should have been a big deal. Color scheme wise, we are back to green, the effective date remains near the top, the photo has been changed in the double inside page ad, but the text remains unaltered. On the through train page, the timing has been altered for the Maine Central connection for the Northbound Potatoland Special and passengers are being changed over in Bangor. The Flying Yankee however is still stopping at Northern Maine Junction to exchange passengers with the Northbound Aroostook Flyer. The Southbound Flyer is doing the same with the Kennebec Limited, but the Southbound Potatoland Special gets all the way to Bangor to change passengers. The Schedule seems to have been altered here as the Potatoland is now due into Bangor at 9:30 PM, earlier than previous. Trains 9 and 12 are still combined with the Northbound Potatoland and Southbound Flyer from Derby, as has been the practice for some time. However, the return trip, #12 now gets into Derby at 9:40 AM, but does not leave until 11:57. That leaves someone with over two hours to wander around the Derby station with not much to do. Train #9 will get you to Greenville at 6:00 and if you want to return, you have to be back on the train at 7:30, AM. An hour and a half is not a lot of time to do much. One presumes not many went up and back in the same day if they had any form of business to conduct, or at least not by the train. Hasey's Maine Stages (long since a bus service in all but name) did offer two round trips to Bangor and that information is included in the B&A timetable. The bus service around Sherman - the first bus service the B&A even experimented with back in 1936 - is no longer in the rail side of the timetable. We find it in the Bus section - but unlike the last timetable, Houlton is not mentioned. It is only running between Patten, Sherman and Island Falls. This remains a local service, connecting with two trains at Sherman Station. Elsewhere, no major changes seem to have occurred. 

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