Timetable - October 26, 1958

Considering the bright, colorful, treatment the bus only timetable got earlier in 1958 makes the black and white treatment on this one seem odd. When one opens to the timetable page it appears that a shocking number of trains are running. A more detailed look quickly reveals that only one train is running, six days per week. The Potatoland Special is the lone passenger train left. It still offers food service and sleeping car service in both directions, but one wonders how much of that is making money and how much of that is refusing to give up on passenger car service. Perhaps most telling is the advertisement for the Avis Rent-a-Car system, which the B&A was a licensee at this time. Even the railroad has gone into the automobile business. The railroad is promoting the Free Pickup and Delivery service for freight and you can still get a Pullman car on the Potatoland Special. 
It should be noted that there is still daily-except-Sunday service from Derby to Greenville and return. It is however, only one train per day and there is no direct connection with Main Line trains. 
Although the bus service is certainly picking up the ball and running with it, train service is certainly not what it used to be in Northern Maine.

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