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Rail-fan Pictures of the Pittsfield Depot

Pittsfield before the railroad was a gathering of mostly farms, with a gristmill, sawmill, three or four blacksmith shops, a carriage shop, and two or three stores to serve them. Then the Penobscot and Kennebec built tracks through town on its way from Bangor to Waterville and gave it connections to the south. This railroad then merged with the Androscoggin and Kennebec to become the Maine Central. The Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad also built from Pittsfield toward Moosehead Lake in 1886, but line would only reach Heartland. The Maine Central built this new one story station in 1888 to handle the traffic.

Many of the stained glass windows were damaged over time, but suitable replacements were found in the old Maine Central RR Station in Wilton when the Pittsfield Historical society was restoring the building in June, 1977. Unfortunately the Wilton depot was taken down.