The Mountain Division (later the Mountain Subdivision) is a railroad line that was once owned and operated by the Maine Central Railroad. It stretches from Portland, Maine on the Atlantic Ocean, through the Western Maine Mountains and White Mountains of New Hampshire, ending at St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the Northeast Kingdom. The line was deactivated and eventually abandoned in 1983 by Maine Central's then-new parent company, Guilford Transportation Industries. Guilford retained a stub between Portland and Westbrook. A section in New Hampshire remains active today as the Conway Scenic Railroad.
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And then there was a wall of trees with trunks;
After that only tops of trees, and cliffs
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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