Antique Painted Wooden Boston & Maine Railroad Sign Shipping Available

Description

A wonderful piece of history, this is a painted wooden sign from the Boston & Maine Railroad. The sign is a painted one sided sign with an fantastic old surface and is on a heavy thick wooden board. If you look at historic photos of the line you can see signs for this line that are the same shape and using the same typeface.
Here is a brief history of the line: On February 23, 1843, the B&M opened to Agamenticus, on the line of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad in South Berwick. On January 28 of that year the B&M and Eastern Railroad came to an agreement to both lease the PS&P as a joint line to Portland.
The Boston and Maine Railroad Extension was incorporated March 16, 1844, due to a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates between Wilmington and Boston. That company was merged into the main B&M on March 19, 1845, and opened July 1, leading to the abandonment of the old connection to the B&L (later reused by the B&L for their Wildcat Branch). In 1848 another original section was abandoned, as a new alignment was built from Wilmington north to North Andover, Massachusetts, in order to better serve Lawrence, Massachusetts.
The sign is very in wonderful condition and is very sturdy. It measures 10 feet long x 12" high x 1 1/8" thick.
We can easily and safely ship this sign both internationally and nationally, please ask for a quotation.
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Item ID:
3812