586 Wiscasset Rd Rt 27Boothbay, ME 04537
Boothbay, ME
Business Hours
(Please Call to Confirm)
OpenFriday 10:00am -
5:00pm
monday
10:00am-5:00pm
tuesday
10:00am-5:00pm
wednesday
10:00am-5:00pm
thrusday
10:00am-5:00pm
friday
10:00am-5:00pm
saturday
10:00am-5:00pm
sunday
10:00am-5:00pm
About Boothbay Railway Village
Member since
July 2021
Specialties: We invite you to travel back in time to vintage Vacationland with us. Nowhere else in New England can you ride the rails behind an authentic steam locomotive surrounded by historic Maine buildings preserved in a recreated village, and view a collection of 60 antique autos. When you visit the Museum you'll learn about how technologies like steam engines and the automobile changed li...Specialties: We invite you to travel back in time to vintage Vacationland with us. Nowhere else in New England can you ride the rails behind an authentic steam locomotive surrounded by historic Maine buildings preserved in a recreated village, and view a collection of 60 antique autos. When you visit the Museum you'll learn about how technologies like steam engines and the automobile changed life along the coast of Maine between 1850 and 1950. Established in 1965. By late 1963, George McEvoy, just 27 years old, was amassing a significant collection of railroad memorabilia. He had filled the family home in Grafton, Massachusetts and it appeared that their Southport, Maine summer cottage was about to succumb to the same fate. He had to find a place to store his collection.
Teaching school in Bowdoinham at the time, George had befriended Phillip Carr, the station agent at Freeport, on frequent visits on days off. On one such visit a sign was posted on the door that said the station would be closing. When Phillip told George that the station itself would be put up for sale the first idea of having a Museum took hold.
George purchased Freeport Station, was later gifted Thorndike Station from the Belfast & Moosehead Railroad and then found himself and his friends spending the summer of 1964 laying three quarters of a mile of railroad track around what would eventually become the site of today's Boothbay Railway Village.see more