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Keeping track of the tracks

by Staff Aroostook Republican
17 years ago
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    At the train station in Caribou, 1922.

 

 

 

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    A miniature locomotive was a Winter Carnival favorite in the early years.

 

 

 

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    Local ‘oil man’ Mickey Carter in 1948.
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