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Museum Moments: The Lion Locomotive

May 11, 2020 / Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Videos

The Lion was built in 1846. For almost 50 years the Lion hauled lumber from the mills in Whitneyville to the schooners in Machiasport.

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The steam locomotive Lion, built in Boston by Hinkley & Drury, 1846, as displayed in the Maine State Museum.

Photograph of the locomotive Lion after its float collapsed during the 1898 Fourth of July parade in Portland. Maine State Museum Collections.

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