micro trains 03800390 bangor & aroostook 50' bx

Bangor & Aroostook Road Number BAR 501 This blue 50? standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk has an aluminum roof, black, white & blue Fraser Paper logo and runs on black Barber? roller bearing trucks with blue draft gear lids. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad was incorporated in 1891, combining the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad and the Bangor and Katahdin Railroad. In 1893, the railroad was extended to Houlton, and a year later it reached Caribou and Fort Fairfield. By the early 1900?s, the BAR served the localities of Patten, Limestone, Ashland, Van Buren, and Searsport. The primary source of traffic for the BAR is, of course, the pulp and paper industry.