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Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - sailormatlac - 07-16-2013
I've been documenting many branchline terminus over the last weeks and found out this interesting picture of Calais Station, Maine which is is the subject of a interesting switching layout still in building process.
![[Image: t0376.JPG]](http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/aldershotscan2/mec/t0376.JPG)
I'm amazed how the sidings climb a "steep" grade before reaching the freight house. But, most amazing is the second siding that is serving a loading pier diretly located on the the grade. Was such occurences a rarity? I suspect the took advantage of the natural relief. That way, the warehouse floor is at street level on one side and raised on the other.
Anyway, I'm just puzzled how unloading a freight car on a grade must have been tedious.
BTW, any of you ever saw a front picture of Calais Station? Most pictures show the side or the street view. Old postcards show a steel canopy running in front and independantly from the main station. It's definitely a interesting mundane building. Any relevant book could be useful too.
Matt
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - MountainMan - 07-17-2013
Your image didn't show up.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - faraway - 07-17-2013
MountainMan Wrote:Your image didn't show up.Funny thing is if you grab the photo address and ask the browser to retrieve it direct it shows up perfect. Looks like embedding into another site is in trouble or intentionally disabled by Anglefire.
Here the link imbedded with the image tag and it does not work
But if you click here it will show up
http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/aldershotscan2/mec/t0376.JPG
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - MountainMan - 07-17-2013
Nope...apparently it's blocked by the Firefox security screen. :?
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - faraway - 07-18-2013
MountainMan Wrote:Nope...apparently it's blocked by the Firefox security screen. :?Strange, I am on Safari (iMac).
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - Tyson Rayles - 07-18-2013
I tried Firefox and IE and no luck. This problem can be avoided by simply posting directly to the forum.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - MountainMan - 07-18-2013
Image is there now and it's a beauty! There is some real "atmosphere" there to capture.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - Tyson Rayles - 07-18-2013
Nope, still no pic here. Link doesn't work either.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - Tyson Rayles - 07-18-2013
O.K., between my desktop and my laptop I have tried IE6/IE7/Firefox and Chrome and nothing here in the thread or at the link.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - faraway - 07-18-2013
Something changed. The photos became visible in my append dated 17 Jul 2013, 21:34
Just call yourself a computer specialist 
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - Tyson Rayles - 07-18-2013
The link takes me to a page with the Angelfire logo but no pic. In the browser bar it reads Lycos.com.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - faraway - 07-19-2013
Tyson Rayles Wrote:The link takes me to a page with the Angelfire logo but no pic. In the browser bar it reads Lycos.com.Yes, it is broken again this morning.... ?
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - FCIN - 07-19-2013
This much of the link http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/aldershotscan2/mec/ will take you to the photo album, but I can't say I ever found the image you're talking about. Would it be the brick structure in the middle of the bottom row on page 2 of the album?
I'd say that the web site is set up to prevent "hot linking" and that's why the individual image can't be displayed from another web site.
Re: Freight Shed, Calais, Maine - Sumpter250 - 07-19-2013
Angel ???? fire.
Oh well, onwards and upwards to bigger and better things, but it would have been nice to see that freight shed.