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KENNEBUNKPORT — A 74-ton railroad station from Boston on Thursday completed the last leg of its trip to Maine, where the 1901 structure will grace a trolley museum.
The Northhampton Street Station, a gift of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, was moved in two pieces across this seaside resort town Thursday.
One truck hauled the 28-foot-high walls of the station, and a second truck pulled the 26-foot-wide roof, which had been lifted from the building by huge cranes a day earlier.
Hauling the station in one piece would have required the removal of telephone lines.
Officials at the Seashore Trolley Museum plan to renovate the former station and place it on stilts to re-create its former appearance as an elevated station, said D. Thomas Bergen, chief fund-raiser for the moving project, which is expected to cost $50,000.
The station made the first leg of its journey to Maine by sea, after being loaded aboard a converted oil barge in Boston.
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