PASSENGER CAR GETS NEW LIFE

I had read that after the Green Mountain Railway Company went out of business, everything was put up for auction, and during that auction a Bar Harbor artist purchased one of the passenger cars.  He had the passenger car hauled to Main Street in Bar Harbor where the seats were removed and it was converted into small shop.  I always wondered what ever became of that passenger car and the other day I came across an old newspaper article, listed below.

August 18, 1915
Bar Harbor Record

"The old Souvenir, a building which was made out of a car which helped to make up that famous train which ran up Green Mountain, was nearly destroyed by fire on Tuesday night, of last week.  The car was made over into a building and served as a cobbler shop on Main Street for a number of years, and was finally moved back on which is known as the Back Hill and occupied as a dwelling by Gene Stevens.  On Tuesday night the owner rushed into the engine house and said that his bungalow was all on fire.  The firemen went down with a chemical and after some trouble succeeded in putting out the fire.  The bed had caught, apparently from a pipe, and the whole place came near being destroyed."

The above article raises a good question, where was Back Hill?  In all my research this is the first time I have run into that name, if anyone knows where Back Hill was, drop a line.

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