. The Boston and Maine Railroad; a history of the main road, with its tributary lines . \ Portland to Brunswick. / -^ |0S^ ( I .ICuiiu>l>unk I ^ t ANDROSCOGGIN RAIL ROAD [j Brunswick to Lewiston. a Issued hi 9 % Si P R. R. ^V (Kennebunk.) TICKETS IN USE FROM 1840 TO 1870 BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 67 The first of the present railroad labor unions was theBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, organized May 8,1863, at Detroit, Michigan. A New England divisionwas formed during the following December at Lebanon,N. H., by the engineers of the Northern Railroad of NewHampshire. The engineer


. The Boston and Maine Railroad; a history of the main road, with its tributary lines . \ Portland to Brunswick. / -^ |0S^ ( I .ICuiiu>l>unk I ^ t ANDROSCOGGIN RAIL ROAD [j Brunswick to Lewiston. a Issued hi 9 % Si P R. R. ^V (Kennebunk.) TICKETS IN USE FROM 1840 TO 1870 BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 67 The first of the present railroad labor unions was theBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, organized May 8,1863, at Detroit, Michigan. A New England divisionwas formed during the following December at Lebanon,N. H., by the engineers of the Northern Railroad of NewHampshire. The engineers of the various roads enteringBoston united to form Boston Division, No. 61, on Janu-ary 6, 1865. The order of Railway Conductors was firstorganized at Mendota, 111., in the spring of 1868, and,until 1878, was known as the Conductors until 1 884 did this Order spread to New England,when Boston Division, No. 122, was organized on July20 of that year. At first, in New England, the brother-hoods were purely social and charitable organizations, butduring the hard times


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