Editing Vanceboro, Maine (section)

==History==
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Vanceboro was selected as the border crossing for the [[European and North American Railway]] (E&NA) between [[Bangor, Maine]], and [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], during surveys in the 1860s.

This line was opened by U.S. President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and [[Governor General of Canada]] [[John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar|Lord Lisgar]] during a ceremony at the border in October 1871.  In 1882, the E&NA's rail line from Vanceboro to Bangor was leased by the [[Maine Central Railroad]].  In 1889, the MEC's rail line through Vanceboro became part of the transcontinental network of the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] following construction of the [[International Railway of Maine]]. In 1955 the MEC purchased the entire line from the E&NA shareholders, and in 1974 the CPR purchased the line through Vanceboro from the MEC.  On January 1, 1995, CPR sold the line through Vanceboro to the [[New Brunswick Southern Railway]], which operates as the [[Eastern Maine Railway (1995)|Eastern Maine Railway]] in the United States.

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On February 2, 1915, Lt. Werner Horn, a German army reservist, bombed the [[Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge|international railway bridge]] crossing the St. Croix River from Vanceboro into Canada in an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage the CPR line across Maine; it was alleged that the railway was being used to transport war material across the then-neutral United States territory.