Vacation Land: Track 2 ; Transportation Director Jeffrey Monroe and His Wife, Linda, Turn a Railroad Car Into Their Getaway.
Portland Press Herald › January 19, 2005
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He is best known as Portland's robust and reliable director of ports and transportation, in the news regularly, pitching waterfront development plans or explaining weather delays at Portland International Jetport. Lately, when Jeffrey Monroe takes time off, the former merchant mariner trades his captain's hat for a conductor's cap.
Monroe and his wife, Linda, are renovating a 1953 Budd stainless- steel passenger railroad car into a vacation home, complete with full-size kitchen, living room, bathroom and bedroom.See the full content of this document
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Vacation Land: Track 2 ; Transportation Director Jeffrey Monroe and His Wife, Linda, Turn a Railroad Car Into Their Getaway.
The Cape Elizabeth couple bought the car in June 2003 and keep it at the Hobo Railroad station, just off the Kancamagus Highway. Here, spring through fall, trainloads of tourists begin and end their thrice-daily tours of the Pemigewasset River Valley, in the...
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