No. 5 0-4-4T Portland Co. 1890? ex-S. R. 4
6 0-4-4T Portland Co. 1891 ex-S. R. 5
7 0-4-4T Portland Co. 1891 ex-P. & R. 1
8 2-4-4T Baldwin 1907 ex-S. R. 16
9 2-4-4T Baldwin 1909
10 2-4-4T Baldwin 1916
15 2-6-2 Baldwin 1891 ex-P. & R. 3
16 2-6-2 Baldwin 1892 ex-S. R. 2nd 3
17 0-4-4T Baldwin 1893 ex-P. & R. 2
18 2-6-2 Baldwin 1893 ex-S. R. 2nd 2
19 2-6-2 Baldwin 1904 ex-S. R. 8
20 0-4-4T Baldwin 1903 ex-Eustis 7
21 0-4-4T Baldwin 1904 ex-Eustis 8
22 0-4-4T Baldwin 1904 ex-Eustis 9
23 2-6-2 Baldwin 1913
24 2-6-2 Baldwin 1919
Sandy River 1st 3 was an O-4-4T Porter, sold to the W. & Q. in 1894. No.
6 was sold to the Kennebec Central about 1922 as their No. 4, and was
acquired by the W. W. & F. in 1933.
Cars: Another blank wall. The company’s _schedule of property_, typed in
1935 for prospective scrap buyers, says they had 73 boxcars, 58 flats,
and 136 “other freight train cars”. My own observations around there
would place the number of boxcars at nearly twice 73. Several official
reports had given the total number of freight cars as 350 whereas this
_schedule_ amounts to only 267. Just another of those vicissitudes the
historian must bang his head against!
As for those “other freight train cars” they were probably the swarms of
flats fitted with rack sides, for hauling pulpwood. Some may have been
the truant boxcars. Ho-hum.
As for passenger cars, this august _schedule_ says “12 coaches, 3
combination, and 2 baggage”. The 3 combinations and 2 baggage comes out
all right, but I’m nostalgicly moved to wonder where they hid all those
twelve coaches all the years I used to be over there. I was familiar
with five. To be sure, there were a couple of old, abandoned coaches and
one retired combination boarded up, and used as camps. But still, no
twelve.
The _schedule_ lists six cabooses and four gasoline railcars. I’ve seen
eight cabooses, and ridden in five railcars. There were five snowplows
in service, and seven flangers. There were big turntables at Farmington,
Strong, Phillips, Madrid Station, Rangeley, and Kingfield. Three-stall
wooden enginehouses at Rangeley and at Kingfield, and another at Bigelow
before that Carrabasset-Bigelow section was abandoned about twenty years
ago. The big ten-stall brick house at Phillips is still there, used for
a woodworking mill.
MONSON RAILROAD
Chartered in 1882; built in 1883. 6 miles. Abandoned 1945.
Engines:
Nos. 1 and 2, O-4-4T Hinckley 1882
3 O-4-4T Vulcan 1912 now Edaville 3
4 O-4-4T Vulcan 1918 now Edaville 4
Cars: 1 Combination; 28 flat and boxcars. 1 snowplow, 1 spreader.
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