Built to reach the aboriginal spruce woods on Mount Abram and then to haul logs to mills in Kingfield, the "little two-foot" railway grew. The two-foot remarks describes the tracks, laid two feet apart.
A narrow gauge railway that spanned a distance of 14.5 miles from Strong to Bigelow, but over some pretty tough terrain. There were a total of four locomotives, two forty foot passenger cars and the remainder of work cars.
The railway only worked from 1884 to 1908 and the parts were sold off. The flat cars were made by The Portland Company in Portland, Maine. There is now a "tourist attraction" two-foot railway in Portland that includes some of the cars, that railway uses a locomotive imported from Denmark, and a couple of the Fanklin and Megantic locomotives ended up in Finland. Part of the railway surface is now part of a "rail trail" that I wrote of a couple of weeks ago.
 |
| A map of the route from Strong to Bigelow. |
 |
| A look down the tracks. |
No comments:
Post a Comment