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Railroadians of America Book #4 Billerica & Bedford of Massachusetts 1877
Railroadians of America Volume 4 Billerica & Bedford of Massachusetts 1877
The First Two-Foot Gauge Railroad - A description with illustrations of its location permanent way and rolling stock
Soft Cover
27 pages
Copyright 1950 August Reprint of 1879 Railroad Gazetter Pub
CONTENTS
Foreword
The Billerica & Bedford Two-Feet Gauge RR1
Bedford Horizontal Scale2
Bedford Vertical Scale3
Forney Tank Locomotive for the Billerica & Bedford13
Box and Flat Cars for the Billerica & Bedford RR15
Freight and Excursion Car Truck16
Excursion Car for the Billerica & Bedford RR17
Passenger and Combination Cars for the Billerica18
Truck for the Passenger and Combination Car20
The RAILROADIANS OF AMERICA present this HISTORY OF THE BILLERICA & BEDFORD RAILWAY as its Book No. 4, to fill an interest in the little two-foot narrow gauge railways which made history in our Country, and are now extinct.
The Billerica 8 Bedford Railroad was short-lived and ill-starred, as it was chartered in 1876; opened for service on November 28, 1877; in the hands of Receivers in 1878; and sold in bankruptcy June 6, 1878. It had two locomotives, four passenger cars and seven freight cars, all of which were sold to the Sandy River and Rangely Lakes Railroad in Maine. The two locomotives were built in Roston by Hinkley in 1877, and intended normally to run backwards- that is, tender first.
Patient searching through the files of the New York Public Library by our Vice President, Harold lessersohn, brought this interesting and unusual pamphlet, originally published in 1879, to light. Through the courtesy of the New York Public Library it was made available for publication. The Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, successors to the original publishers of the pamphlet, graciously gave their permission for us to republish it, so that the story of this little-known and short-lived Massachusetts two-foot gauge railway may be told to present day students of railroad history. The splendid cover drawing and graphic map, which are an addition to the original text, were drawn by our talented Western Vice President, Frederic Shaw. Our President, Milton Bernstein supplied the interesting little cut of the town of Billerica at the time of the railroad.
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