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Ride The Sandy River By Cornwall & Farrell America's largest 2' Gauge railroad
Ride The Sandy River By L Peter Cornwall & Jack W Farrell Visit the past on Americas largest two foot gauge railroad
Hard cover with Dust Jacket HAS plastic covering
Copyright 1973 FIRST EDITION
248 Pages
Contents
Going North on the
Sandy River Mixed 11
Heading for the
Tall Timber 25
Franklin County Summer . . . 41
Farmington: Two-Foot
Gauge Gateway 51
Strong Interlude 65
Rolling into Kingfield 75
Home Base : Phillips 89
There Was More 101
Big Bells, Big Headlights,
Small Boilers 119
The First Generation 125
Power for a Growing Empire . 133
Modernizing the Roster 149
Wooden Cars & Single Seats . . 173
Moving the Freight 201
An American Classic 227
SR & RL SYSTEM MAP 8-9
ROSTER OF MOTIVE POWER 242
INDEX 244
BIBLIOGRAPHY247
Maine's Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad is certainly one of the most intriguing rail systems ever built. Its rails were only two feet wide, yet they provided a unique and personalized service to the people of Franklin County, Maine, for more than 50 years.
Constructed in the late 1870's as the Sandy River Railroad, it was consolidated in 1908 with several smaller lines to form the largest two-foot gauge rail network in the country. It reached it's zenith during the next ten years. But by the '30s, the depression, the automobile and the truck had made their impact felt ... and the blow was hard! Sadly, for railfans yet to come, the railroad was not to survive and operations ended in 1935.
Fortunately a few young men, with perhaps an unrecognized sense of history, were making journeys "down Maine", shooting snapshots and scribbling notes in those final years. By bits and pieces they recorded the story of the SR & RL. One of these was Peter Cornwall.
Here then is an invitation to travel with Pete back to those simpler, early '30s days and join him for a trip or two on Sandy River trains.
You'll visit the road in winter as well as summer. Along the way you'll see all the locos, and many of the cars, stations, covered tanks, engine houses, the industries and towns that form the Sandy River story.
You'll become very knowledgeable about the Sandy River ....why it was built, where it went and what it did. You'll find it a worthwhile and captivating journey.
So come aboard... RIDE THE SANDY RIVER!
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