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Rumford Falls & Rangeley Lakes Railroad by Doug Hutchinson SIGNED Soft Cover
The Rumford Falls & Rangeley Lakes Railroad
Doug Hutchinson signed By Arthur
Soft Cover
129 pages
Copyright 1989
Contents
Foreword I
Preface III
Acknowledgements . v
Dedication VII
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 EARLY HISTORY 5
The Beginnings 5
That Horrid Railroad
(Ode to the R.F. & R.L. R.R.) 6
Zadoc Long's Journal 7
The Railroad Pushes North
to the Rumford Area 9
Chronology 13
Chapter 2 The ITALIAN WORKERS . 15
Chapter 3 The ROSTER . 19
Introduction
Locomotives of the Rangeley Road 19
R.F. & R.L. R.R. -
Schedule of Rolling Stock 20
The Locomotive Roster 20
Chapter 4 LOGGING, MINING & MANUFACTURING . 27
Introduction 27
Chapter 5 ONE END of the RAILROAD: RUMFORD ..33
Introduction 33
Rumford in the Early Days 35
Chapter 6 From HALE to ROXBURY 49
Chapter 7 BYRON 55
Introduction 55
Chapter 8 BLANCHARD & TWITCHELL . 63
Introduction 63
Chapter 9 HOUGHTON . 71
Ruel Taylor's Diary 74
John Houghton's Letters 78
Chapter 10 SUMMIT . 87
Chapter 11 BEMIS 91
Introduction 91
The South Bog Railroad 104
Chapter 12 OQUOSSOC . 111
Introduction 111
Chapter 13 KENNEBAGO 117
Chapter 14 The END of THE LINE . 121
Introduction 121
Afterword 129
Introduction
The Mexico resident was my grandmother, Ellen B. Hutchinson, and at the time of the accident I was fourteen months old, not yet fully aware of my surroundings and certainly not old enough to remember the incident. Of course, I've heard many times since then about the accident. It seems that this was my first encounter with "the railroad" from Rumford to Kennebago.
Grandpa, Fred Watson Hutchinson, had left their rented farm one morning in 1927 with a pocketful of money, intent on buying a house for Grandma. Their lives together had been one of continual moving, following jobs, and Grandma longed for the security of owning her own place. She was in near ecstasy that day, anticipating the home for which they had saved over the years. It was not to be. The flash and color of a brand-new 1927 Chevrolet caught Grandpa's eye, and in a fit of desire and enthusiasm he bought the car instead of the house.
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