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The Sandy River Railroad was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway built to serve the towns of Strong and Phillips in the Sandy River valley upstream of Farmington.The Sandy River Railroad was the first narrow gauge common carrier railroad built in the State of Maine.
The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway. The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset , Albion , and Winslow , but was abandoned in 1936.
The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately 112 miles (180 km) of track in Franklin County, Maine. The former equipment from the SR&RL continues to operate in the present day on a revived, short segment of the railway in Phillips, Maine .
On 1 July 1891, scheduled train service commenced from Rangeley to the Maine Central Railroad in Farmington via the Sandy River Railroad from Phillips. P&R locomotive #1 was the first 2 ft (610 mm) gauge locomotive built by the Portland Company. It was the largest 2 ft (610 mm) gauge locomotive in Maine when
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum (2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge) Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad ( 2 ft ( 610 mm ) narrow gauge ) Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway ( 2 ft ( 610 mm ) narrow gauge )
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
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However, with the decline in ore traffic during the early 20th century, the railroad scrapped these plans and the Farmington branch was converted to narrow-gauge in 1923. [3] After World War II, many of the surrounding Narrow gauge lines (such as the Rio Grande Southern Railroad) closed due to lack of Traffic.