(Moody Photo)
No. 7 when she was a girl at home. Here she waits at Bridgton Junction for men to load mail and express into the baggage-car; then she’ll breeze up the hills to Bridgton, 16 miles, in an even 40 minutes!
Gosh! Here it is Six-thirty; they’re backing the Sunset Special in. Maybe Mr. Atwood would like to show you those pictures of old two-footers in the few minutes that are left. I see he’s finished his steamed clams now.
Guess I’ll mosey onto the platform and see who’s in the crowd. Always hoped Kilroy might be here sometime!
(Moody Photo)
The first 2-foot gauge enginette in America, Bedford & Billerica “Ariel” No. 1. You see her here as Sandy River No. 1 less a monstrous smokestack and goldleaf filigree.