Locomotives:
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are open to question. Probably F. & M. 1 and 2; S. R. 1; and P. & R. 4 Bo-peep were the culprits; but which were which no one knows.
| No. 5 | 0-4-4T | Portland Co. | 1890? | ex-S. R. 4 |
| 6 | 0-4-4T | Portland Co. | 1891 | ex-S. R. 5 |
| 7 | 0-4-4T | Portland Co. | 1891 | ex-P. & R. 1 |
| 8 | 2-4-4T | Baldwin | 1907 | ex-S. R. 16 |
| 9 | 2-4-4T | Baldwin | 1909 | |
| 10 | 2-4-4T | Baldwin | 1916 | |
| 15 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1891 | ex-P. & R. 3 |
| 16 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1892 | ex-S. R. 2nd 3 |
| 17 | 0-4-4T | Baldwin | 1893 | ex-P. & R. 2 |
| 18 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1893 | ex-S. R. 2nd 2 |
| 19 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1904 | ex-S. R. 8 |
| 20 | 0-4-4T | Baldwin | 1903 | ex-Eustis 7 |
| 21 | 0-4-4T | Baldwin | 1904 | ex-Eustis 8 |
| 22 | 0-4-4T | Baldwin | 1904 | ex-Eustis 9 |
| 23 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1913 | |
| 24 | 2-6-2 | Baldwin | 1919 |
Sandy River 1st 3 was an O-4-4T Porter, sold to the W. & Q. in 1894. No. 6 was sold to the Kennebec Central about 1922 as their No. 4, and was acquired by the W. W. & F. in 1933.
Cars: Another blank wall. The company’s schedule of property, typed in 1935 for prospective scrap buyers, says they had 73 boxcars, 58 flats, and 136 “other freight train cars”. My own observations around there would place the number of boxcars at nearly twice 73. Several official reports had given the total number of freight cars as 350 whereas this schedule amounts to only 267. Just another of those vicissitudes the historian must bang his head against!
As for those “other freight train cars” they were probably the swarms of flats fitted with rack sides, for hauling pulpwood. Some may have been the truant boxcars. Ho-hum.
As for passenger cars, this august schedule says “12 coaches, 3 combination, and 2 baggage”. The 3 combinations and 2 baggage comes out all right, but I’m nostalgicly moved to wonder where they hid all those twelve coaches all the years I used to be over there. I was familiar with five. To be sure, there were a couple of old, abandoned coaches and one retired combination boarded up, and used as camps. But still, no twelve.
The schedule lists six cabooses and four gasoline railcars. I’ve seen eight cabooses, and ridden in five railcars. There were five snowplows in service, and seven flangers. There were big turntables at Farmington, Strong, Phillips, Madrid Station, Rangeley, and Kingfield. Three-stall wooden enginehouses at Rangeley and at Kingfield, and another at Bigelow before that Carrabasset-Bigelow section was abandoned about twenty years ago. The big ten-stall brick house at Phillips is still there, used for a woodworking mill.
Monson Railroad
Chartered in 1882; built in 1883. 6 miles. Abandoned 1945.