NARROW GAUGE IN SHEEPSCOT VALLEY Vol 1 Wiscasset to Head Tide WW&F History Book for Sale

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NARROW GAUGE IN SHEEPSCOT VALLEY Vol 1 Wiscasset to Head Tide WW&F History Book For Sale

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NARROW GAUGE IN SHEEPSCOT VALLEY Vol 1 Wiscasset to Head Tide WW&F History Book:
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NARROW GAUGE IN SHEEPSCOT VALLEY Vol 1 Wiscasset to Head Tide WW&F History Book
Scarce 1st book of the series :
Narrow Gauge in the Sheepscot Valley, a Comprehensive Guide to the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, Volume I - Wiscasset to Head Tide.
Published by Washingtonville: M2FQ Publications, 2001.
by Chris McChesney,Jerry DeVos,Gary Kohler.
1st edition. 117 pages. Softcover. Cover conditions as shown. Binding good. Text and illustrations clean throughout. "The line began operating to Weeks Mills on February 20, 1895, as the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad. The line was reorganized in 1901 as the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway following the inability to negotiate a crossing of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad near Burnham Junction. The reorganized WW&F completed a branch line from Weeks Mills to the Kennebec River at Winslow but failed to negotiate a connection with the Sandy River Railroad at Farmington, and therefore never reached Quebec.The WW&F hauled potatoes, lumber, and poultry along with other general freight and passengers. Freight tonnage in 1914 was 43% outbound lumber, 16% outbound potatoes and canned corn, 14% inbound feed and grain, 10% inbound manufactured goods, 5% inbound coal, and 4% outbound hay.In the late 1920s, the railroad began to struggle, thanks to competition from roads. It was purchased by Frank Winter, a businessman with lumber interests in Palermo. He had also bought two cargo schooners, which he proposed would carry coal north from Boston and return south with lumber, while the railroad would transport coal and lumber between Wiscasset and interior points in Maine. On June 15, 1933, as a result of a locomotive derailment, operations ceased and this business venture never came to fruition. Winter died in 1936. Most of the railroad was scrapped, while the schooners were abandoned beside the railroad wharf in Wiscasset. " - WikiPlease see my responses for references.
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