A Train is Arriving at the Station

by Daniel Hebard

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20.000 x 16.000 inches

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A Train is Arriving at the Station

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Daniel Hebard

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Photograph - Digital Art

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�A Train is Arriving at the Station, � is part of the recorded message played for passengers at DIA, Denver Intenational Airport, waiting to embark from the main terminal to one of three concourses leading to the gates of arriving flights. I could not resist the temptation of giving this title to this quaint old narrow gauge train we visited on our last day visiting friends at my old home State of Maine. It is always a joy to visit there and I always hate leaving. No 4 is a replica locomotive manufactured by Wesley Spear to help resurrect a portion of the SR&RL railroad now located near Phillips, Maine. Searching Google there is significant effort to restore for history and posterity portions of this once vital transportation hub of Central and Northwestern Maine. No 4 is powered by a Mustang engine and pulls a passenger car and caboose on a several mile stretch of track with stops at the SR&RL round house and Phillips, Maine. Those interested in a nostalgic tour with great commentary from a well versed former school teacher, now serving as the Conductor and tour guide, should contact the railroad office in Phillips at 207/778-3621, or secretary@srrl rr.org You should find this most fascinating if you too enjoy time capsules of the past. Days and hours of operation are limited as the staff is all volunteer.
Wikipedia provides some details for those interested in this image.
�The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately 112 miles (180 km) of 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railroad in Franklin County, Maine.
As part of the New England transportation monopoly organized by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the SR&RL operated as a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad from 1912 until receivership in 1923.[4] Maine Central built 37 box cars, 37 flat cars, 3 cabooses and a baggage-RPO car in their Portland Terminal Company shops for the SR&RL between 1912 and 1917.[5] SR&RL locomotives 15, 16, 17 and 18 were reboilered in the Maine Central Waterville shops during the same period, and a 4-mile (6.4 km) freight branch was built from Perham Junction to Barnjum.�
Outbound lumber traffic declined from 50,000 tons in 1906 [6] to 11,000 tons in 1919.[7] Pulpwood traffic increased as smaller spruce trees were harvested. The Phillips shop converted two-thirds of the flat cars for loading with 4-foot-long (1.2 meter) pulpwood logs by installing high, slatted sides and ends loosely resembling a stock car with doors and roof removed.[8]
Federal railway post office service between Farmington and Phillips ended 13 March 1917.[9] Freight traffic peaked at 157,809 tons in 1919; but 84 percent of that freight was pulpwood, and demand for pulpwood declined dramatically when federal paper contracts were canceled at the end of World War I.[7] 1919 was the last year of service on the three miles of the former Eustis Railroad beyond Langtown.[10]

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