Re: Then & Now photos of trackwork on the WW&F including new track at TOM

philip.marshall Wrote:
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> Interesting point, Stewart! I hadn't considered
> the issue of tamping before.
>
> Of course the one Maine Two-Footer that did use
> rock ballast was the Monson RR, which had a
> plentiful supply of waste slate from the
> quarries.

** Yes, and there's one place on the Monson where they filled in a 90' trestle with slate chips!

> (The Monson boys seem to have enjoyed being
> contrary.)

** Especially since they kept link and pin couplers and stub switches into the 1940's. When told they had to have headlights on the motive power, they put a Model A Ford headlight on each engine.

Stewart