Re: Some narrow gauge places...
| April 02, 2017 06:41PM |
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bcp Wrote:
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> [www.narrowgaugecinema.net]
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The Narrow Gauge Cinema in Farmington, Maine actually occupies the site of the SR&RL/MEC interchange, so there definitely used to be a railroad there (two railroads, in fact), even if there is none now. It's rather sad, to be honest.
Here is the place in April 2015:
And the very same view, circa 1879 (from an old stereoview), as shown in Guy Rioux's The Franklin County Narrow Gauges: The Next Stop is Phillips:
-Philip Marshall
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> ...that aren't railroads.
>
>
> [www.narrowgaugecinema.net]
>
The Narrow Gauge Cinema in Farmington, Maine actually occupies the site of the SR&RL/MEC interchange, so there definitely used to be a railroad there (two railroads, in fact), even if there is none now. It's rather sad, to be honest.
Here is the place in April 2015:
And the very same view, circa 1879 (from an old stereoview), as shown in Guy Rioux's The Franklin County Narrow Gauges: The Next Stop is Phillips:
-Philip Marshall
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bcp | April 02, 2017 10:55AM |
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rehunn | April 02, 2017 01:42PM |
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philip.marshall | April 02, 2017 06:41PM |
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Wayne Laepple | April 02, 2017 07:09PM |
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rehunn | April 02, 2017 07:28PM |
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Brian Norden | April 08, 2017 09:58PM |
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rehunn | April 09, 2017 01:27PM |
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Mallory Hope Ferrell | April 08, 2017 01:24PM |
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