Re: Narrow Gauge Preservation leaders

Others have covered some of these names, but these come to mind for Maine's narrow gauge preservation:

* Ellis D Atwood, founder of the Edaville Railroad, who purchased the remaining Bridgton & Harrison RR equipment, and funded the purchase of other equipment.
* Linwood Moody, who for a time was an agent for Atwood and found a whole bunch more Maine equipment to save. He also went on the write The Maine Two Footers, which would have been the first mass market book written about them.
* George McAvoy, founder of Boothbay Railway Village in the mid-1960s. Boothbay has a half dozen pieces of saved equipment.
* Wes Spear, founder of the Sandy River & Rangely Lakes Railroad Museum in Phillips.
* Harry Percival, Jr., founder of the WW&F Railway Museum in Alna.
* Phineas Sprague, Jr., driving force behind the founding of Maine Narrow Gauge RR Museum in Portland, which helped to return the Edaville equipment to Maine - which otherwise would likely have been scattered to the four winds.