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Stewart Rhine

August 08, 2019 10:42AM

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philip.marshall Wrote:
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> It's a peculiar and little-known fact that narrow
> gauge arrived in Maine within the same decade (the
> 1870s) that standard gauge first became dominant
> in the state.

True, it's when the Massachusetts B&B two foot gauge railroad was sold and everything taken to Franklin County, Maine to create the Sandy River RR.
The SRRR opened in 1879 and that was the beginning of the era of the "Maine Two-Footers".

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