The Next Stop is Farmington

If you follow the S.R.R.L. equipment, at the end of the book there will be graphs documenting known car numbers of the F&M (25), P&R (52), and S.R.R. (84) from company records of 1898, 1901-03, and 1907. These predate the cars listed in Two Feet Between the Rails and the 1916 I.C.C. Survey. If you so choose, you will then be able to use company records or photos you have access to and fill in missing car numbers, as well as determine whether they were boxcars or flatcars.

For the modelers, if you have modeled Rangeley Station, how many screen doors did you use and what are their size? The Kingfield engine house, do you have the three “Tungsten or Mazdar 40 watt lamps” or the board feet and lumber dimensions used to build the 1912 “oil room” or the dimensions of the two engine pits? How about the track length of the station’s sliding door and its hanger brand used for locomotives?

Chapters:

1 The Shooting Star

2 Track Cars 1903-1922: The Old, The New & The Cancelled

3 Meet the New Boss

4 The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Communications

5 1912…The Upgrades Begin

6 The Ongoing Honeymoon

7 The Mt. Abram Branch

8 The Barnjum Branch

9 The 1915-16 Survey

10 The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes & W.W. I

11 The Strike & Pandemic

12 Turntables

13 Train No.17 is in the River

14 Track cars: 1923

15 Railbuses

16 Crawled, Hobbled, Staggered – Didn’t Roll Into Kingfield

17 The End of a Shooting Star

The photo with this update was discovered after the book was done. It is an example of a subject covered extensively in the book for the first time. This photo is an excellent example of changes at the Phillips Station late in operations and after the platform was removed. When reading on the subject remember this photo.

International Sales: The U.S.P.S. raised international shipping rates drastically last year such that international postage for this book is $62.00. Australians, if you set up the shipping through your post office with U.S.P.S. it is a lot less money.