Mike Torreson 128 pages softcover
Beginning in 1932, Linwood W. Moody (1905-1983) documented in
photographs and collected artifacts of Maine's two-footer railroads. A
pioneer of railroad photography, his work led to articles in numerous
publications such as Railroad Magazine and later culminated in Linwood's
1959 publication The Maine Two-Footers. Among his personal effects at
the time of his death in 1983 were hundreds of photographs of three of
the Maine two-footers--the Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington
Railway, the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad, and the Monson
Railroad. The state of Maine was unique in regards to its narrow-gauge
railroads. Most railroads in the United States have a width of four
feet, eight and one half inches between the rails, known as standard
gauge. Due to the efforts of George Mansfield, a railroad promoter of
the late 1800s, a very narrow gauge of two feet between the rails was
successfully developed in the state of Maine.
