Jerry Devos Hardcover
The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad had its origins in a group of Franklin County leaders and businessmen who were determined to bring reliable transportation to their lightly populated county in Northwestern Maine. Using equipment from the defunct two-foot gauge Billerica & Bedford Railroad am 18 mile ling railroad was constructed that soon became an operating, commercial and financial success and the basis of a much larger system. This volume describes the locomotives and freight cars built by the Portland Company, the history of the shops of the Franklin & Megantic, Phillips & Rangeley, Snady River and Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad, the excursion cars built by the Phillips & Rangeley and the excursion cars, railcars, railbuses and cabooses built by the Sandy River and the SR&RL.