Monson station building and a short length of restored track, 2007
The Monson Railroad was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway, which operated between Monson Junction on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Monson, Maine. The primary purpose of this railroad was to serve several slate mines and finishing houses in Monson.[1] According to the Scientific American of 17 May 1890, it was the smallest railroad in the United States.
Equipment was never modernized, and the railroad used antique stub switches and link-and-pin couplers to the end of operations in 1943.[2][3] The line was the last commercial carrier in the United States to use such couplers or to run above ground on a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge.[4] (The 2 ft (610 mm) gauge Chicago Tunnel Company continued underground operation as a common carrier freight subway until 1959.)
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when the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad was dismantled in 1941. After World War II he acquired two former MonsonRailroad locomotives and some surviving...
Palmer and Monson Street Railway, was a streetcar company in the towns east of Springfield, Massachusetts. The first line of the Palmer and Monson Street...
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River Railroad #1 following a wreck in early 1882. The successful design of the Bridgton Hinkleys was subsequently repeated for the MonsonRailroad and...
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Evergreen Press. Barney, Peter S.. (1986). The Kennebec Central and MonsonRailroads. A&M Publishing. Moody, Linwood W. (1959). The Maine Two-Footers. Howell-North...
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