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Narrow Gauge
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The Maine Two-Footers Author: Linwood Moody, Robert C. Jones (Editor) Publisher: Heimburger House Publishing Company; (September 15, 1998)
Originally published in 1959 this is the story of the two-foot-gauge railroads of Maine, including the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, the Monson, the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington, the Edaville and the Kennebec Central. Restyled by Mike Pearsal into an 8 1/2 x 11 format with 240 pages, this book now has new photos, additional text, and a brand new four-color dust jacket.
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The Somerset Railroad was born of the dream to link the Maine coast with Canadian businesses and was begun in 1872. Though it never did realize the goal of linking Wiscasset with Quebec, for fifty-six years it carried people and goods from the northern woods around Moosehead Lake to southern Maine and New England. The Somerset trains brought trees down to the mills and hauled away the wood products. They opened new markets for Maine farmers and canneries. Twice they carried young men off to war, and the trains carried mail, and wares of every kind, and people too, visitors and vacationers who - until the trains cames - endured long uncomfortable carriage rides, or just stayed home.
In The Old Somerset Railroad, retired professor Walter Macdougall traces the history of this narrow-guage line, its development and construction, and the ways the lives of people living along the tracks became interwoven with the railroad. Using period photographs, Macdougall weaves a colorful and fascinating account of an unforgettable part of Maine's history.
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Tweetsie Country can be roughly defined as being bound on the north by the Great Depression, on the east by the state of North Carolina, on the west by Tennessee, and on the south by hope and determination. The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad was born in this Blue Ridge Mountain country more than a century ago. In the 1880s it was called the ?Stemwinder,? and later, the ?Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes.? But it was the children (who rode the swaying cars to numerous summer camps) who christened it with the name that lasted: Tweetsie!
Here is all the color and charm of the Tweetsie, with its broad gauge aspirations on a narrow gauge budget. It is the story of a unique little railroad that travelled the Blue Ridge country and won the hearts of those who lived there.
This handsome pictorial history includes 250 outstanding photographs, plus maps, scale drawings, and three full-color paintings by Mike Pearsall and Casey Holtzinger.
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Tweetsie: The Blue Ridge Stemwinder Author: Julian Scheer, Elizabeth McD Black, Lee Kolbe (Illustrator), Elizabeth M. Black Publisher: Overmountain Press; 2nd edition edition (January 1, 1991)
Tweetsie, officially the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), was the first railroad to cross the Blue Ridge. She opened up mountain country which had previously known only isolation and remoteness.
Tweetsie made her last scheduled run in 1950. Then, in 1956, the people of North Carolina and Tennessee, and lovers of railroad lore everywhere, were filled with excitement when the gallant train was rescued from oblivion and began operating over three miles of track at Blowing Rock, North Carolina. ?Tweetsie?s back!? were words repeated thousands of times in the Blue Ridge.
The authors claim that they have written, not a history, but ?a song to Tweetsie.? Here is history nevertheless?and legend?and a loving look at the mountains and their people. It is a delightful story of the best loved of all the doughty little narrow gauges?Tweetsie?the little engine that could, and still does!
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