. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ENGINE, AND PARLOR CAR ONLY, PAUSES BY BOGSIDE time in Maine there were 208 miles of track, 40 midget locomotives, and more than 500 cars. "But the lumber business waned, agriculture limped, Maine manu- facturers moved west, trucks took what freight traffic was left. The little 24-inchers of Maine whistled out the last flag, pulled their fires and the bushes quickly sprang over the places where they were. "The Sandy River passed out 11 years ago; the Bridgton, ; "Then," still quoting Mr. Moody, "when
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ENGINE, AND PARLOR CAR ONLY, PAUSES BY BOGSIDE time in Maine there were 208 miles of track, 40 midget locomotives, and more than 500 cars. "But the lumber business waned, agriculture limped, Maine manu- facturers moved west, trucks took what freight traffic was left. The little 24-inchers of Maine whistled out the last flag, pulled their fires and the bushes quickly sprang over the places where they were. "The Sandy River passed out 11 years ago; the Bridgton, ; "Then," still quoting Mr. Moody, "when the Bridgton was gasping its last, Mr. Atwood came to Maine to get the narrow-gauge, to bring it back to its native state before the junkmen and blast-furnaces re- moved the last vestige of the 24- inchers from ; Fighting it out for most interest as concerns the equipment, will un- doubtedly be the Baldwin, No. 7, and the Rangeley parlor car. Mr. Moody describes No. 7 as a "squatty little kettle, only about 10 ft. to the top of her stack, laying low on the outside frames, the 7^/4 ft. wide cab perched high above it. The overhang is nearly 3 ft., half again the width of the track, but she looks very steady and substan- ; She is a modified type, built in 1913 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and has a 2-4-4 wheel arrangement, that is, there are two leading wheels, four driving wheels of 35 inch diameter, and four trailers. No. 7 weighs 66,500 lbs., burns soft coal, carrying a ton and a half, and takes 1,000 gals, of water in her tank. She came from the Bridgton line. The parlor-car "Rangeley" was built in 1901 by Jackson & Sharpe, now American Car & Foundry Co., Wilmington, Del., for the Sandy River. It has such luxuries as smoking compartment, observation section, hot-water heat, washroom, and carpeted floor, betasselled win- dows, mahogany inlaid woods, crystal mirrors, kerosene lights and individual, swivel seats, which if the pas
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