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Description
The Portland Company built this narrow-gauge locomotive in 1892 for the Sandy River Railroad in Phillips.
The N.B. Beale, No. 5 is Portland shop number is 622. It is a two-foot gauge. It has 33-inch drivers and resemble the Hinckley engines from the shape of the cab roof.
The Portland Company bought engineering drawings and patterns from the Hinckley Co. of Boston when it went out of business.
About This Item
- Title: N.B. Beale No. 5, Portland Company, ca. 1892
- Creation Date: circa 1892
- Subject Date: circa 1892
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37, 37-90
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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- Locomotive industry--Maine--Portland
- Sandy River Railroad (Me.)--Equipment and supplies
- Railroad locomotives--Maine
- Locomotives--Maine
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Locomotive works--Maine--Portland
- N.B. Beale No. 5 (Locomotive)--Photographs
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