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Description
Monson, No. 1, loaded on a Maine Central flatcar in 1910 after being sent to the Portland Company. It was ready to be put back into service again.
The engine was built by the Hinckley Locomotive Works in Boston in 1881 for the Monson Slate Company and used to haul slate from the company to the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, later the Bangor and Aroostook.
It was a 24-inch gauge train.
About This Item
- Title: Monson No. 1, Portland, 1910
- Creation Date: 1910
- Subject Date: 1910
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Boston, Suffolk County, MA
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37 Folder 37/50
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Monson Slate Company (Me.)
- Hinckley Locomotive Works (Mass.)--Manufactures
- Maine Central Railroad Company
- Railroad locomotives--Maine--Photographs
- Railroad locomotive industry--Maine--Portland
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Railroad locomotive industry--Massachusetts--Boston
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Monson No. 1 (Locomotive)--Photographs
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