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Description
This photograph of the Monson Narrow Gauge Engine No. 3 was taken at the Monson Junctions railroad yard in Abbot Village. Number 3 Engine was made by the Vulcan Company in 1913 and weighted 34,700 pounds with a boiler capacity for coal of 1800. The engine was ordered in November of 1912 at a cost of $2,250.
This engine was capable of pulling four loaded cars.
In November of 1919 the engine house in Monson burned damaging both Engine 3 and 4. In 1943 embargo notices were sent out and the Monson Railroad was abandoned. Engine #3 was saved from the scrap heap and became the engine for the tourist railroad in Carver Massachusetts, retaining it's number 3 status.
When the Carver tourist railroad dissolved the engine was purchased by the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Portland Maine and continued to serve as a tourist train engine.
About This Item
- Title: The Monson Narrow Gauge Engine Number 3, ca. 1915
- Creator: Monson Historical Society
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Monson, Piscataquis County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.1 cm x 17.1 cm
- Local Code: MHS-111-003
- Object Type: Image
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- Locomotives--Maine--Monson
- Monson Railroad Company--Photographs
- Railroads--Maine--Monson
- Monson Railroad Company--Employees
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Monson Historical SocietyPO Box 308, Monson, ME 04464
(207) 876-3073
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