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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Mon May 12, 2003 8:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | WW&F flatcar |
Flatcar that was used to tear up the wiscassett, Waterville & Farmington in Maine is rebuilt to rebuild the railroad 70 years later. http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=200305120615153025.jpg&bydate%3A1 ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Mon May 12, 2003 11:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F flatcar |
> Flatcar that was used to tear up the > wiscassett, Waterville & Farmington in > Maine is rebuilt to rebuild the railroad 70 > years later. As the caption notes, now it's being used to bring the line back to life. I spent a good part of an October 2002 weekend shoveling ballast off of this very car onto the rebuilt WW&F, along with an intrepid team of co-shovelers..... They don't have a ballast hopper, and the side-dump cars are basically both dangerous to run and dangerous to dump (as in all-at-once one way or another), so...... lner4472@bcpl.net |
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