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Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington #30-4-4RT
Wiscasset ME Shops 2\' Ga
Portland #627 11/189410½x14\" 33\" 36,000#
New for Wiscassett & Quebec #3
to Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington #3, in 4/1901.
Scrapped about 1937.
WISCASSET, WATERVILLE & FARMINGTON
The Kennebec & Wiscasset Railroad was chartered April 15, 1854, to build a railroad from Wiscasset to Augusta via Togus. Nothing was built. On
February 14, 1873, the name was changed to the Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad with the objective of extending the road to Quebec. In 1892 a
survey was finally made with grading beginning in June 1894 and tracklaying in October 1894. The road was finally completed and opened to Albion
on November 4, 1895. The property was taken possession of by the mortgage trustee in October 1899.
The Waterville & Quebec went bankrupt on July 1, 1900. Receivers were appointed and the road reorganized as the Wiscasset, Waterville &
Farmington Railroad on February 5, 1901. The new corporation assumed control on March 29, 1901, The new company was unprofitable and was
put into receivership on October 7, 1905. Carson D. Peck bought the railroad at foreclosure sale on December 4, 1906, and reorganized it as the
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway on January 1, 1907.
The railroad again went bankrupt and receivers were appointed on November 30, 1930. In December 1930 Frank W. Winter bought control of the
railroad and restored it to bare profitability, enough so that the receivers were discharged without the company being reorganized. After a
roundhouse fire in 1931 that destroyed two locomotives the receivership was reestablished on December 31, 1931. Service was suspended on
June 15, 1933, after a derailment; the rails were removed in November 1934 and the remainder of the railroad scrapped in 1937.
REFERENCE
1. George W. Hilton, American Narrow Gauge Railroads, (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1990), p. 413-14.
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