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John Kokas

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #120 on: May 08, 2014, 08:01:32 PM »
Mike, do you think you could talk your bosses into extending the grade a few miles eastbound?   ;)
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #121 on: May 14, 2014, 07:14:56 PM »
Well I was slightly off in my grade estimation. I am standing on the grade when I took the photo, and the grade goes slightly to the right, about in the direction of the rear tire on the bucket loader, and behind the cab of the grader. A nice broad grade was found in the woods.

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #122 on: March 08, 2017, 08:34:00 PM »
Looky what I uncovered!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two little comments,

I will post more later, but be patient please I have many irons in the fire.

The entirety will be put on google maps hopefully by the end of spring!!

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #123 on: March 08, 2017, 08:51:02 PM »
Nice, looking forward to seeing the contents thereof!

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #124 on: March 08, 2017, 09:16:20 PM »
Wow! Where did it come from?

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #125 on: March 08, 2017, 10:19:55 PM »
Looking forward to this - thanks for all the work you put into this, Paul - it's certainly appreciated!

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #126 on: March 08, 2017, 10:23:07 PM »
I love these things!!

I am going to keep the sources close to my chest for now until I have more information and a better presentation to put out there.  It took some searching though!!
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #127 on: March 09, 2017, 04:48:44 PM »
CAN'T wait to see this!

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #128 on: March 10, 2017, 07:27:22 PM »
IMG_4678 by Paul Levesque, on Flickr
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #129 on: March 10, 2017, 07:44:50 PM »
Oakland and Waterville RY Crossing the FSK

IMG_4620 by Paul Levesque, on Flickr
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #130 on: March 12, 2017, 06:52:20 AM »
The planned station facility at Waterville was remarkably subdued, wasn't it?  I wonder if they had any yard planned...

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« Reply #131 on: March 12, 2017, 02:05:54 PM »
Yup, it was.  There are no sidings drawn on the plan so it is just the preliminary survey.  I have to wonder if they would either have a freight interchange point where the FSK and MEC split just north of the station and passenger interchange would be handled by the streetcars, or if freight cars would be handled over the electric railway which was in the planning stages around the same time.

The path through Oakland is a little interesting too, which is forthcoming soon.  I am in NJ this week for work (I am located in central ME) so updates will be slow, and the plans I found are incomplete so I have to chase down a couple more leads to see if I can get the rest of them.  Also, I am inclined to believe that there is a rough sketch or description of the course from Western Ave in Waterville to the Kennebec River.  If you look at google earth the land west of Messalonskee Stream from at least Kennedy Memorial Drive (Routes 137/11) to the MEC / Messalonskee Stream crossing was mostly farm land and undeveloped until the 1930's-1950's.  The most significant buildings were probably located at the bridge over the stream on Western Avenue.
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #132 on: March 12, 2017, 04:56:27 PM »
HERE YOU GO!!

Part 1 of 2 for Kennebec County.

Let me know if you have problems viewing the map.

Some adjustments will need to be made on the west end of the map.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vXj0BK14ebll_6-gh3lfURBhBig&usp=sharing
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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #133 on: March 12, 2017, 09:04:42 PM »
It didn't seem to work for me. It brought me to google maps, but no FS&K...

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Re: The Franklin, Somerset & Kennebec Railway (FS&K)
« Reply #134 on: March 12, 2017, 09:17:04 PM »
It is working for me (using Chrome).  Wow, quite a deviation south to Oakland, but I'm sure that makes sense based on the terrain.  Very interesting stuff!

Thanks Paul for sharing this.
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