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#3 & #4 History?
Pete "Cosmo" Barrington:
Ok, guess that's one for my "news" file. ;)
Steve Klare:
Matt,
Monson #3 and #4 are two of the great Maine Two Foot relics. If you want to understand the whole story you need to find the book "Maine Two Footers" by Lynwood Moody. It is not the most detailed of the books but it is well told by a man who actually saw them all. He also was there when they set up Edaville and lead the hunt for equipment to save.
It was my introduction to the two footers years ago.
James Patten:
--- Quote from: Steve Klare on January 28, 2009, 03:39:20 PM ---...you need to find the book "Maine Two Footers" by Linwood Moody...
--- End quote ---
...which we sell in our gift shop, both the original edition and the 1998 reprint edition, edited by veteran two-foot author Bob Jones.
Steve Klare:
Good Plan!:
Learn the Legend and support the WW&F too!
The Jones edition is nicer as far as photographs and layout, but then again the original Moody edition has Moody's own captions on the photos. There's something just plain traditional about the 1958 Moody book.
The important thing is there is a lot more to these lines than just the trains. There were two foot gauge lines all over the world and a lot of them operated trains a great deal like the Maine roads. What's special about our Two Footers is a great story of people struggling against the elements and the times they lived in and the hard work and ingenuity they brought to work every day.
Days that I feel like complaining because the coffee is a little cruddy at work I think of those guys out on a plow train for a couple of days at a time trying to push back a blizzard and I gain perspective pretty fast!
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