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Description
"Here we see Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway locomotive No. 3 simmering beside the engine house. Originally built in Portland for the Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad as shop No. 627 in 1894, it was the next-to-last steam locomotive ever to be built by the Portland Company. Only two Portland locomotives are known to stil exist. One is a sister to the above engine, and one is a standard-gauge Canadian National Railroad engine and is at a museum in Ottowa."--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 37.
About This Item
- Title: Locomotive, Wiscasset engine house, 1931
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
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Locations:
- Wiscasset, Lincoln County, ME
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 22 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 29 2-11
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Iron industry and trade
- Locomotives--Maine--Wiscasset
- Metalworking industries--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)
- Railroad equipment industries--Maine--Portland
- Railroad locomotive industries--Maine--Portland
- Railroads--Maine--Wiscasset
- Steel industry and trade
- Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad
- Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway--Locomotives--Photographs
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