The railroad crossed over the northwest arm of Chamberlain Lake where it reaches toward Allagash Lake. The most significant structure of this operation was the fifteen hundred foot long railroad trestle sturdy enough to carry both the train and its regular supply of heavy log cargo across this piece of water.

2025年3月13日 · The Allagash Wilderness is home to several abandoned railroads that tell the story of Maine's logging heyday. These railroads, now overgrown and forgotten by many, are waiting to be rediscovered. Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad. This railroad was built in the early 20th century to transport logs from the Allagash region to the Penobscot River.

Aerial photographs from 1966 show that only two structures remained at Tramway when the Allagash Wilderness Waterway was created. A fire in 1969 destroyed the remaining buildings. Today, only parts of the Tramway still exist, including the large sprocket wheel, boilers, and scattered pieces of trucks, clamps, and track.

The Androscoggin & Western Maine (formerly Allagash Railway) Group is devoted to Mike Confalone's proto- freelance HO scale Androscoggin & Western Maine model railroad. "The Androscoggin" is based in west- central Maine in the early spring of 1988. The railroad occupies a 58' x 24' space (basement and garage) in our New Hampshire home.

2024年6月25日 · In 1926, this railroad connected Eagle Lake with the west branch of the Penobscot River, and the site is proof of the booming economy that was a major part of Maine history. When the UMPI vans reached the Allagash Wilderness Waterway area after a long three-hour drive along dirt roads, the 12 passengers made their way with a 45 minute hike ...

2024年12月15日 · The scene takes place on Mike Confalone’s proto-freelanced HO scale model railroad. Mike Confalone’s Allagash Railway: Part 1. Railroading is an activity that captures the imagination. Often this propels us into model railroading in an effort to create in miniature the aspects of the full-size operations we find most captivating, whether it ...

2020年11月8日 · The railroad operated only a few years in a location so remote the steam locomotives were never scrapped and remain exposed to the elements. ... Pulpwood harvested in the upper Allagash River drainage was destined for Great Northern Paper Company paper mill on the West Branch Penobscot River in Millinocket. The problem was getting the pulpwood ...

The railroad worked well, hauling 6,500 cords of pulpwood a week. (To see a video of a ride on the Eagle Lake & West Branch RR in 1966, click here .) By 1933 the Great Depression had depressed demand for newsprint, so the Great Northern abandoned the Allagash, the railroad, the rolling stock and the ghost locomotives.

The Allagash, which has captured the imaginations of countless model railroad enthusiasts, was transitioning into a new identity as the Androscoggin & Western Maine Railroad (A&WM). The Allagash Railway’s history began in 2009 and spanned multiple eras, from its independent operations (1977–1980) to its absorption by Guilford in the mid ...

2016年7月12日 · Members of the Allagash Alliance worked to right and stabilize Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad Locomotive Number 1 and its Tender. Built in June 1897 at Schenectady Locomotive Works (4-6-0 stamped #4552), it was originally a steam locomotive that burned coal but later converted to burn oil to eliminate the forest fire threat caused by cinders.