Brackett Junction – Gray's Farm railway line
| Brackett Junction ME - Gray's Farm ME | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 11½ km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 610 mm ( 2 foot track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | SR&RL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway junction Brackett Grays Farm is a railway line in Maine ( United States ). It is around 11.5 kilometers long. The line was built in the gauge of two feet (610 mm) and is completely shut down.
After the Phillips – Rangeley line was opened by the Phillips and Rangeley Railroad in 1890, the desire arose to connect some logging camps on the southern arm of the Sandy River to the railway. For this reason, the Madrid Railroad was founded in 1902 . They built a line to Weld Township and the branch line from Brackett Junction to the northwest. The line went into operation on May 11, 1903, initially to Madrid . The management was incumbent on Phillips & Rangeley from the start. In 1908, the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad took over the railway, which in turn was owned by the Maine Central Railroad from 1911 to 1923 . In 1911 the route was extended by a further six kilometers to Gray's farm.
The main purpose of the route was to transport wood and transport the loggers to the respective camps. On July 8, 1932, the railway company stopped all operations on its route network. Some of the routes were reopened the following year, but the Madrid Railroad routes were not. The Brackett Junction – Gray's Farm railway was dismantled in 1934.
literature
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .