Bringing this beauty of a mikado back to steam wasn't like most restorations, as during its final days as Knox and Kane 58, there was a fire which torched the engine house, with both the 58 and stablemate Huntington and Broad Top Mountain Railroad 38 (a 2-8-0 of Baldwin heritage). California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) That story was of the creation of New Haven 3025.Brightline Trains LLC (formerly All Aboard Florida and Virgin).There were no turning facilities on the line, so use of the double-ender would have been much more convenient than the Eight Wheeler. Topographical maps of the area still show the entire right of way, including a branch which I presume may have gone to a quarry. The Knox and Kane Railroad’s contractor, Jefferson Paving, will remove the existing railroad crossings on two routes and replace them with bituminous material. I have seen a photo of an ancient GV 4-4-0, probably the railroad's original power.
You will have better luck looking the railroad up under its original name, Georges Valley.Īt one time, the railroad provided a regular passenger service connecting with all MEC trains at Warren. If I remember correctly, it is the June 1933 issue of Railroad Man's. One of Moody's photos of Knox 6, an ALCo 56-ton 2-6-2T, appears with the announcement of the line's abandonment. He wrote to Railroad Magazine about it a few times. The celebrated Maine railroad historian, Linwoody Moody, was a fireman on the Knox for a short while. No relation to the Hartwell GA operations. It was notable for having a cattle crossing across the right of way, the two gates of which had to be manually opened and closed by the brakeman - like some of the level crossings in Britain. And of the other two, isn't one that 2-8-0 from the Knox and Kane auction a few years ago That would be the Everett Railroad here in PA with B&H 2-6-0 11 and H&BT 2-8-0 38. The railroad was abandoned as a common carrier c1933, at which time it continued as an indiustrial line moving mostly limestone. The Knox Railroad was the successor to the Georges Valley Railroad, running about eight miles between Union ME and a junction with the Maine Central at Warren ME.
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