Description: Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington #4 wreck 9-12-1905 (B)#4 Train accident Friday Morning, 9-12-1905 at Alna, Maine 4 0-4-4RT Porter 2497 3/1902 11x16 33 47000 New. WISCASSET, WATERVILLE & FARMINGTON The Kennebec & Wiscasset Railroad was chartered April 15, 1854, to build a railroad from Wiscasset to Augusta via Togus. Nothing was built. On February 14, 1873, the name was changed to the Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad with the objective of extending the road to Quebec. In 1892 a survey was finally made with grading beginning in June 1894 and tracklaying in October 1894. The road was finally completed and opened to Albion on November 4, 1895. The property was taken possession of by the mortgage trustee in October 1899. The Waterville & Quebec went bankrupt on July 1, 1900. Receivers were appointed and the road reorganized as the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railroad on February 5, 1901. The new corporation assumed control on March 29, 1901, The new company was unprofitable and was put into receivership on October 7, 1905. Carson D. Peck bought the railroad at foreclosure sale on December 4, 1906, and reorganized it as the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway on January 1, 1907. The railroad again went bankrupt and receivers were appointed on November 30, 1930. In December 1930 Frank W. Winter bought control of the railroad and restored it to bare profitability, enough so that the receivers were discharged without the company being reorganized. After a roundhouse fire in 1931 that destroyed two locomotives the receivership was reestablished on December 31, 1931. Service was suspended on June 15, 1933, after a derailment; the rails were removed in November 1934 and the remainder of the railroad scrapped in 1937. REFERENCE 1. George W. Hilton, American Narrow Gauge Railroads, (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1990), p. 413-14. 2 NEW 5X8 FULL FRAME PHOTO FROM ORIGINAL 616 NEGATIVE I COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ORDERS. JUST WAIT FOR MY INVOICE. I do 5x8 because it fits best for the 616 and 122 size negative formats without cropping.The TAPLINES RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY watermark will not be on the finished photographs. I always ship with tracking and with cardboard photo mailers. If you would like a DIFFERENT size print, just let me know. Or if you need just one or two of the photos listed I can list them as a separate listing. I can make 5X7 or 5X8 ($3 each) 8x10 ($6 each), 11x14 ($12 each) and 13x19 ($24 each print). I will then list it as a special buy it now just for you.I can also do special requests, mix and match the photos as needed. All photos are printed by myself on ULTRA PRO GLOSS Paper on a Canon Proo-100 printer. All prints are made fresh when ordered. I've been photographing, collecting and printing railroad steam locomotive negatives since 1984!UltraPro is a resin coated, from any inkjet printer, including ones that use pigment inks. Prints will have bright, bold colors and ultra sharp details and bright white papers like UltraPro are particularly good at reproducing deep blacks and higher contrast. Your black & white photos will be neutral and crisp. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter
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