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NANTUCKET RAILROAD

The Nantucket Railroad was a 3-foot gauge passenger line that ran for nine miles on the island of Nantucket. It opened in 1881 to serve visitors and closed in 1917. It was originally named the Nantucket Central.

DIONIS was built by Baldwin in 1881 and was scrapped in 1901.

Number 1 was purchased from the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn in 1901.

Number 1 was built by Hinkley in 1879 and served for twenty years on the Profile & Franconia Notch and two years on the BRB&L before coming to Nantucket.

Postcard showing Number 1 was mailed from Nantucket on September 3, 1907.

A photograph of Number 1 at her original home in New Hampshire - The Profile & Franconia Notch RR.

Number 2 was built by ALCO in 1910 and went to France when the railroad closed during the war.

Number 2 is portrayed on the postcard.

BUILDING THE CAPE COD CANAL

The construction engine is working for Belmont, Wilson & English during June 1913.

WINSLOW BROTHERS & SMITH CO.

Number 3 was built by Cooke in 1903. It is at the tannery yard at Endicott Street, Norwood, Mass.

The car was used to store Hemlock bark or to carry it to the grinding building at the tannery in Norwood.

BLAMBARD'S QUARRY

In service at the quarry in North Uxbridge, Mass. on May 15, 1934.

WORCESTER & SHREWSBURY

The three-foot gauge railroad carried passengers from the Worcester Union Station to Lake Quinsigamond about two miles away. The Pathfinder timetable for October1886 showed seventeen weekday trains to the Lake.

Number 4 was built by Hinkley in 1887. Worcester Union Station

Number 3 was built by Rhode Island in 1885. Worcester Union Station

LUDLOW MANUFACTURING CO.

Number 5 was photographed in Ludlow, Mass. on January 17, 1900.

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Switching the GE plant in Pittsfield, Mass.

EDAVILLE

Known as a tourist railroad, Edaville was built as an industrial railroad to serve the 1800 acre cranberry plantation of Ellis D. Atwood. Using 2-foot gauge locomotives and cars Atwood purchased in Maine starting in 1941, he built a 5 1/2 mile line in 1946 to help farm the cranberry bogs. Opened in 1947, the line soon began to attract riders and eventually became a well known tourist line preserving for many decades the remains of the extensive Maine 2-foot gauge railroads.