PHOTOS BY KEN CHICK A little Maine in Michigan Modeling the two-foot Monson Railroad as HO standard gauge/Hank Tenwolde B
ack some 11 years ago, I was looking around for a new layout idea, but a fresh theme had eluded me for some time. While on va- cation in Florida I came across Two Feet to the Quarries, by Robert Jones. During the rest of that vacation I read and re-read that book, and the more I
The Monson Railroad was a Maine two-foot- er running six miles between Monson Jct. and Monson, Maine. The author has reinter- preted it in HO standard gauge. At the top, No. 8, a Vulcan duplex (from PFM), bumps its way across the bridge at Millbrook, then works nearby Portland Slate (right). The sec- ond active engine is No. 7, a two-truck Cli- max which also came from PFM years ago (far right). Some quarries, like the Hebron Pond Quarry (top right), have underground tunnels and only a narrow surface opening.
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