Kennebec Central Railroad

The Kennebec Central Railroad is a former railroad in Maine (United States). It was established on 3 October 1889 by some businessmen from Gardiner and built an 8 -kilometer-long railway line from Randolph to the National Soldiers 'Home, a veterans' hospital in Togus. The track width was 2 feet ( 610 mm). The official opening took place on July 7, 1890, 16 days later, the regular operation started. The route initially had no contact with other railroads, but from 1901 in Togus to the tram Augusta. In Randolph, there is also a road bridge over the Kennebec River from opposite Gardiner, where the Maine Central Railroad operated a railway line. The only intermediate station of the railway was located in Chelsea, engine shed and goods yard were in Randolph. At the terminus Togus there was a freight connection to the boiler house of the hospital. Renewals for only about 15 kilometers away range of operating in the same gauge Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway (WW & F ) were not on the planning stage.

In addition to connecting the hospital and general cargo and was transported from 1905 charcoal on the web. In fiscal year 1909/10 the company owned two locomotives, passenger carriages 4, a combined passenger and baggage cars and 13 freight cars (including 8 for transporting coal ). This year, the railway carried over 70,000 passengers. In the 1920s, they purchased from the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad two more locomotives ( Nos. 3 and 4 ). This allowed the two locomotives from the early days of 1922 ( # 1 VOLUNTEER ) or 1926 (No. 2) to be scrapped.

The company was financially successful during the whole period of its existence. However, after the coal transport had gone on the road and lost the ridership had fallen to about 20,000 per year, the company was set to the small train on 29 June 1929. The two locomotives were initially parked in Randolph. Shortly afterwards on the WW & F there was a Lokknappheit, bought the owner of this company, Frank Winter, the Kennebec Central Railroad. 1933, the two locomotives were transferred and perverted it for many months, until this line was shut down. One of the locomotives is still in the WW & F Museum in use. The rest of the rolling stock as well as some plants in Randolph were destroyed in 1936 by a flood. The railway line is still partially accessible, north of Chelsea yet are swamped.