Maine Two Foot Railroads 

Boston born 1960 my parents brought me there when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory.

An immeasurable thanks to those cinematographs that went in the middle of nowhere in all weathers in a time where roads and transportations were in their "infancy". Now their tapes are like save for ever. Imagine them with today equipment !!

I remember an earlier version of this film - due to the sudden appearance of the Ffestiniog ! - but much more of it is totally new to me. Thank God for Ellis D Attwood, and for all his latter day disciples for keeping the Maine 2 footers alive. Just love them

Some Welsh narrow gauge footage was snuck in there taken around Porthmadog Wales. Nice to see it too.

Bridgton and Saco River No.7 just completed a successful test fire up on March 31st 2018. First time in 15 years it has been under steam.

If anyone is interested, here is a news story from the NBC affiliate in Portland Maine on one that is being run as a museum piece.

I visited the museum in Portland, ME and it was mind blowing.

I worked at Edaville for some time.#21was there flagship steam locomotive. My family and I was Edaville's guests for the 75th anniversary. Good times

Wonderful footage, thanks for sharing!

Great little history. Thank you for sharing it. Those swervy curvy fate paths strike again - this time, within a cranberry bog. We go in one direction for a thing or a place we have visions of, never knowing our real destination is the complete opposite of what we wanted ... and it is good!

@ 0:29,, slip coaches!!!!! lovely film. :)

Ellis D. Atwood is officially a legend!

Brilliant! Thanks very much. Great to have this footage available.

Wonderful, informative and entertaining video! Thank you UI.

they used to have cranberry ice cream at Edaville RR - boy, was that delicious!

Taking narrow gauge railways to whole new level!

This was a whole new world to run into. I thot 3'6" was the narrowest gauge.A#1

Many thanks for that wonderful historic video.And more thanks for that wonderful classical music you inserted.It was also nice to read about the Edaville railroad.I've known about it for 60 years but never saw the origins..

Amazing sound effects! Well done!

I loved seeing this! The B&SR ran across our property to a turntable at the Saco River where the engine was turned by hand to head back toward Bridgton. I love seeing the footage of it running. I'd sure like to find a copy of the book "Broke And Still Running" that was written about it to have here!

I think I'm hooked on narrow gauge steam more than standard they're even more rare. Besides they look and sound killer. Being the O gauge 3 rail nut that I am having damn near all but ya can't model narrow gauge properly. On30 is best to model a two foot gauge plus they make these kinds of locomotives you can buy. Anyhow great video I learned something new about 2 foot history being down southern Michigan.

Great Video, Thanks for Sharing !

This video is from a dvd set of steam trains. I have the disk. It shows everything. Theyre still operating today.

Terrific video!

So it's more up to one man that a 2' railroad survives in the USA. Were all locomotives that were preserved of the Forney type except for the one 2' Shay I know to exist in the US? Fortunately there are more 2' steam engines built by American companies that survived abroad. Last summer I visited the Brecon Mountain Railway in Wales in the UK, they run a wonderful restored Baldwin 4-6-2 tender engine which was originaly used at a cement factory in South Africa. Its sharp bark was unlike any other 2' locomotive in the UK, and apart from 2 other South African classes (NG15 2-8-2 and NGG16 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garrats) the largest to operate on the 2' in the UK. There are some other Baldwin engines surviving in the UK, these were some small 4-6-0 tanks and one standard gauge S-160 2-8-0, these were brought in during both world wars. Lastly there is a replica of wat was the first Baldwin bought by an UK railway, its a 2-4-2 tank named "Lyn" built by the Boston Lodge Works of the Ffestiniog Railway. They were a truly remarkable breed in a country where locomotives were generaly larger and heavier, but Maine surely had the atmosphere of the Ole England, including the trains.

The footage was used in Mark 1 videos production on Edaville and the main two-footers in general

I been to the w w and f such a cool little place to visit it feels like the strasburg railroad

Interesting - I've long loved the Maine 2 footers. This is fascinating film. Thank you very much. Er, so when did Portmadoc and Blaenau Ffestiniog become part of Maine?

the full length video which this upload is a clip of is "Massachusetts Maine Attraction" and was produced by Mark One Video and narrated by Jim Boyd, who I met at Edaville during the production of the video, and from whom I received a signed copy of the VHS cassette. The video was previously available here on youtube but has since been taken down, and, after several moves across the country, I can no longer find my copy of the VHS. I hope to replace it, someday ..

@2:16 Neat footage of the Ffestiniog Railway 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in early preservation days.

Tiny but mighty

I have walked and ridden on horseback miles of the old road bed left from the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington railroad.

Wow, i wish more of these small railroad lines were preserved. Over here in the states preservation for any old railroad equipment is much lower than in the U.K, especially the lines themselves. Unlike the U.K, we don't have special laws that allow some types of old locomotives to travel on the main lines of big companies, but i wish we did.

Excellent training; let's wax nostalgic. Cheers!

I like trains of all sizes.

Its Mark I Video if anyone was wondering the name of the company that made this film (I own it, I rate a 9.5/10!)

I've got a wooden train "B & H RR 1492" boiler/cab and open tender, six wheels and about 18 inches long... was told the wheels were added, this was mounted on a wall/post vertically, and used to store paper orders from a telegrapher/station agent... Seeing B & H on some of the locomotives in this video has me wondering. Any help on this? Thanks, John

4.45 Now that's what I call a cab!

In O scale a 2 foot gauge would have 1/2” between the rails. How tippy would that be?

I GOT TO BLOW THE WHISTLE ON AN EDAVILLE ENGINE!!!!

Why did the video cut while he was in mid story and still talking

Ive always wanted too see videos of the narrow gauge trains in maine.

What is this show called I remember watching it when I was younger

Hey there! Did you get permission to leave this video up?

Can you upload the official edaville Maine attraction video from mark please

A 2-4-4 forney

Was the sound added?

Please post the full documentary

I have a cat who can easily walk along the top rail of a fence. But that's no way to run a railroad!

Someone aught to build a model!!

I have a on30 locomotive

Did any locomotive survive or were they scrapped?