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PHILLIPS IN APRIL


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The railroad property is still fairly sleepy in April. In fact, there is enough mud on our access road that a 4 wheel drive vehicle is often required. The photograph is a panorama of well over 180 degrees shot from the center of the turntable on April 15, 2009. In fact, the third roundhouse stall from the left aligns across the turntable with the lead track near the right edge of the image. Yes, that white stuff is snow! Temperature during the day was in the low 50's, at night the low 20's.

In the picture you see from the left:

Phillips Section House (1901 structure moved from across the river).
Blacksmith Shop - not a historic structure, we closed in a donated gazebo and turned it into a working blacksmith shop.
Siding with our work gondola, end dump car, and boxcar 86.
Our 8 stall roundhouse built on the foundations of the "Old Stone Fort." Stall #2 is open and you see the end of boxcar #59.
Between boxcar #121 and the roundhouse you can see a part of Reeds Section House. Oops, I mismatched the photos so you see a split image.
Maplewood Depot.
Brookville diesel switcher.
Excursion car #54 (orig. B&H boxcar #54, on lease from Maine Narrow Gauge Museum).
Excursion car #104 (orig. Edaville #104, on lease from Maine Narrow Gauge Museum).
Boxcar #73.
Boxcar #155.
Caboose #559 (built in Phillips in the 1980's).
And finally our own section house sitting behind our sawmill (bandsaw).

The photo shows the equipment sitting where it did all winter. These are the pieces we are currently unable to fit inside anywhere. The hope is that 2009 will see us finally erect a car barn that will hold 5 cars. The barn will be two tracks wide and 104 ft long inside. That means one track will hold any three pieces of freight equipment (i.e. up to 33 ft. each), or any two pieces of passenger equipment (up to 50 ft. each). That's right, two pieces of equipment still will be wanting for winter quarters. Why not a larger structure? Well, the costs get out of hand. We still don't have the money for the 2 track by 104 ft structure we are hoping to build this year (over $25,000 for materials). You eat the elephant one bite at a time, right? We figure to take a large bite now and perhaps add one or two more buildings to the property in the future. Two popular candidates are characitures of a Covered Depot and the Kingfield Car Shop (as a working shop). Time and money will tell!




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