MOVING THE TRAIN TO EAGLE LAKE

Bar Harbor Times
April 25, 1946


The job of conveying the locomotive from Hamor's Wharf to the  foot of the Green Mountain Railway was undertaken yesterday.  The locomotive, which arrived on the schooner Stella Lee, is a weighty affair (the boiler and fire box weigh about five tons) and it took a team of 14 horses to start it up the avenue.  After getting it up between West and Cottage Streets it was decided to substitute wheels for "shoes" so operations came to a standstill, and were resumed today.

NOTE;  Once the locomotive reached the corners of Bridge Street and Cottage Street, it was also decided at that point to add two oxen to the 14 horses so the job of moving the train would go a bit faster.  Even then, the train moved at less than a mile a day with the hills along the Eagle Lake Road making the going even harder.

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