Item 80855 - The Narrow Gauge Engine Number 4, Monson, ca. 1930
- Item 80855 - The Narrow Gauge Engine Number 4, Monson, ca. 1930
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- Item 80855
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Image Info Albion Johnson is pictured here standing on the front of engine number 4 at Monson Junction Station in Abbot Village. Albion was the long time fireman/brakeman for the Monson Narrow Gauge Railroad.
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Engine number 4 was built by the Vulcan Company in 1918 and weighted 32,360 lb. and had a coal capacity of 1800. In 1943, along with Engine No. 3, it was taken to a scrape metal shop in New York before they were purchased and moved to the Edaville Railroad in Carver Massachusetts and was used as a tourist train.
