![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXiQR-ZshKvLjfKINTZJc1AYHYRUiJBhCR0lDW313j2v1wv-_JLjH9hzRoo-GD9Aka4nB67SnqeqTHlu2BASHZ5xFLauwG-qpPb_W4JINZHjjU0SUlnqCyUhxlMPmWJ_LvqaYva3eVzI/s640/Randolph+2+590.jpg) |
An overall view of Randolph, Maine. The coal unloading facility is seen in the foreground. The prototype railroad was only 5 miles long running from Randolph to Togus. The trains normally operated 4 times a day between the two locations. |
The Sn2 Crew has included on their modular layout a model of Randolph, Maine which is still under construction. These photos gives one an idea what the Kennebec Central Ry. looked like in town. Don and I stopped by Randolph on our way to the WW&F Ry but could not find any evidence of the railway were the yard once stood, but I did locate the stairway that lead from the roadway up above down to the station...George Dutka
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwaGOMOvQs2eQM_OZlvjBpjf3j_DUAGZhFtOee5eo81XHzb3iuy7s9h5NiVzgoQBX-C7Iizd8Y6VlNDbKUlv051KpWE0oimjdKJahFId_je3oNvAFJXLoxTii-0qyFSfNkHOWb-zb5lc/s640/Randolph+3+590.jpg) |
Operations were suspended abruptly on 29 June 1929 after the federal
government awarded the coal-haul contract to a trucking firm. The locomotives were closed up in the 2-stall Randolph enginehouse and the cars waited on sidings for 3 years. Then a December 1931 an enginehouse fire in Wiscasset damaged the locomotives of the nearby WW&F Ry.
The owner of the Wiscasset railroad bought the whole Kennebec Central
Railroad for less than it would have cost to repair a burned
locomotives. Kennebec Central engines #3 and #4 were trucked to Wiscasset, repainted, and renumbered 8 and 9. Some of the box car and passenger car bodies were sold as sheds, and the remainder floated down the Kennebec River during the 1936 flood. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzDm2OzP6LLSk4tz-krViRtrTd3JaCR6vpeTUQa5Vvth9ssqyU2k-TwQ9gQ4hjmPXyzHuX2HRv0YjNNhPS_7BV_fLQdsJGNzD1oSBBNXbPftblm2C4wILO-I97D6pYKXPbtACTMRcHmU/s640/Randolph+4+590.jpg) |
The Queen Ann style station was down along the river with a long staircase up to the roadway above which was near the covered bridge that passenger would use to cross the river to Gardner, Maine's MEC station. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMs6H5kdjcymsmVRthneuk9-x815d14IqYRZ6rOOfeYRiTWNf430jdYXuHK5UfnPMfv3IqFtx2xcjQ5sQrnndt64MO3WG6uvmsfHnQL9O_zLirzL9kKcoMk9iP-Xc-QVJVzmskBEEz8U/s640/Randolph+1+590.jpg) |
Another view of the yard layout. |