Here's the close up. Notice how well the ROW is maintained. Someone with a syth has kept the bushes cut back and the telegraph poles are straight & true. The guy who listed this on Ebay sez: "... number 282 is one of Maine Central's very distinctive 4-6-0 express locomotives. These locomotives had a peculiar narrow apperance because they employed piston valves angled far inward so that they could be driven by Stephenson valve gear." /DL

Photographed by Unknown, 1910.
Added to the photo archive by David Larrabee, January 17, 2004.
Railroad: Maine Central.

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