The only original Maine 2-foot locomotive that has a current FRA Form 4 is Monson Railroad #4. She's a 20-ton product of the Vulcan Iron Works and was built in 1918 for the Monson Railroad in Maine. She hauled slate over that 6-mile line until it closed in the mid 1940s and she was sent to the scrap heap. Fortunately, a man named Ellis Atwood rescued her (and several other 2-ft locos) and brought her to South Carver, Massachusetts. There, she hauled tourists for nearly 50 years at what became Edaville Railroad. Edaville went out of business in 1991 and a group of enterprising preservationists purchased #4 as well as the rest of the Edaville collection and repatriated the equipment to Portland, Maine. They formed the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and created an operating railway museum on the Portland waterfront. Today, #4 is the mainstay of the museum's steam train operations, running on key weekends from Memorial Day through the Christmas Holidays.
