Alfred Steam Engine : Portland Company Works, Portland, Maine (Albumen Photograph)

M.F. King

Portland & Rochester Railroad, 1880

Albumen photograph. Photo Dimensions: 25.57 cm x 44 cm. Image of two engineers in Alfred no. 2, in front of a station house. A few small chip off the margins. Under plastic on poster board. "The Portland Company in Portland, Maine built this steam locomotive in 1880 for the Portland & Rochester Railroad. It is of standard guage, has 61-inch drivers and is posed out on the main line." - Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 76.  This photograph is sightly bigger than the copy at the  Maine Historical Society, Collection: Portland Company records, Coll. 242, Box 37-45.