Boothbay Railway Village’s S.D. Warren 0-4-0T No. 2 will be under steam on Sept. 8 for a day-long celebration marking the completion of its recent restoration. A brief ceremony will be held at the museum at 10:45 a.m. and then starting at 11 a.m. the locomotive will lead excursions around the museum’s loop of track every hour until 4 p.m. A museum volunteer will present an illustrated talk about the locomotive and its restoration.
While enthusiasts have heard of Maine’s five famous 2-foot gauge common-carrier roads, fewer know about the industrial railroad built to serve the S.D. Warren Paper Mill Co. in Westbrook, just west of Portland. Originally using horse-drawn cars on narrow gauge rails, the paper company purchased three 0-4-0T locomotives in 1895 from the Baldwin Locomotive Works to move materials around the plant. The locomotives were used by the paper mill until the 1940s.
