The storm of Tuesday night and Wednesday forenoon resulted in adding another white coverlid to nature’s bed to the depth of fifteen inches of damp, heavy snow. Had the snow been as light as that of its immediate predecessor, it would have been about twice that depth. On the railroad the snow-plow, driven by two engines, had all it could do to clear the track; while on the town roads, break-out teams with a roller, etc., had a good sized job to render the highways passable.

~ Printed in the March 17th, 1893 issue of the Bridgton News.

The new passenger station at Bridgton Junction, build jointly by the Maine Central and the Bridgton Road, is nearly completed. It is a daisy. Capacious and comfortable, with platform capacity for several hundred excursionists, it is also elegantly finished, and is one of the prettiest stations on the Maine Central line. Figure-atively, yet strictly speaking, the building is 17×47 feet, with a 10-foot roof projection; a 400 foot platform, of which 367 feet is covered. Its cost is somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000.

~ Printed by the Bridgton News on March 3rd, 1893.

Throughout the storm the trains on the Bridgton railroad, though more or less delayed, succeeded in making their regular trips. The snow train was promptly put in operation, a crew of shovelers was secured, and the road kept open. It was feared by the public that the train might at any moment be “hung up” en route, but the B. & S. R. R. is a spunky young fellow.

~ Published by the Bridgton News on February 24, 1893.

Two hours before daylight Wednesday morning Supt. Bennett, with a force of “sappers and miners” were on their way to Bridgton Junction in the snow train. No special obstruction, however, was caused by the snow-fall. Arrived back at this terminus, the train men and snow crew were treated to a substantial collation ordered from The Cumberland.

~ Published February, 17, 1893 by the Bridgton News.

The last of the apples have been shipped from this terminus by the railroad; and the whole amount sent from this place and vicinity over the road foots up the handsome number of 7830 barrels.

The Nova Scotia gentlemen who lately visited this town and other places where the two-foot-gauge railroad is used, reported so favorably upon this system of road that the work of building the 90-mile one from Halifax along the coast, on the Mansfield plan, has already begun. A shorter road of the same kind is being built in North Carolinal; the outcome of an article on the Bridgton road in several of the big newspapers and subsequent correspondence with the officers of our road.

~ Take from the Bridgton News, Jan 13, 1893.

A PROJECT TO CONNECT BRIDGTON AND HARRISON WITH A ROAD WHICH WILL CARRY BOTH FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.

For some weeks past Portland parties together with prominent citizens of Harrison and Bridgton have been considering the building of an electric road from Bridgton to Harrison, for both freight and passenger service and also for furnishing light and power to those two places. So enthusiastically was the project received by the people of the two towns and also of Waterford and surrounding place, that a superior water power has been looked up and the option of it secured, and a petition for a charter will soon be circulated for presentation to the legislature. It appears that the large lumber and farming country around Harrison, Waterford, and South Waterford has no outlet for its products except by team to Norway, on the Grand Trunk railroad, or to Bridgton on the Bridgton & Saco River railroad. It is proposed to construct an electric road of the same gauge as that now running from Bridgton to Bridgton Junction, so that cars can be loaded at Harrison and taken to the Maine Central railroad at Bridgton Junction without change.

Eventually the road will be extended to Waterford and Waterford Flat. Not only will freight be handled extensively but arrangements will be made for the accommodation of a large passenger traffic.

Parties who have traveled through this section know that few places in Maine offer greater attractions to the tourist and health seeker, and already several beautiful summer residences have been built here by Portland people. The writer learned that Mr. P. Tolman of Harrison was in town yesterday on business connected with the proposed road. It is rumored that the Giant Electric Company of this city is largely interested in the enterprise, and will equip both the road and electric light plant. –Press of Wednesday.

~ The Bridgton News, Jan 13, 1893.

Thursday evening of last week [01 Dec, 1892 – RU] there arrived in this village a notable party of gentlemen, bound on a peculiar mission. The cicerone of the party was one whom the Bridgton public have cause to long remember, and with gratitude too, for but for his system of railroad our town would have been to this day without steam communication with the outside world–Mr. George E. Mansfield, the originator of the two-foot-gauge system of road, and who filled so important a part in putting our road into being. With him were five prominent citizens of Nova Scotia, from Yarmouth and vicinity, men of brains and character and best representing the various elements, of public office, (in the Canadian Parliament, &c) of business interests, and the professionals, in that section. They were: A. M. Hatfield of Yarmouth, J. E. Lloyd of Lockport, W. Sargent of Barrington, E. L. Simmons of Lusket, Yarmouth, and Joseph R. Wyman of the latter-named city. Their object in coming here was this: It is proposed to build a narrow-gauge railroad from Yarmouth eastward to Rockport, a distance of very nearly 100 miles, following the general coast-line and taking in the chief maritime points, as well as striking the interior traffic; and so these five leading citizens came as a committee to Maine, to study the Mansfield system, with a view of constructing the road on that plan if deemed suitable and economical. Hearing of Mr. Mansfield, who is now a resident of Greenfield, N. H., they engaged him to accompany them on a tour of observation over the different two-foot-roads in this State, they made our road the final scene of their investigations, coming and returning over it. At the Bridgton House they held and informal conference and talk with officers of the road, engineer Marcque and other of our citizens and took copious notes. They were a fine body of men, and the interview was mutually satisfactory and pleasing to all concerned. They one and all expressed entire satisfaction with our system of road, nay more, were enthusiastic over its construction and workings, and went away next morning with the resolve to report to their constituency in favor of this style of railway.

~ Printed in the Bridgton News, 09 Dec, 1892.