Stock certificates (approximately 140), pay tickets (approximately 60), timeslips (approximately 50), receipts, legal papers, and financial documents. The pay information has genealogical research value. Some of the pay stubs and tickets are made out to "Italian #102," etc., denoting employee designation based on nationality and ethnicity (See Box 2, folder 5, and Oversized folder). The collection contains cancelled common stock certificates from #4960-5200, Feb. 18-Nov. 19, 1920 (with some gaps). These stock certificates have Maine Central Railroad Company letterhead, and contains some other documentation.

Journal, blotter, and ledger. Includes miscellaneous statistics and data relating to personal injuries, freight traffic, fuel consumption, and other related railway subjects.

Stock ledger, lists of stockholders, dividend book, journals, ledgers, annual Interstate Commerce Commission reports, lease agreement (1883) with Maine Central Railroad Company, and miscellaneous papers.

Journals, ledgers, a cashbook, checkbooks, and voucher register.

Papers concerning the interest in the building of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban Railroad and its various phases.

Five hundred page "Record of discipline" book has manuscript entries, and name index. At top of each page is a section to fill in: "Record of," "Occupation," "Date entered service," and "Details". Usually includes action taken for discipline ("Reprimand").

The narrow gauge railroad arrived in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Based on the Welsh two-foot gauge, the American narrow gauge was expanded by railroad engineers to a three-foot gauge that became the standard track width for narrow gauge railroads in the United States. Maine, however, adopted the two-foot gauge that was developed by George E. Mansfield in Massachusetts. The narrow track width was ideally suited to the mountainous terrain, and the maneuverability of the trains proved highly beneficial to companies and passengers traveling to remote locations. The narrow gauge railroad served Maine for over fifty years until the early 1940s. Maine Narrow Gauge Railroads is a comprehensive pictorial record of the history of the narrow gauge railroad in Maine. From the one-hundred-twelve-mile Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad to the five-mile Kennebec Central, Maine Narrow Gauge Railroads features the toylike miniature trains of Maine as they appeared at different stages in their history. The Bridgton and Harrison Railroad, the Monson Railroad, and the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway lines are documented within, as well as the current restoration projects that are under way.