Sometime perhaps in the 40's or 50's my grandfather wrote a brief treatise on his railroad-related experiences, calling it "Notes by L. A. Toothaker," which I came across and have typed as a Word document. He was born and lived in Rangeley, Maine and later moved to Phillips, and elsewhere on the East Coast before moving to California; about the first half of the text is about the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, which of course was part of life around there, though he never worked for that road. (At least three others of my ancestors did, however, including his great-grandfather "Squire Abner" Toothaker, first president of the Sandy River.) The remainder referred to his time on the PE and I have made that into a separate document, attached herewith.
L. A. Toothaker Collection
Thomas Pollock Collection
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