A Local Freight Locomotive

Atlantic Shore Line Railway 100 (Biddeford - Kittery ME) and Portland-Lewiston Morrison Hill Station (ME) at Seashore Trolley Museum

In 1906, the Atlantic Shore Line ordered three freight locomotives (Nos. 100 ? 102) of wood construction from Laconia Car Co. About 1908, the ASL converted No. 101 to a box express car and enlarged No. 102, while No. 100 remained as built. Like most electric lines, the ASL?s primary traffic was passengers, but the company also developed a freight business. The ASL interchanged carload freight with the Boston & Maine Railroad at Springvale, Kennebunk and West Kennebunk, ME. Beginning in 1915, the Atlantic Shore also interchanged freight with the Biddeford & Saco electric line at Biddeford. Freight included inbound shipments of coal and outbound shipments of timber products. One source of freight was cordwood harvested along the present Seashore right-of-way and hauled by No. 100 or No. 102 from the present Trolley Museum site to the Kennebunk interchange. In early years, the railroad also received coal from barges and schooners at Cape Porpoise, ME. Nos. 100 and 102 continued in service for York Utilities at Sanford until trolley freight service ended in 1949.