firms. Two SR&RL highway trucks began carrying express shipments on 8 July 1932, and no trains operated over any part of the railroad through the following winter. Dismantling After observing reliability of winter truck traffic over Maine State Route 16, the Lawrence Plywood Company petitioned the railroad to resume service from their Carrabasset mill to Farmington. Operations resumed on 17 April 1933, with sale of unused equipment as scrap to meet operating costs. Dismantling of the former P&R began during the summer of 1934, but service to Phillips was required to reach the railroad machine shops; so the receivers petitioned for abandonment when rail removal reached Phillips in April 1935. A scrap metal firm purchased the railroad at auction in May and service ended on 2 July 1935. Remaining rails were lifted for scrap metal in 1936. Revival In 1970 a group of local railfans at the Phillips Historical Society formed a project to document the SR&RL. This group eventually formed a separate non-profit organization, the "Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad", to preserve remaining equipment from the railroad. The non-profit continues to operate, as of 2019, a short heritage railroad on the trackbed of the original SR&RL at Phillips. Locomotives See also Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum Brecon Mountain Railway Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad - heritage operation in Phillips Notes References 1895–1914. External links Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad web site Defunct Maine railroads Heritage railroads in Maine Maine logging railroads Narrow gauge railroads in Maine 2 ft gauge railways in the United States Railway companies established in 1908 Railway companies disestablished in 1935 1908 establishments in Maine 1930s disestablishments in Maine Museums in Franklin County, Maine Railroad museums in Maine Phillips, Maine