The railroad purchased a used 19-ton Portland Company Forney from the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad when their first engine wore out in 1922 and purchased another used 18-ton Portland Company Forney from the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad to replace their second engine in 1926. Operations were suspended abruptly on 29 June 1929 after the federal government awarded the coal-haul contract to a trucking firm. The locomotives were closed up in the two-stall Randolph enginehouse; and the cars waited on sidings for three years. Then a December 1931 enginehouse fire in Wiscasset damaged the locomotives of the nearby Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway. The owner of the Wiscasset railroad bought the whole Kennebec Central Railroad for less than it would have cost to repair his burned locomotives. Kennebec Central engines #3 and #4 were trucked to Wiscasset, repainted, and renumbered 8 and 9. Kennebec Central rails and car hardware became scrap metal. Some of the box car and passenger car bodies were sold as sheds, and the remainder floated down the Kennebec River in the 1936 flood. Locomotives Notes References Defunct Maine railroads Narrow gauge railroads in Maine American companies established in 1890 Railway companies established in 1890 1929 disestablishments in Maine 1890 establishments in Maine 2 ft gauge railways in the United States