Strictly a lumber road about IV2 miles long, it was aban- 

 doned in the early 1890's when lumber became scarce in that 

 region. The Lion and a similar but slightly older Hinkley 

 locomotive, the Tiger, fell into disuse, and were subsequently 

 sold as junk to Thomas Towle of Portland. What happened 

 to the Tiger is today not known, but quite probably it was 

 broken up for scrap. 



Alderman E. E. Rounds of Portland succeeded in raising 

 funds to acquire the Lion for exhibition in the Fourth of July 

 parade held in Portland in 1898. It then remained in Port- 

 land on city property until 1905 when, through the efforts of 

 Alderman Rounds, the President and alumni of the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, and friends of the University, it was shipped 

 to the University to be preserved as a museum piece. Once 

 on the campus it was stored in various places and received 

 little attention, until it was moved in 1929 to the then newly 

 completed Crosby Mechanical Laboratory. 



As the result of a study made in the fall of 1929, some 

 missing parts of the Lion were replaced, and it was restored to 

 the point where it can now be operated on compressed air. 



Figure 57 . — L/on, built in 1 846 by Holmes Hinkley of Boston, as it appeared in 

 what is probably the Portland, Maine, junkyard from which it was rescued in 

 1898. 



