For those of you who have not seen what scrappy New Englanders with a rail preservation bent have done, maybe you should check out this blog visit to Phillips ME. Starting in the 1970s with not much more than a dream, you have to say much has been accomplished.
http://howdidigetthisold.blogspot.com/2011/11/phillips-maine-and-sandy-river-narrow.html
More pictures:
http://photos.nerail.org/search/searchresults.modperl?SEARCHTYPE=SIMPLE&PAGE=1&BOOL=ALL&SEARCHSTRING=phillips%2C+maine
To remind folks of information provided on another thread earlier this summer, steam at the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes with ex-Monson #4 is at a critical point in the restoration process:
http://srrl-rr.org/news/money_troubles.htm
In regards to the other discussion happening at this time... it makes me happy to hear that this website might generate the interest to save Maine Central #470. There are a few other New England standard gauge preservation projects which might be added to the same group's agenda, if successful with starting project #1.