Linwood W. Moody

Born in South Union, Maine, on July 17, 1905, he became a railroad station agent and developed a lifelong interest in railroad history, especially Maine’s narrow-gauge lines. Archival and local-history sources describe him as both a photographer and historian whose attention to detail made him an important recorder of a disappearing world.

Beginning in the 1930s, he documented Maine’s two-foot railroads through photographs, collecting, and writing. He contributed articles to Railroad Magazine and is especially remembered for The Maine Two-Footers (1959), along with Edaville Railroad: The Cranberry Belt. Later summaries of his work also credit him as an important early railroad photographer and note his connection to the preservation story around Edaville Railroad.

He died on July 13, 1983. Though not a widely known public figure, he left behind a lasting record of Maine railroad history, and collections of his photographs have helped later historians and enthusiasts revisit the people, equipment, and atmosphere of those remarkable small railways.