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If your interested I have MEC Employee Timetable #17 effective 1201Am Sunday April 30, 1939. Eastport Branch Stations: no scheduled trains listed in ETT (all trains run as extras): Eastbound Ayers Junction (MP 117.36 on Calais Branch) (MP 0) X,W,D Pembroke (MP 3.45) Perry (MP 8.69) Pleasant Point (MP 11.03) Quoddy (MP 13.06) Eastport (MP 15.71) X,W,D X= Yard limits W= Water Station D= Day Train order office Westward trains superior to Eastward Trains. Speed Restictions Maximum (Both directions) Passneger/Freight   30mph/20mph All Bridges (both directions)                             15mph/15mph Eastport: Middle, Key, High and Washington Streets  4mph/4mph   Heaviest Engines permitted: Class 60 Class 60 (O)359-390 Class 60 (K) 161-166 Class 45 (M) 246-248 Class 40 (N) 285 and 288 Class 35 (G) 114 Class 35 (H) 144-147 and 150 Reason for limitation: 60ft turtable at Eastport (per ETT largest engines permitted where small class O with short water tanks).    Tonnage rating by class (class 35 not listed on ETT in this section) Class 60: 600 Tons Class 45: 450 Tons Class 40: 400 Tons The class number correlating to the tonnage rating is a coincidence (example: class 40 is rated 1050 tons Bangor to Enfield). Special Instructions: All trains and engines in both directions must come to a full stop before crossing Middle, High, Key and Washington Streets, Eastport, and these crossings must be protected by a conductor or a brakeman while cars and engines are passing over them.  Speed not to exceed 4 miles per hour and stop to be made near enough to crossing so that engine or leading car is plainly visible to pedestrians or drivers of teams or automobiles approaching crossing from either direction.  This is to apply to switching as well as train movements. When switching or handling cars at Sea Street, Eastport, air brakes must be coupled and in use.  This rule to apply when handling cars between station and Sea Street.   The 4-4-0s and 4-6-0s you discussed in your original post where not listed due to being scrapped by April 1939, but I would not be suprised to find them listed in an earlier Employee Timetable. Also its your version of history, you can pretend they were scrapped later. If you want more info on scrap dates, you can check my above link (has some).  There might be some in the MEC mechanical department book.
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