[1] By comparison with other logging roads of the day in the White Mountains, this was a small one, running only eight or so miles up the narrow valley of the Sawyer River above Bartlett at the south end of Crawford Notch.

The Saunders owned the vast old-growth forest in the Sawyer River valley, and had just founded the new village of Livermore with a large sawmill.

The railway never had a passenger car, but Livermore's residents would ride on the locomotive's slopeback tender.

The lone locomotive on the line suffered 33 derailments and repeatedly needed a new cab or a new tender.

The railway lasted a long time for a logging line, until a major flood destroyed all but 4 miles in 1927.