Quinn Campbell (2015), a senior at Thornton Academy in
Saco, ME, makes adjustments to the Narcissus CAD drawing created by him, in his drafting classroom, at the
Biddeford Regional Center for Technology - March 2, 2015
During the summer of 2014, I was hoping to find a high school student willing to take on the challenge of creating a CAD (Computer-aided design) drawing of the Narcissus. I had a specific design in mind. A CAD drawing was created in 1999 of Seashore Trolley Museum's first trolley, Car 31, from the Biddeford and Saco Railroad. That drawing was done as part of the Museum's 60th-anniversary celebration. The design is based on a drawing, which, when copied onto heavy paper, cut out, and folded properly, would make a 3-dimensional model. Used in a classroom of younger children, this trolley could be colored, people added into the image, riding in the car, being an operator, etc., before being cut out and folded, then taped together.
Above: A previous CAD drawing of Seashore Trolley Museum's very first acquisition.1900, Car 31 operated in the Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach, Maine area until coming to the Seashore Trolley Museum in July 1939. Car 31 is one of the Museum's ten Maine cars listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It also has the distinction of being a Save America's Treasure project.
Quinn used this 1999 CAD drawing by Trolley Museum member/volunteer Chet Bishop as reference material. He had created the Narcissus drawing.
There was a beautifully detailed drawing of the Arbutus in O. R. Cummings' 1956 publication, Portland Lewiston Interurban - A History of the Finest Electric Interurban Railway to run in the State of Maine. Portland Lewiston Interurban (PLI), No. 10, Arbutus, is a sister interurban car to the Narcissus and was part of the original order of four interurbans, built at the Laconia Car Company Works in 1912. One of the CAD drawing challenges would be to extract the details from the Arbutus drawing and then manipulate those details of the various components into the Car 31 format, to scale, for a Narcissus design.
The original drawing details are taken from O. R. Cummings '
Portland Lewiston Interurban - A History of the Finest Electric
Interurban Railway to run in the State of Maine. May 1956.
I was led by Edward Driscoll, the Engineering, Architecture, and Drafting Instructor at Biddeford Regional Center for Technology. Ed was very interested in the Narcissus CAD project and offered to present the project to his students. A few days later, in September or early October of 2014, Ed emailed me. He had a candidate. A student with an interest in taking on the project. Ed introduced me to Quinn Campbell. Quinn was a senior at Thornton Academy (TA), class of 2015, and would be entering the Engineering program at the University of Maine in Orono, ME, in the fall of 2015. Quinn and I met at the Thornton Academy during a school day and discussed the project. I handed him print copies and later emailed him electronic copies of the Car 31 CAD drawing and the Arbutus drawing.
Over the ensuing weeks and months, Quinn would check in with me via email, send me draft images, and seek clarification on certain details. During March 2015, Quinn had this great CAD drawing of the Narcissus. Thank you, Quinn!
Here is the text written in the CAD Drawing
Portland Lewiston Interurban No. 14 "Narcissus"
1912 Laconia Car Company.
In the Collection of the Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, since 1969.
August 18, 1914 - Colo. Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States
was a passenger on the Narcissus from
Lewiston, Maine, to Portland, Maine.
Original drawing details are taken from O. R. Cummings '
Portland Lewiston Interurban - A History of the Finest Electric Interurban Railway to run in the State of Maine. May 1956.
Adapted by Quinn Campbell, Engineering/Architecture/Drafting Class of 2015, Biddeford Regional Center of Technology
** Reproduced for the First Annual,
Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist, Nature, and the Narcissus (event, ed.)
8/2015 **
"I first heard of the trolley project from my drafting teacher at the beginning of the school year. At the time, I didn't realize how big a project it was. I started by making the template of the image that the Narcissus would be on. From there, I started tracing the existing lines of the identical trolley image I was given. There was a lot of detail in this drawing, and for this reason, it took me longer than expected. The project went into my robotics season. There, I also worked on designs for a robot for my school. However, after robotics ended, I had more time to work on this project, and I started adding more details that weren't in the original drawing but were on the Narcissus drawing. After approximately 100 hours of work, spread out over months, I was finally ready for it to be printed. Once I printed out a copy of the drawing, I showed it to Mr. Morse, and it went through a series of revisions until it was finally done. This project has helped me realize time management and how to balance multiple projects at the same time. What I liked about the project was seeing it all come together to form the final drawing."
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We continue the restoration work on the 1912 Narcissus, the only surviving high-speed, luxury interurban coach of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban.
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More than a century old, the stately "Elegant Ride," Narcissus, is a gem. This shimmering precious stone of Maine transportation history is brilliantly resplendent as it emanates so many elements of history, including time, places, people, and events, that it was coupled to, that when just a smattering of its seemingly innumerable stories are shared, the contents first captivate, fascinate, then generate interest to learn more 🙋. The majestic Narcissus is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Narcissus is featured in the national Gold Award-winning novel, Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride. The "Elegant Ride" is the Narcissus. Theodore Roosevelt was a passenger on the Narcissus on August 18, 1914, between Lewiston and Portland, Maine, while campaigning for the Progressive Party candidates.
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award-winning Maine author,
Jean M. Flahive
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