With her Brakeman standing watch on the catwalk of a box car, a WW&F work train backs toward a track construction site deep in the Maine woods about 1915. In reality, this photo is 95 years youn... (more)

Engineer Dana Deering and the day's fireman James Patten, roll into Alna Center after cresting the steepest hill on the WW&F -known as "the ladder."

Railroading the old fashioned way. After spending most of the day hauling sold-out passenger trains, the crew of WW&F Forney #10 re-assembles her photo freight in the yard at Alna Center. ... (more)

The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum's photo freight makes a morning run-by for assembled photographers to kick off their Annual Picnic event. The freight left early in the morni... (more)

Few steam tourist lines enjoy beautiful waterfront views along their entire length. Such is the case with the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum. The line's 1.5 mile track follows the ol... (more)

Spring steam! on the WW&F Ry -- No 10 with a two car photo freight consist, crosses Humason Brook Trestle heading for Sheepscot Mills. This last minute addition to the Easter event schedule took p... (more)

It's 1910 and Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 0-4-4T 10 slows for the station stop at Alna Center. The handful of passengers aboard coach 3, still lettered for the Wiscasset & Quebec, which was... (more)

Merry Christmas from snowy Alna, Maine! Each year, on the Saturday before Christmas, the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum hosts an event called "Victorian Christmas" to t... (more)

With the early fall sunlight fading fast, a 2-foot gauge Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington passenger train whistles for the crossing at Alna Center Station. Prior to 1901, the Wiscasset, Waterv... (more)

In the early 1900s, Maine's 2-foot railroads represented the only link to the outside world for many rural communities. Facilities, equipment and procedures were decidedly unsophisticated. The... (more)

A local freight from Albion hauls the mail south through the Maine woods toward Wiscasset about 1920. Unlike most such scenes, this one didn't come from Grandpa's dusty attic. It's a real-life,... (more)

In the early 1900s, Maine's 2-foot railroads were expanding their lines to serve more and more rural communities. Here, a WW&F Forney engine switches a flat-load of railroad ties in Sheepscot Ya... (more)

The littlest pan. With the sun back out after a midday shower, a mad scramble was made to get some more runbys in before the sun set. The open field just north of the Alna Center station an... (more)

Busy night in the Maine woods. Alna Center is a hub of activity this evening as a crew unloads a boxcar from a northbound freight while the conductor looks on from the caboose. On the adjac... (more)

In a classic scene, a WW&F railroad crew synchronize watches prior to a pre-dawn departure from Sheepscot Station in Alna, Maine.