Moonlight and kerosene. As darkness falls, members of the WW&F Ry steam crew check in at Sheepscot station, and prepare for the last run of the day to Alna Center. www.wwfry.org
Engineer Rick Sisson takes some happy passengers for a spin in the WW&F Ry Museum's newest piece of motive power -a home-built 2-foot gauge railcar. Built by restorer and craftsman Leon Weeks, the... (more)
With fireman and engineer comfortably seated for the long ride ahead, No 10 rolls south with a full head of steam, through the absolute darkness of rural Maine.
WW&F Ry No 10 simmers just outside bay one of the Sheepscot engine house, building steam for the day ahead. Although No 10 was originally built for the Underwood, Short & Reeves sugar plantation a... (more)
Looking west toward the setting sun on the Aurora sub in Chana, Illinois. A tiny midwestern town, Chana has no stores, no gas stations, amid miles of corn. I had stopped there looking for somethin... (more)