Railroading is about time. And that means work can happen at any time. Locomotives need coal, water, fire and people to work. We can thank these folks for their work so that we may see wonders suc... (more)

Steamy Sheepscot Morning. A cloudy, chilly winter morning finds the visiting Monson Railroad #3 emitting tall plumes of steam as she heads for the upper yard at Sheepscot to coal up for the... (more)

Wiscasset after dark. A female passenger chats briefly with the Fireman on WW&F Locomotive #9 shortly after their late-evening arrival on the platform in the seacoast village of Wiscasset, ... (more)

Checking out the product. A Quality Control Inspector from the Turner Centre Creamery performs a quick visual inspection on a shipment of raw milk from a farm up north, as he meets his comp... (more)

Steam seems to defy gravity on a cold winters day, and on this 10 degree day in Alna, Maine it wafts about effortlessly. WW&F No 9 and short freight consist are seen departing Alna Center station ... (more)

Number 9 "blows her nose." The crew of WW&F #9 conducts a slightly unorthodox procedure to steam-clean their engine's smokebox. Engineman Rick Sisson (center) works the cleaning... (more)

Baby Boat

In 1975, the Maine Central went shopping for its first new power in nine years, and chose ten of GE’s U18B “baby boats”. With their unique 8-cylinder FDL engines, t... (more)

Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine was home to Alco switchers from home-road Portland Terminal, as well as from parents Maine Central and Boston & Maine. Here a Maine Central S4 idles near the yard off... (more)

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway #9 waits to take a spin on the turntable at Sheepscot yard during the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum's "A Maine Two Foot Wint... (more)

Monson Railroad no. 3 being steamed up for weekend photo charter duty at the WW&FRy. No. 3 is visiting the WW&FRy from the Maine Narrow Gauge Museum.

WW&FRy no. 9 and Monson Railroad no. 3 being steamed up for weekend photo charter duty at the WW&FRy.

Like so many Hinckley Branch chases in the past, the one from January 14, 2017 ended within sight of the home signals into Waterville Yard. Stepping off the bridge over Route 201/Upper Main Stree... (more)

WW&F #9 sits on the newly completed hand powered turntable the railroad volunteers engineered and built. This turntable allows the trains to be turned for the first time in the railroad's modern h... (more)

WW&F #9 is being moved in the yard after the "Maine Two-Foot Winter" event. The period correct truck is owned by the railroad and was staged for images.

Railroad staff members pose inside the visiting Monson #3 locomotive for the Saturday night photo session of the "Maine Two-Foot Winter".