Reporting for duty on an icy morning in March is the WW&F Museum's newest power, Locomotive #9. Built in 1891 by Maine's famed Portland Company, she served on 4 of Maine's 2-foot railroads over a 40-year career, coming to the original WW&F just before it closed down, in 1933. Saved from the scrap heap by rail enthusiasts, she traveled to Connecticut and then spent the next 50 years in a barn on a family-owned farm. Over the past 10 years, the WW&F Museum has slowly been able to restore her to her former glory, and she operated for the first time in 83 years at the museum's Victorian Christmas event. She is seen here working to assemble a photo freight in the north yard at Sheepscot, in preparation for the museum's first public photo excursion, in March of 2016.
