Clear! After shouting an audible warning, WW&F Engineer Rick Sisson opens the Engineer's side blow-down valve to clear #9's mud-ring of any built-up sediment. After three separate blow-dow... (more)

Switching moves at Alna Center. Through the cabin of a parked 1920 Dodge, we see WW&F #9 and crew preparing to pin the caboose back onto their freight after setting out a couple of loads in... (more)

WW&F #9 passes......WW&F #9. The newly restored WW&F Locomotive #9 runs light in the Sheepscot Yard, passing her former self. You heard right. The boiler that you see secured on the dec... (more)

Station Stop: Alna Center. A WW&F mixed train observes the red flag displayed at the tiny station in Alna Center, Maine and slows for a station stop to load locally produced milk, bound for... (more)

Living history. WW&F Engineer Robert "Bullet Bob" Longo poses with Engine #9 at the conclusion of the museum's March, 2016 photo excursion. The folks at the WW&F Museum take gre... (more)

The crown jewel. Safely tucked away in Bay 1 of the Sheepscot Shop Building is the crown jewel in the WW&F Museum's collection: Locomotive #9. An 1891 product of Maine's Portland Company,... (more)

Riding his magic carpet made of steam..... Engineer Robert "Bullet Bob" Longo and WW&F #9 appear to be riding a carpet of cottony steam as their freight train drifts downhill off ... (more)

Not much of a reflection shot today..... Although the calendar says it is technically spring, there's still a skim of ice on the pond just north of Davis Curve, and some snow here and there... (more)

Cockeye Curve. Drifting downgrade with the cylinder cocks open, WW&F #9 brings a short freight south through an S-curve that is referred to as "Cockeye Curve."

On November 15t... (more)

Classic 2-Foot Freight. WW&F Locomotive #9 displays the classic lines of a Maine 2-Foot Forney as she races south toward the tiny flag stop in Alna Center, just over 6 miles from her eventu... (more)

T.O.M. - Top of the Mountain. WW&F #9 runs around her freight on the newly constructed siding at Top of the Mountain. This location is summit of a 3% grade that was the steepest on the or... (more)

Crossing Humanson Brook. A mixed freight behind WW&F Locomotive #9 charges across Humanson Brook Trestle en route to Sheepscot Station and eventually, Wiscasset.

The only bridge on the ... (more)

Deep in the woods of Maine.... Deep in the icy Maine wilderness, a WW&F Mixed Train runs southbound just above Humanson Brook (left), about 6 miles from its destination, the coastal town of... (more)

One very historic consist. A WW&F Mixed Train makes a brief flag stop in the tiny hamlet of Alna Center, Maine on an icy, late March afternoon. Although this just looks like a train-wedge ... (more)

Flag Stop: Alna Center. Alna Center Station Agent Stephen Piwowarski watches intently as the crew of a WW&F mixed brings their train to a halt at the flag stop in Alna Center. Locally-prod... (more)