This past weekend, Friday - Monday (Oct 5-8) the WW&F Railway Museum hosted a tracklaying event. The goal of this weekend was to lay track to our newly rebuilt Humason Brook Trestle, 1100 feet away from the end of track.

I'm pleased to report that we not only reached the trestle, we blew past it. All told we laid a solid quarter-mile of new track, and have another 150 feet of ties and rail laid out. We reached the trestle on Sunday afternoon. The crew burst into applause when the first train rolled over it.

Somewhere around 50 volunteers showed up during the weekend. Most times the crew size was about 30 - 35. Volunteers from as far away as Alaska, Minnesota, and South Carolina showed up to help.

Monday afternoon we fired up our steam engine, #10, and carefully ran it out to the trestle for pictures.

All of us involved with planning this event are extremely pleased at what was accomplished. I'd like to thank everyone involved for the help.

Information on the event will be on the web page in a few days.

WW&F Railway Museum
jcpatten@lincoln.midcoast.com

Sounds quite successful! Keep it up and you folks will be drawing them in like the annual Chama events. Imagine if people who oversaw the dismal demise of the RR in 1933 could see it again...



bobyar2001@yahoo.com

I don't think the operators of the 1933 WW&F would recognize ballast, good ties, or in gauge track!

Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society
tstuy@eldcps.org

> Sounds quite successful! Keep it up and you
> folks will be drawing them in like the
> annual Chama events.

That's part of the plan :-) I'm terribly impressed by what the Friends of the C&T have accomplished with their week-long sessions. I'm hoping some day that the WW&F can have one or several week-long sessions a year, in which we build track. If we build a quarter mile at a pop, we can build a mile a year with four sessions.

Of course it's a lot of money for all the rail, ties, and stone. But I'm confident that in time we'll be able to do it.

WW&F Railway Museum
jcpatten@lincoln.midcoast.com

James et al,

I am a long time member of the WW&F and was planning to come back and see you all, but the WTC events put that on hold.

Now that you have about reached the next station, how much more right of way is available to build on? Are you going all the way to the Whitefield bridge site?

TM

ted_miles@NPS.gov

> Now that you have about reached the next
> station, how much more right of way is
> available to build on? Are you going all the
> way to the Whitefield bridge site?

There's three parcels of land we'd need an easement on north of Alna Center. Once we get past that we can get down the Mountain, over Rt 218, and halfway through Head Tide cut before running into problems. Beyond that point I don't know what the ownership situation is to the bridge site.

There's been no hard and fast decisions yet as to what we'll do once we get to Alna Center. The general consensus is we'll keep going north until we run into the highway or run out of land. There's no decisions either about going south toward Wiscasset, just "someday."

The idea of myself and a few of the other volunteers is once we get track to Head Tide and/or Wiscasset, we determine if the business will support an additional expansion north.

For those of you that don't know, the southern end of the line is at MP 4.7 (Sheepscot Station), Alna Center is at MP 6.3, and Head Tide is at MP 9.1. Current end of track is now at MP 5.8ish.

WW&F Railway Museum
jcpatten@lincoln.midcoast.com