, Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum

SHEEPSCOT STATION, ALNA, MAINE 04535-0242

May/June 1996

Sporting its new bell, W. W. & F. engine No. 9 poses outside the enginehouse for the first time on May 4, I 996,

with a crew of Museum volunteers. Left to right: Rick Bourdon, Bruce Wilson, Zack Wyllie, John Bradbury, Keith

Tayler, Harry Percival, Frank Paul and Jim Patten (in cab), Larson Powell photo.

Progress On All Fronts by Larson M. Powell, President

One of the most fascinating and exciting aspects of

watching the growth of the Museum in the past few years is to see how the completion of each single project opens the way to many other possibilities and activities that were not feasible before.

For example, on Saturday, April 27th, a crew of

volunteers completed the installation of an original W.W. & F, switchstand at the switch leading from the Museum's main

line to the enginehouse. This switchstand at one time was used in the Wiscasset yards of the W.W. & F. and had been stored at the Ramsdell farm in Connecticut along with engine Number 9 since the mid-1930s.

Until this stand was installed at Sheepscot, the switch had to be “thrown” by removing and then reinstalling a set of clamps—a tedious process that will now be eliminated. Furthermore, the use of this original piece of equipment adds

one more touch of authenticity to our effort to recreate the W.W. & F. as closely as possible.

Unfortunately, this is the only such original switchstand in our possession and the Board is now investigating the cost and feasibility of having 4-5 reproductions made for later use in the Sheepscot yards.

One week later-on May 4th-the final set of huge hinges was installed on the enginehouse doors on the rear of Bay

Number 3, which houses W.W. & F. engine No. 9, Zack

Wyllie and Harry Percival completed this job in the early morning and by noon, No. 9 had been rolled out into the sunshine to pose for photographs with its new bell in place.

This bell, incidentally, is an original Portland Company bell and was spotted on the front of a barn near Warren, Maine,

by Zack Wyllie, our vice president and resident antiques hunter. After prolonged negotiations with the bell’s owner, it

was purchased and then installed on the bell hanger atop the boiler of No. 9. It fit the bracket perfectly and in Brice Wilson's words, “it sounds a lot like the bell on Monson

Number 3." Incidentally, when No. 9 was pushed outside on May 4th,

it was the first time it had been completely outside the

enginehouse since it was moved to Maine form Connecticut in early 1995. A picture of the engine is shown above with eight of our Museum volunteers.

A great deal of work (and money) has been spent on the Sheepscot yards this spring. About 20 additional loads of gravel have been brought in to fill in the area behind the

| enginchouse where the siding from Bay No, 3 will be installed to connect with the main line and a substantial amount of stone ballast has also been delivered. An underground drainage system was installed which required many hours of hand- digging by volunteers on June [st and 8th,

Three more switches are also being fabricated for us and should be completed by late June, These will also be installed in the Sheepscot yard to hook up Bays | and 3 to the main line as well as to permit the construction of a siding that will run alongside the enginehouse across from the station.

On May 11th, a crew of volunteers including Zack Wyllie, Harry Percival, Bruce Wilson, John Bradbury, Jason

LaMontagne, Frank Paul and others spent the day raising the old W.W. & F. section house on a cribbing of railroad ties until it was high enough to permit the flatear to be moved under it on a stretch of temporary rails. (We described this

original structure in our last newsletter.) After hooking up our Brookville engine to the flatcar, the

building was then carefully moved about 200 feet down the main line with Bruce Wilson at the throttle and Harry Percival as flagman (inside the building, but leaning out the window).

By then, it was overcast and raining, but the building suffered

no damage and one week later it was moved off the flatcar and

onto its new wooden “foundation” just beyond the yard limit

switch. It will be carefully restored this summer.

Another major step forward was taken on June Ist when

the platform across the front of the freight shed was completed

by Zack Wyllie. This platform joins the existing platform in

front of the station and will now permit Museum visitors to

board trains more comfortably (when they begin running) and

to enter and exit the freight shed/Museum building without crossing a narrow catwalk that was previously in place from

the station. The freight shed, incidentally, has been fully painted in

primer by John Bradbury and now awaits its final coat of yellow and tan.

‘We have also reached an agreement for the purchase of 100

lengths of rail, as well as the donation of another 30 lengths,

which will permit us to extend the main line by 1950 feet.

This rail will have to be picked up and transported to the

Museum from northern Maine, hopefully in July, and when this is completed we will begin grading the roadbed in preparation for track-laying later this summer.

Meanwhile, thanks to the generosity of our long-time member, James Geier, we will have the use of the Model T

Sandy River railcar (formerly at Edaville) for most of the

summer. We plan to run this on a regular basis on weekends

for visitors and hope that donations from riders will help defray some of our growing expenses for expansion.

Other fund-raisers will include sales of merchandise with

the W.W, & F. logo at our station “gift shop” and of a new booklet prepared by curator Jim Bergmann showing walking tours and original track layouts at several key locations along

the old W.W, & F. right-of-way.

it works!! Testing the just-installed original W. W. & F. switchstand on April 27, 1996. Left to right: Zack Wyllie, Frank Paul, Jim Patten, Frank Menair and Harry Percival. Larson Powell photo.

Qur treasury, as you might imagine, has been heavily dented by all of these projects but | am happy to report that we recently received two separate—and unsolicited—gifts of $500

each from the Amherst Railway Society, Ambherst, Massachusetts, and from one of our members in Florida. We deeply appreciate both of these zilis, especially since they came at a time when our dues renewal season was going through its normal seasonal “lull.”

Our annual picnic on August 10th at the Museum will members to see the progress we have made in Sheepscot as well as the opportunity to talk with both new and old friends. All of us on the Board look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on that day and also on August 11th, when the Museum will be open and the Model T railear running.

Welcome — New Members

Annual Members Harry J. Downey - Bensalem, PA Nicholas Deeley - Fairbanks, AK Terry R, Beal - Jefferson, ME David E, Campbell - Elgin, IL Homer R. Hill - Bernardsville, NJ Albert A. Hammond - Bourne, MA

R.W. Cronquist - Ashtabula, OH John R. Connet - Naperville, IL Gerald O. Richards - Sioux Falls, 3D Jim Amato - Cincinnati, OH

Robert E. Buck - Erdenheim, P.A Michael A. Carter - Indianapolis, IN Neil Caswell - Canton, MA Charles FE. Wood - Boston, VA Peter M. Putnam - Orleans, MA Henry S. Tinkham - Portland, ME Charles C. Libby - Sandy Point, ME John L. Spelce - Martinez, CA

Warren L. Eldridge - Edgecomb, ME Wayne Daniels - Somerville, NJ Patrick F. Murphy - Avon, MA Gordon Davis - Alna, ME

Stuart C. Hemingway - Waldoboro, ME David C. Hilbert - Weymouth, MA Frederick Sutton - Hull, MA Ted Miles - San Francisco, CA David L. Graley - Lancaster, NY Maurice P, Foley - Kingston, MA

Life Members Donald H. Turner - Winthrop, ME James A. Auman - Warren, NJ Donald H, Funk - Edgewood, KY G, Baer Connard, Jr. - Falmouth, ME Benjamin D. Campbell - Arlington, MA Crosby & Charlotte Hodgman - Wiscasset, ME Walter Schmunk - Novelty, OH

1995 Fundraiser — Recent Contributors

Robert W. Richardson - Bellefonte, PA Pete Rasmussen - Middletown, NY

Edwin F. Hussa, Jr, - Wiscasset, ME

Fred Bergman - Alna, ME Charles Young - Waldoboro, ME

Team Track by Bruce Wilson

The Museum wishes to recognize George Cole of

Neweastle, Maine for allowing our member, Roscoe

Woodman, the use of his shop and machine tools. As you

may recall, Roscoe has been busy making new roller bearings

for our work cars and involved in fabricating missing parts for

engine No. 9. Of late, work has focused on the vacuum brake

valve, throttle and latch, reverse lever and quadrant and fitting a

bell to the locomotive’s bell cradle. We are grateful to both

men for their craftsmanship.

Ask Zack Wyllie to tell you the story about how he

located and was able to purchase a bell for the steam engine;

it’s a great story! The following members chipped in to pay

for the bell...Channing Morse, Jr., Jason LaMontagne, Bruce

& Linda Wilson, John Bradbury, Roscoe Woodman, Zack

Wyllie, Harry Percival and Rick Bourdon. Stephen Dimond of Middleton, MA spent a day working

on the railroad. He neatly stacked cut brush and logs to the

side of the northern right-of-way, while others including Ellis

Walker of Concord, MA, Harold Blen of Litchfield, ME, Fred

Morse of Bath, ME and Eric Larson of Boothbay, ME have helped the track crew lay the permanent rail into Bay 2 of the

engine house and move the section house to the yard limit.

The Two Foot Gauge Owners Association has announced an “Unofficial” 1996 Convention will be held August 16, 17 & 18 in Pennsylvania, Last year, the TFGOA charter bus called on several rail operations in Maine and proved very successful at building enthusiasm for Maine narrow gauge.

For a copy of the ‘96 convention itinerary please write to the

Museum in care of Bruce Wilson or call the events “unofficial” chairman, Todd Hunter at (717) 321-9165 for information.

Member Eric J. Bickleman of Pennsylvania has authored a

70-page, soft cover book on the Stewartstown Railroad. This

account of the 7.2 mile southem Pennsylvania line is available

through the Baltimore Chapter NRHS, c/o Paul Cockerham, 1136 Cleveland St., Baltimore, MD 21230 for $15.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Maryland residents should add 5% sales tax. A copy of the order form is available from the W.W. & F. Railway Museum on request.

New member Charles Libby of Sandy Point, Maine has written us with a reference to Ruby Crosby Wiggins’ book,

Albion on the Narrow Gauge. On page 14, Charles’ great- great-great grandfather, Ebenezer Libby, is reported to have

built the first barn in Albion-town raised without liquor; this in 1835! Charles also recalls a story told to him by his friend Ivan Sherman, who taught at the Besse High School in Albion

in the 1930s, “It seems that one morning some of the Besse High School boys showed up for school pretty well scratched up. The evening before, they took a handcar and started out down the line from Albion. Apparently it was quite dark as

they ran into a barbed wire fence that some farmer had strung across the right-of-way. Apparently the W. W. & F, hadn't run for a while and he just connected up a couple of lots separated by the railroad.” Charles also recalls traveling to a Boy Scout Jamboree in Augusta during June of 1937 and seeing the W. W, & F. rails being removed near the Route 17 crossing.

W.W. & F. Musing #26

by Ellis Walker Trying to find evidence and artifacts of a railroad that

stopped running in 1933 is a real test of our archaeological skills. Fortunately, W. W. & PF locomotive No. 9, boxcar 309 and flatear 118 were preserved and are now in Alna. The old Albion station is being restored by the Albion Historical

Society and other former W.W. & PF, buildings have been identified. Trips up the line have turned up old track spikes and even a switch frog, but it is difficult ta find much else that can be identified with the W.W. d& F. except traces of the Tight-of-way.

However, all of this is child’s play compared to the efforts of another group I belong to that is trying to find traces of a railroad whose last train ran 15 years before the W.W. & F, even started. The Billerica & Bedford R.R., which started the two-foot gauge era in the United States, opened in 1878 and was abandoned in 1879, The Friends of the Bedford Depot Park in Bedford, Massachusetts, are trying to establish a small park around the old Bedford railroad station. The station is

located at the end of a bike path which extends from Cambridge to Bedford over the right-of-way of the former Boston & Maine R.R.’s Lexington branch.

The Billerica & Bedford R.R. connected with a predecessor of the B & M at Bedford and ran to North Billerica where it connected with the Boston & Lowell R.R. A few years after the B & B was abandoned the Boston & Maine rebuilt the line

to standard gauge, effectively obliterating all traces of the narrow gauge except for a short stretch of right-of-way in Billerica where the B & M deviated from the original alignment. At least it was thought all traces of the B & B were gone until a little research turned up the fact the Boston & Maine had appropriated the Billerica & Bedford's two-stall enginehouse and converted it to the Bedford freighthouse. The amazing thing about this information is that the Bedford freighthouse still stands adjacent to the passenger station. It is now used as a bakery but its external dimensions are

unchanged from when “Ariel” and “Puck” made it their home, Fortunate are we that our ancestors recycled old buildings long before recycling became the “‘in” thing to do,

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On a somewhat different note, | would like to say that those of you who haven't taken part in the Saturday work sessions in Alna are missing a great time. I am not able to get down to Alna very often, but one day recently I joined 8 or 10 other members in trying to make myself useful. When I arrived the maintenance shed, which had masqueraded as Alna

station years ago, was being positioned in place at the north end of the yard, After the shed had been set on a temporary foundation adjacent to the track, we then put on our “gandy dancer” hats and started spreading ballast under the yard lead track. Harry Percival, operating a front-end loader, dumped

crushed rock at strategic points and the rest of us spread it between the ties in preparation for final lining and surfacing. Bruce Wilson made the observation that this was a little more

work than ballasting an HO gauge model railroad, but we all agreed that nothing beats working on the real thing.

The high point of the day came when the “Bay | Cafe” opened up with chef Bruce Wilson dispensing hot dogs and hamburgers from the grille. To assure a well balanced meal, Zack Wyllie's wife had made up a perfectly scrumptious pasta salad. If there was any left over it wasn’t my fault. I do have to admit that the black flies made things a little unpleasant at times. Some of the smart people like Jason LaMontagne wore mosquito netting but the rest of us just gritted our teeth.

Jim Bergmann came by and showed us a draft of a guide he is preparing for finding the W.W. & F right-of-way at various locations accessible by automobile. This will be a big help to anyone trying to trace out where the railroad ran. I also saw member John Bradbury hard at work priming the new freight house. Of course I couldn't leave before genuflecting before W.W. & BF, No. 9 and offering a prayer of thanks to William Moneypenny, Frank Ramsdell and his daughter Alice for preserving this perfect gem of a locomotive for posterity. With that 1 mounted my trusty steed (Plymouth Acclaim) and rode off into the sunset to Massachusetts and home.

Annual Meeting Results At the seventh annual meeting of the Museum on

Saturday, May 4th, all nine candidates for director were re-

elected for another one-year term, as were the four officers:

Larson Powell, President; Zack Wyllie, Vice President; Roger

Whitney, Clerk; and Richard Bourdon, Treasurer, Our

membership secretary, Bruce Wilson, has also agreed to serve

for another year. The proposed charter change was also approved by a wide

margin,

Items To Be Sold By Museum

Through the generosity of Dale King of Rhode Island, the Museum has approximately 1200+ paper items to sell. These include misc. pamphlets of which some of the titles are —“‘No. 15 Lima Locomotive and Machine Co, — Shay Geared and

Rod Locomotives,” “The Autobiography of an Engine by B & OR-R., 1927" and “101 Years of Railroading by NYC R.R., 1927,” plus eleven others,

Another group of 15 pamphlets are by the American

Locomotive Co, These are very specific categories with such titles as — “Pacific Type Locomotives,” “Rotary Snow Plows No. 10015" and “Mogul Type Freight Locomotives.”

The final group of 15 pamphlets are by the Baldwin

Locomotive Works, Again specific categories with such titles as — “No, 63, 1907 — record of recent Construction,” “No. 82, 1915 — Locomotives for Export’ and “No. 93, 1919 — War Industries,” There are also about 1,000 magazines from 1913 to the 1970s. Titles include — “Railroad Man’s Magazine,” “Trains” and “Railway Age.” Also included are 50+ periodicals by “The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society” from 1922 to 1952.

The Museum would like to sell these items as a lot to the highest bidder. If you are interested please contact Larson Powell by letter (include a SASE) at P.O. Box 4135, Portland, ME 04101, The Museum will notify everyone interested as to when these items will be sold,

Two-Foot Memories

by F. James Bergmann

In the January-February 1996 newsletter [ started an article about the “Eda Railroad Bogger,” which was published

between October, 1945 and March, 1947 by Ellis D, Atwood with Linwood W. Moody as Editor. The article that follows gives more information about the Maine two-foot equipment

that made irs way to South Carver, Mass., as reported: in this publication.

May and June, 1946, Vol. 2, Nos. § & 9, are missing. Let’s hope someone has a copy and is willing to share it with the Museum. However, Vol. 2, No. 10 (July, 1946) provides

us with some more insight into the Maine two-footers at Edaville. The next locomotives to arrive were described as, “two litth Vulcan steam pots” by the person writing the article. He further describes them as “midget engines” that “have fireboxes the size of a shoe, and weight only 18 tons, so it won't cost much to run them.” Their numbers are 3 & 4, These Vulcans began their careers on the “Two-By-Six” Monson Railroad in 1913 and 1919 and were sold to a Rochester, NY scrap dealer in 1944. Mr. Atwood learned about them a year later and “Letters were exchanged; prices quoted.” The New York Central sent ‘a gang of the best boiler and engine men west of Bermuda...and pronounced these two locomotives as being many moons from the junk pile yet,” The price was agreed upon and “the engines came back,” minus whistles, gauges and lubricators, to begin a new lite at Edayille until their return, almost fifty years later, to Maine.

August and September, Vol, 2, Nos, Il & 12, of the Bogger are missing. Vol. 2, No. 13 for October, 1946 was dubbed the “Anniversary Number.” There were no articles in this issue about rolling stock, but a historical perspective of the Billerica & Bedford R.R. and its importance to the “beginnings of the big system of 24-inch gaugers that fussed through the Maine woods for the next sixty-five years.”

In the next issue it was reported that “November marks the first anniversary of breaking ground for the last 2-foot gauge railroad in the U.S." Little did Richard Andrews know when he wrote this article in Vol, 2, No. 14 in November,

1946 that other two-foot railroads would rise again in Alna, Boothbay, Phillips and Portland, Maine.

The Xmas, 1946 issue did not devote any space to the rolling stock at Edaville.

As 1947 arrives, Edaville begins its third year with Vol, 3, No. 15 in an article called “TOOT! TOOT!” It tells us that “among the improvements in vogue is the 30-foot turntable brought down from Bridgton in November.” Tt then goes on to describe that “useful pieces of railroad equipment still come in™...such as “a locomotive whistle and vacuum gauge from Edgar Mead...”

February, 1947 brought no new news about the 2-foot equipment, but did carry the announcement about the “end of the BOGGER publication” after seventeen months.

However, Vol. 3, No. 18 was published in March and was called the “SO LONG” issue. There was an Editorial by Linwood M. Moody of Union, Maine which said in part, “Well, the BOGGER’s done. Yep: her last run.” There was

also an article called “SLIM GAUGE NOSTALGIA” about the narrow gauge in Maine and is printed here as it appeared 49 years ago.

“Some railroads they were, those narrow gauges. Folks used to grin about ‘em and say they belonged in the kiddicar class, but when you've lived with ‘em all your life and watched the little cusses doing a big railroading job, you feel different about it.

“In a way, though, they were different, a lot different.

There was more personality and unconventionality about them; they were so naive and guileless. Things happened on ‘em that just don’t occur on the busy, big roads, In their 60 years of life many of those informal incidents stand out.

“Take the time Ed West trigged all six of the No. 15's drivers, When Chris Boston climbed on and cracked her throttle she shivered a little, and sat right there. Puzzled, Chris widened on her, That time she moved — straight up; then crashed down into the ashpit! Ed hadn't figured on that.

“Imagine a wide gauge engine tipping over standing still.

No. 16 did. They'd stopped in the big curve by Madrid Tank to cool a hot box. All of a sudden, with no one near her, the litle Baldwin tipped slowly over and gently rested on her side against the bank! Why? They never figured it out.

“I’ve seen plenty of antics in the snow, but not one to equal (he 22 engine’s stunt on the No. 6 road, It was snowing. hard. The 30 ton Baldwin was making heavy weather of it. For an hour Fred Leavett hossed her back and forth, but gained

only a hundred yards. Finally, “We'll dig her out!" Fred snorted, They did. And there she was, out in a field, puffing around on frozen ground!

“Another thing you didn’t see on the big roads was a couple of brakemen push a boxcar around by hand.

“No. 10 was a high wheeled passenger engine. She rode like a cradle and could run like a deer. Dana Aldrich used to forget that as he and No. 10 clattered down from Rangeley with the famous “Express.” No. 10 was rolling so easy. Hardly seemed as if she was moving. Suddenly he'd be jarred loose from his reverie by Bob McMullen’s roar from the

bounding baggage-car. “Slow down.

popcorn!" “Dana hadn't realized he was dusting along at 50, “The people up there were different, too. One family, the

Hamlins, whose farm was beside the track, hadn’t missed

waving to a train in the 56 years the tiny trains had run. When the last one rumbled by, in 1935, the Hamlins’ back-

door was jammed — with four generations of ‘em waving a forlorn and tearful farewell!

“The narrow gauges were in a class by ‘“emselves, more ways than one. When they got the trim 24 in 1919 their Master Mechanic Caswell designed her. He specified her tank by 7 feet wide — eighty-four inches. However, his pencil slipped and he jotted it down 8-feet, 4-inches! So her tank was a foot-and-a-half too wide.

“They tried her out. When she rocked it made the water slosh in her tank: when the water sloshed she rocked the worse. One spring morning she was hauling a pulpwood train through Madrid Village; the tank began to slosh; then, just as she was clumping across the Madrid Village bridge, over it went! Well, the crash was tou much, and the baby caboose — bridge and all, landed in the stream. They narrowed her tank in Phillips Shop, and the 24 toddled through the years with no more upsets.

“Sure, the slim gauges upset things once in a while, but so what? Ever see newspaper pictures of a wide-gauge pile-up?

“They had so much the big standard roads didn’t have.

These cars are jumping around like

Still they were just about the same — parlor cars, railway post office cars, telegraph, and exuberant whistles that only those narow-pauge men knew how to blow.

“Those whistles: the most euphonious that ever blew,

rivaled only by the pipes of Pan. Their soft chimes were tuned to the wind in the spruces, but still they’d echo off Mt. Abrham like the scream of a lynx, and ring through the valleys with wild capricious melody.

“The last one has gone, those friendly slim gauges. Miles of winding grade marks their site. Lonely hills fret in their sleep, dreaming, maybe, of busy days gone by — and saucy

whistle calls. “That's all there’s left: the wrath of their smoke and a

haunting chime on a lonesome wind!"

I hope you have enjoyed the information recorded in these issues and hope some or all of the missing numbers still exist and may find their way to the W. W. & F. Railway Museum library. Please contact the Curator at (207) 586-5483 with any information.

Annual Picnic - August 10, 1996

The Museum's 6th Annual Picnic will be held on August

10, 1996 and we would like to ask our members to volunteer

to help on the many activities planned for the day.

By 9:00 A.M. a group of antique cars and trucks will begin to arrive and members will be needed to place them in their locations in front of the Museum. Other volunteers will be needed to direct traffic and help with parking.

We hope to have food and drinks available for lunch between 11:00 4.M. and 2:00 P.M.

The Ragtime Razcals of N.E. will begin to play music of the railroad era at 1:00 P.M, Help will be needed to solicit donations to cover their expenses.

We also expect a live steamer (miniature engine) to be in place, operated by our member, Keith Taylor.

Of course, the Model T section car on loan from Jim Geier will also be running that day with room for up to 6 passengers per trip.

It should be a lot of fun for all so please try to attend if you Can.

Drilling post holes for freight shed platform, May 18, 1996, Left to right: Kurt Jewett, Jim Bergmann, Zack Wyille, Brace Wilson photo.

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