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The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway. The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset , Albion , and Winslow , but was abandoned in 1936.
Currently at the WW&F. 8 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-4-4 T Forney locomotive: 3/1924 57659 Sold to Ellis D. Atwood for use at the Edaville Railroad in 1941. Stored. awaiting cosmetic restoration at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum. 8 is the largest Maine 2 footer locomotive in existence, heavier than even the 2-6-2's on the SR&RL ...
Became Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad #6, preserved as WW&F #9 6 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-6-0 tender 1893 13733 Built as 2nd #2. Renumbered #6 in June 1905. Became Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad No. 18 7 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-6-0 tender 1892 12964 ex-Laurel River and Hot Springs Railroad; purchased in 1900 as 2nd #3.
ex-Franklin and Megantic Railway No. 2. Scrapped 1912. 5 Portland Company: 0-4-4 T Forney locomotive: 1890 616 ex-Sandy River Railroad No. 4. Scrapped 1919. 6 Portland Company: 0-4-4 T Forney locomotive: 1891 622 ex-Sandy River Railroad No. 5; sold to the Kennebec Central Railroad 1925; preserved as WW&F #9 7 Portland Company: 0-4-4 T Forney ...
A short ex-CNJ branch from Bridgeton to Seabrook was acquired later from the Jersey Southern Railway in 1987. [1] The W&W is exclusively a freight line with the majority of its freight supplied by the quarry of its parent company, Unimin, in Gore. In New Jersey, the W&W also serves Unimin sand interests and some grain traffic. [2]
The latter now serves as the base of operations for a heritage railway in town. [ 5 ] In 2024, The Alna Store, at the intersection of Dock Road and Alna Road ( Maine State Route 218 ), was voted by The New York Times one of America's Best Restaurants 2024.
WW&F No. 11: The Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway Museum is constructing No. 11, which is meant to be a replica of the original WW&F's No. 7. No. 7 was a Baldwin 28-ton 2-4-4T Forney locomotive (Baldwin classification 10-16 1/4 C-5a) which was scrapped in 1937 along with the rest of the railroad, being badly damaged in the 1931 ...
Operating out of the former Portland Company Marine Complex, the organization was founded in 1993 and continues to operate as of 2024.The collection consists of passenger and freight equipment, as well as artifacts from the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways that ran in the state of Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.