The B-Section arrives. Motorman Stewart Rhine brings the B-Section of the WW&F's 3PM passenger train into the Sheepscot Yard, concluding a busy day of operations during the museum's Annual Picnic event.
On the busy summer weekends, the WW&F Museum supplements the normal, hourly steam-powered passenger train with the Model-T Railcar, giving museum patrons an opportunity to experience the line in a unique way. The steam train leaves on the hour, and the railcar departs 10 minutes behind. The railcar then pauses on the run-around track at Alna Center, as it waits for the passenger train to return from its northbound run to end-of-track. After passing each other at Alna Center, the railcar then takes its turn running to end-of-track, where riders get an opportunity to watch the motorman turn the car on its built-in turntable. The car then heads south to Sheepscot Station, arriving as you see it in this photo. Although the car travels at roughly the same speed as the train, the smaller size and stiffer suspension gives riders a greater sensation of speed. Patrons come away with a real appreciation for what track inspection crews, who used a car just like this one, would have experienced as they worked the 2-foot rail lines that wound through the woods of Maine nearly a century ago.
