Climbing the hill to Freeport Station. Boothbay Railway Village's 4PM excursion, behind Henschel #6, climbs the little hill past the duck pond, en route to the Freeport Station, at the museum entrance. Although the museum's little loop barely covers 3/4 of a mile around the periphery of the village, it traverses a number of noticeable grades. In fact, it's a bit of roller coaster ride, heading distinctly downhill from the covered bridge just out of view on the right, bottoming out about where you see the open excursion car, and then climbing once again through the home stretch to Freeport Station. From Freeport to Thorndike Station, on the north side of the lot, it's pretty much a continuous uphill run. Incidentally, both stations are original Maine Central structures, moved here when the railroads retired them. In that sense, Boothbay Railway Village shares a common concept with Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, only on a much smaller scale.
