Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 0-4-4T, Maine

Locomotive number 2 built by the Portland Company in 1894 seen in 1931.

Maine’s Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington (WW&F) Railway was a two-foot (610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated from 1894 until 1933. The line ran from Wiscasset in the south, to Albion and Winslow in the north, never making it to either Waterville or Farmington. The Great Depression brought about the railroad’s scrapping in 1937.

The WW&F Railway Museum was founded in 1989 to restore and rebuild the original railroad. Since then it has restored 2.5 miles (4 km) of railroad, rebuilt several original railroad cars, and is restoring a steam locomotive. Today you can climb aboard a train for a ride back in time.  Steam trains will be run every weekend in July and August.

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