Alna, ME: Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum Roundhouse

(Satellite, they already have a turntable)

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum posted six photos with the comment:

Engine House Project - Work on the east side / pit stall this week. Photos by C Stewart Rhine, see captions for details.

Big thank you to Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum for... see caption.

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum shared with the comment:

New wooden enginehouse going up at Maine's Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum.

Gary Smith: How much trackage in feet or miles?

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum: Gary Smith 3.5 miles of mainline track. Hundreds of feet of yard tracks and sidings.

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Much progress was made during the Fall Work Weekend including construction of the roof overhang with soffit panels. Also, one section of frieze board with tar paper was installed on the east side. See the next panels for news on track work.

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The track crew began laying track in the pit stall on Monday. Here, Dana Deering crops the turntable feed rail as Joe Fox watches from inside the pit. This view looks north.

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The rail stanchions were brought in by the track crane and set in place by the pit crew.

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The pit crew, led by Dan Malkowski (in the black hoodie) plotted the location of the 18 stanchions to be ready to accept rail which will be craned in by "Elmer" seen through the doorway.

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The next step was to begin setting the 80 pound rail sections. This view shows the first two sticks of rail set in the north end of the stall.
These rails were donated to the WW&F by the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum - Thanks!

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Afternoon rain ended Mondays work but not before the pit rails were connected to the house track. The support stanchions will be bolted to the pit floor and rail attached to the stanchions after the next pieces are set in place.
Kennebec, Penobscot & Northern HO scale railroad: One question? How will the rails be attached to the stanchions? Welded? Bolted? Other?
Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum: Kennebec, Penobscot & Northern HO scale railroad Bolted using track clips.

The WW&F Railway traces its roots to 1894 when the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad constructed a two-foot “narrow” gauge railroad northward from the bustling wharves of Wiscasset. Far short of its international delusions of grandeur, the railway of “big dreams and little wheels” only reached Albion, Maine....The WW&F served the businesses and residents of rural Maine until 1933. [Facebook]

I used a roadmap instead of a satellite image because the narrow track is kinda hidden by the tree canopy.

Map
[The faint grey line west of ME-218.]

The dotted red line shows Albion. Wiscasset is in the middle about a fourth of the way up from the bottom. It is along US-1. According to a 1948 topo map, Maine Central not only ran along the coast, it had a route up the Kennebec River just 10 miles west of the WW&F. And even though it went through a lot larger towns, it appears that river route also has not survived.

Satellite