The Trains in Maine Run Mainly … on Two Foot Gauge Track

It was a long day yesterday, and we were too tired when we got back to even download pictures from our cameras! So, yesterday’s update is being posted this morning.

We returned to the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railroad Museum (see our visit from last year) to ride the train and meet up with some friends who we at the National Narrow Gauge Convention.

#10 is still in fine running shape, even after several days of running convention-goers back and forth over the line.

The museum members have opened up another 700ft of track since our last visit, with another 800 feet that should be ready to go next fall. What’s truly impressive about this is that all of the building and maintenance is done by volunteers, and, they’re doing it the old-fashioned way — by hand and sweat!

On the way back to Ba Haba, we decided to make a quick right turn and go to Pemaquid Point to see the lighthouse there, and to get some dinner.

It was pretty gloomy when we got there — the first “bad” weather we had this entire week — so we took a few pictures and went into the very funky “restaurant” one of our friends recommended to eat.

After dinner, Donna noticed that the sky was finally doing something interesting, so we decided to take a few more pictures before heading back to the B&B.

Heading back, we took a “short cut” along a road that I thought would be a more direct route back to “the main road.” It wasn’t so direct, instead running in part along the shoreline. What we found was one of those quintessential Maine harbors. You know, the ones you see pictures of in Yankee magazine. Unfortunately, it was dark, so we’ll have to save that spot for a future trip.

Today, we’re going to take Donna on her very first trip in a sail boat, meet up with some friends (for dinner?) and the come back and get ready to head for home tomorrow morning.