Now we're getting somewhere!
Unfortunately, this will be a one-time-only event, not something to do every year like the Picnic and Victorian Christmas.
Let's see TRAINS Magazine do an article on this historic event!!!
Has anyone done any research on the toilets in the original WW&F coaches? I assume they were the open hopper variety like the standard gauge units. I have a vivid memory of one of those. This is a true story -- you can't make up stuff this good.
Years ago when I was a volunteer on the Wolfeboro Railroad, we were using the old LO&S wooden motor car that had been leased from Strasburg RR. While waiting in the siding at Cotton Valley to meet the steam train, engineer Charlie Ruff and I were outside the car, while the conductor who's name I can't recall, remained inside. As we sat on the ground beside the car, Charlie spotted something on the rear truck that he decided to investigate. He was describing some sort of defect to me as we crawled under the car for a better look. As we were checking it out, we suddenly felt warm liquid running down on us from above. He looked at me and I looked at him with a, "what the frig?", look, when it suddenly dawned on us that we were beneath the hopper and being peed on by the conductor. We rolled out from under the car and stood up sputtering and swearing. Just then, the steam train passed us. We tried to brush ourselves off as best we could and got back on the car. The conductor was walking down the aisle. We had no passengers, so no one had seen what happened. We didn't say a word about it to the conductor and as far as I know he never realized what he had done. The remainder of the trip was uneventful. I've been p'd off many times before and since, but never p'd on.
Another "true tales of the rails" story to be filed in New England railroad history archives.
Richard