1. The W&Q does pay property taxes, our lease with them was originally set up (by contract) to essentially reimburse them for the right of way that we used. We are now negotiating our payment of their entire property tax burden with certain guarantees in return.
2. The short answer is "It depends". For instance Jayne's Way Xing was negotiated with the W&Q because they own the ROW there. However whenever the WW&F needs to lease ROW, the lease is in our name. There's also ROW that we own in Wiscasset, Alna, and Whitefield because the owners came to us and wanted to donate to a non-profit so that they could take the tax write-off.
3. Technically the W&Q owns the land under the shop building. The property line is in the middle of the coal pile, approx. 90 feet off the centerline of the track. Where the property line goes once we get past the NW corner of the shop nobody really knows (other than it works its way back to 33 feet of the centerline somewhere past the section house). West of that property line it's owned by the WW&F. Essentially when the house belonged to Harry, Harry would deed over land as appropriate to the W&Q.
4. I believe 118 is still owned by the W&Q. They originally owned Bay 1 of the car shop, but I think we bought that from them many years back. Why they still own the flatcar I don't know, other than they've never pushed us to buy it and we have other uses for the money.
5. In order to buy a share of W&Q stock, you can contact Les Fossel of Restoration Resources:
www.oldhouserestoration.com. Les is the W&Q treasurer. His email is under the "Contact Us" link.
