Fall Festival Fotos

[Ed Lecuyer]

All taken by my lovely bride, Michelle at the Fall Festival, Sept. 24, 2011:

James turns the railcar at Alna Center:



#10 waits while passengers board the Model AA truck for a hayride:



The noses of the two Fords meet at the crossing:



Stewart and Emily, waiting for another round of hayrides:



#10 runs around the train, while Steve Zuppa (in the top hat and coat) conducts a potato sack race at Alna Center:




A few more photos are posted on the NE Rail Photo Archive...
In the cab of #10, engineer Dana Deering keeps a watchful eye as #10 pulls out of Sheepscot station:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=193774

Railcar #4; Built by Leon Weeks for the WW&F Ry in 2010 hauling happy passengers at the fall festival:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=193773

One of Maine's beloved lilliputs, #10 prepares to depart Alna Center:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=193772

#10 Pulling Out of Alna Center; Check out the fireman's arm ringing the bell in the center of the cab door frame!
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=193771

#10 Waiting at Alna Center:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=193770

[Matthew Gustafson]

Awsome photos, makes me wish I was there.

[Tom Casper]

Ed, She did GOOD!

Tom C.

[Duncan Mackiewicz]

Ed,
Your wife has a great eye for pictures. Nice shots.
Duncan

[Ed Lecuyer]

Michelle thanks everyone for their kind words. Here are four more.

#10 resting in the sauna after a hard days work:



Fred fastens the chain on #10:



Feel and see the glow from the fire:



Dana's view from the cab:

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Michelle has also posted Fall Festival Fotos on nerail.org - go to search by railroad and choose W, the WW&F is at the bottom of the page. 

Talent runs in the family!

[Arttu Manninen]

Very nice! I love that spaciousness. Great little locomotive. One thing puzzles me "#10 rests in the sauna..." Round here, you don't meet locomotives in a sauna. Well, inside the preserved Toijala roundhouse near us, there is an old wooden sauna where the engineers washed themselves after work. Today, museum volunteers continue to do it, and afterwards you sit in front of the sauna in the shadow of museum's big 2-8-0.

[Ed Lecuyer]

With the engine still warm, and given the confines of the shop, an instant sauna is created whenever we put #10 away for the night. The physical effect was quite apparent when we went in to take the photo. (Actually, I went in to look at the trucks for the Turner Centre car, Michelle saw the photo op.)

[Arttu Manninen]

Allright, makes sense. Thanks.

[Dana Deering]

Great photos, Michelle!  I'm gald we had a talented photog there to record the event!  Look out, Stephen, you've got competition!   Don't forget you extra batteries next time