Some photos from today (Saturday, October 26th). Drove up from Massachusetts in some rain before dawn, but the weather was beautiful for mid-fall in New England today.
Early on, Fred Morse was busy cleaning scrap wood from the shop building, with assistance from Al Michelis. Scrap was loaded from the shop onto the John Deere tractor and brought over to Museum truck in our parking lot. Fred and Al would later move on to work on the
car barn extension.
Arriving at Alna Center for the
lot clearing for the pavilion, I saw that Randy Beach had completed repairs to Alna Center station. Based on damage Randy was finding when I left a week ago, I was expecting half of the trackside wall to be missing when I arrived today. Randy and Bob Holmes put in a lot of work to complete these repairs this past week.
Today was the last day of our 2019 regular season passenger service. The 10.30 a.m. train from Sheepscot passes by Alna Center around 10.39 a.m. Engineer Bill Piche looks backs for signals as Train #3 passes through the station.
Later in the day, Train #11, the last regular WW&F train for the 2019 season, is about to pass by flag stop Alna Center at 1.38 p.m.
Train #12, the last 2019 regular season return trip to Sheepscot from Top of Mountain, drifts in Alna Center station at 2.04 p.m.
Car host Dick Picard talks with our passengers as station business is completed at Alna Center.
