Some more photos from yesterday, June 19th:
New overhead crane in shop bay 1 (as mentioned in Steve Lennox' June 17th post above).

and the replacement cranes over shop bay 3.

Brendan Barry unloaded old pressure treated wooden highway guard posts recently delivered by Maine Locomotive & Machine Works. The posts will be cut down for use as ties.

A framed view of No. 9 taking on water, as seen from the north end of Franklin & Megantic No. 2. A five-car train was run most of the day for the public, consisting of (north-to-south) WW&F flatcar No. 118 (with benches), F&M No. 2 (courtesy of ML&MW), MLWM open car No. 130, WW&F coach No. 8 and WW&F caboose No. 320.

Our "Railroader’s Cookout and Farmstand Express" event was focused on Top of Mountain, where the public enjoyed SeaLyon Farm's farm stand, a cookout by Grandpa’s Kitchen Specialty Smoked Meats, horse-drawn wagon rides provided by Linda and Jay Verney, and old-fashioned lawn games.


Busy, warm day yesterday. Beyond the public event at ToM, we hosted a private event at Alna Center and a cub scout campout a little ways down along the Mountain Extension. 79 passengers on the first train north at 11 a.m., and for the 3 p.m. round trip, there were 70 aboard when we returned to Sheepscot. Trains in between were also busy.