The crew at the WW&F Railway Museum has been busy. It started with a pair of Bridgton & Saco River box cars going from Maine Narrow Gauge Museum to the WW&F Railway Museum. The plan to keep the B&SR #57 and rebuild it, as they have the B&SR # 67.
The Maine Locomotive and Machine Works is a for-profit contractor which is near the WW&F mainline. The WW&F guys have now built a track connection to their shop building. The WW&F traded a B&SR flat car #50 to them for the B&SR #34 which is in pieces. They plan a complete rebuilding; which will do two things. first it will give them another flat car to deliver ballast to the new track and second in the longer term,
it will give them a flat car for the B&SR #22 tank car. That flat car rotted away; but the Maine Narrow Gauge Museum gave the WW&F the riveted iron tank about ten years ago.
I recently learned that the iron tank was built at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1873, most likely for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It arrived on the B&SR about 1915 and was painted for Standard Oil Company. They used it to deliver gasoline up the line. For pictures see the Facebook pages of the museum. Maine Narrow Gauge Museum still owns the other B&SR tank car; they were the only ones on the Maine Two-Footers.
Ted Miles, WW&F Member
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