A little fall color at Trout Brook. A little fall color is in evidence as Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Locomotive #9 charges through the boxed pony truss bridge over Trout Brook as it begins its 3.5 mile, southbound journey from Trout Brook Station back to Sheepscot, in the town of Alna, ME.
The bridge seen here is the most prominent piece of infrastructure on what is now the WW&F Museum's "Mountain Extension." It crosses a brook which was the single biggest obstacle to the museum reaching its goal of running all the way from Sheepscot (near MP 4) to where the original railway historically crossed Maine Route 218 (near MP 8). This bridge, which was donated to the museum, was originally built for and used on the standard gauge Boston & Maine Railroad in Gorham, ME, so it is significantly wider than the museum's 24" gauge trains. It is far more stout than the one which existed here on the original WW&F. This is also the site of the famous "Mason's Wreck" of 1905, in which a southbound locomotive jumped the track, taking a couple of cars with it as it plummeted into the brook below, on the right side of the photo. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt in that wreck.
