Re: WW&F – the Fine Art series (photos)

mfmalk Wrote:
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> It amazes me that before 1989 (when the WW&F
> Railway Museum was established) no trackwork and
> structures existed; yet all looks to have been
> intact since the original railroad operated.
> The spirit and drive of the Maine 2-Footers has
> never been more alive – thanks to the incredibly
> magical efforts by the men and women based in
> Sheepscot.


Well said, Matthew!

I visited the museum site for the first time in the summer of 1990 when I was 14 years old, and can attest that there was absolutely nothing there at that time. It was literally just a clearing in the woods filled with waist-high goldenrod on the side of Cross Road, with no obvious sign that a railroad had ever been there. I was with my dad and brother, and my dad found it amusingly eccentric that Harry Percival insisted on giving the address as "Sheepscot Station". Harry had a vision in his mind of what had once been, and what would be there again someday, and that vision has been realized to an amazing degree.

-Philip Marshall