Re: New ramp track construction at the WW&F lots of pics

Thank you, Brian. Likewise, Ichabod Crane isn't merely a recent Halloween movie character but originated in Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820. It's one of the great works of 19th-century American fiction.

Also, for the record, the the Trout Brook Preserve where the WW&F bridge is located is definitely not a state wilderness area. Rather, it's the property of a local land trust, the Midcoast Conservancy. (I rather doubt that a railroad would be allowed to operate in a designated wilderness area.) At 126 acres it's not a huge piece of land, but it's a nice place for an afternoon hike: Midcoast Conservancy: Trout Brook Preserve

(Yes, the WW&F obtained permits for the bridge construction and ROW grading work from the Maine DEP and the US Army Corps of Engineers, but that's because the Trout Brook is a tributary of the Sheepscot River which is an ecologically sensitive waterway and important Atlantic Salmon habitat, and the railroad wanted to do everything correctly, not because it's located on state or federal land.)

-Philip Marshall