Re: Postcard From Maine 63, Extra # 9 at Trout Brook Bridge on the WW&F Railway..

Nice photo, Stewart. It was great to see you today - my first time back at the WW&F in more than a year!

Mike Fox has posted a nice short video of the return trip immediately following your photo, with No. 9 shoving the train from Trout Brook back up to Top of the Mountain. It was a short consist, just the open car plus combine 8, but she was really working hard on the 3% grade.




Youtube: WW&F 2021 Directors Special

The first 1:25 or so is looking back toward the engine, with engineer Joe Fox leaning out of the cab. Then it swings around to look upgrade with glimpses of Ed Lecuyer on the front platform of the combine and conductor Bob Cavanaugh in the middle passing signals back to the engine. (Incidentally, I was sitting next to Mike as he was making the video, so there's also a view of me from the shoulders down in the navy and purple plaid shirt and khakis at 1:27.)

-Philip Marshall