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Alna, Maine actually had at least three stations on the WW&F during the common-carrier era.
Sheepscot - which is the 1901 photo that Graham provided. It takes its name from the nearby (across the river) village of Sheepscot which is in the town of Newcastle. Sheepscot is now the main point of operations of the modern-era WW&F Railway. During the common-carrier era, Sheepscot was nothing more than a flag stop with a freight shed and stub spur. The Sheepscot station building (and freight shed) burned in the 1920s and was replaced with a repurposed tool shed. That tool shed survived, and now is on the WW&F museum grounds.
Alna Center - was located on Averill Road and close to a schoolhouse, a meeting house, and several farms. Averill Road was ultimately discontinued by the town of Alna and the station (and road) was later rebuilt by the modern-era WW&F. After common-carrier operations ceased, the station building itself was dragged a short distance into the woods, then used as a hunting camp before it ultimately collapsed. A small part of the interior wall of the original Alna Center station is on display in the reconstructed depot. There were no other facilities (siding or freight shed) at Alna Center during the common-carrier era.
Sheepscot, Alna Center, and now Trout Brook share a common station design.
Head Tide - The third station in Alna was in the village of Head Tide. This was the first manned agency station north of Wiscasset, and was a significant (by WW&F standards) structure. The Head Tide station site is within a mile of the current end of track at Trout Brook.
Some WW&F timetables also include a FOURTH station in Alna, simply called Alna. The position of the station indicated by mile post changes before it disappeared from the timetable. One timetable positioned it at Alna Center, another somewhere between Alna Center and Top of Mountain (which did not have a station, only a spur for doubling the hill.) As far as I know, no one has ever definitively located where "Alna" was, or if it even really existed.
The only other "station" in Alna is a report of a siding used for loading lumber, located somewhere between Sheepscot and Alna Center. No evidence of its exact location has been determined, as far as I am aware.
Ed Lecuyer
Trainmaster, WW&F Railway Museum
Help the WW&F Build Locomotive #11: [
build11.wwfry.org]
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