Firing up and running Two Foot Gauge Steam Locomotives - Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railroad
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มี.ค. 2017
- The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railroad was a two-foot narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated from 1894 until 1933. The line ran from Wiscasset in the south, to Albion and Winslow in the north, never making it to either Waterville or Farmington. The Great Depression brought about the railroad’s scrapping in 1937.
The WW&F Railway Museum was founded in 1989 to restore and rebuild the original railroad. 2.5 miles of railroad have been rebuilt to date, plus original cars and a locomotive.
This video, shot in January of 2017 features beautiful winter railroading scenes of days gone by. Featuring WW&F locomotive #9 (former Sandy River and Rangley Lakes #5 and 6) and visiting locomotive #3 originally from the Monson Railroad. Both are 0-4-4 Forney type locomotives.
Highlights include the new turntable, double headers, a flying cut-off of a helper locomotive, yard switching, and more. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Oh Lord, I love it, The sights and sounds I grew up with~~I'm past 80 so that qualifies me !!
Why am I suddenly filled with the urge to buy a 20 thousand acre ranch and build a narrow-gauge railway on it?
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@NSResponder >>> I have had THAT IDEA for MANY YEARS!
However, I would settle for 20 - 100 acres...😊
If you do, can I come and be your indentured servant?
I rather have a full sized standard gauge steam railway. Just so I can go on the mainline if i so desired.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 😅😮😮😊😊١
This is outstanding. I got to run the UP 8444, now the 844 with John Kenefick, President of UPRR, standing behind me in 1984 in Wyoming. Was part of the team that pulled the UP3985 off the end of the Cheyenne Depot and started in its reconstruction. Watch both of them double headed. This is just something about steam. God bless!
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Love the sound of that steam generator starting up @ 1:23
Pity that's drowned out - by an idiot ringing that infernal bell..OM Lord - why have a whistle with that fitted, in fact why even bother listening to the valve gear and rush of steam - as it's drowned out - BY THAT INFERNAL BELL.. It ain't a school bell - so why ring the crap out of it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That steam Generator is actually called a Dynamo Generator that Steam locomotives Use to Generate Electricity for stuff like the Head light.
Bad ass little locomotive with attitude. It may be diminutive in size, but what she lacks in size, she more then makes up in coolness!!
Epic startup. Sounds like a F-104 Starfighter starting up. Just way too cool. What a star. What a great beautiful locomotive and God Bless the men and women who keep her going.........
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The steam generator puts me in mind of an F-4 Phantom starting up. Which is pretty darn cool. These locomotives, though diminutive in size, are amazingly powerful, nimble and quick. Which is great for getting into and out of tight spaces. I truly respect the men and women who keep these remarkable machines going. They're a testament to why preserving such railroad history is so very very important. The locomotive itself is absolutely stunning. Love the video very much.🚂🚂
I can't begin to express how much this stuff amazes me. This work is nothing short of incredible.
it is incredible, and in the next few years we hope to have another mile of track built, but that all depends on money. We have the rail on hand, now we just need the funds together to restore the railroad grade which will be almost a 1 mile long 3% grade.
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love the Maine two footers. such beautiful roads. especially loved the SRRL.
Beautiful sight to see with a steamer in winter.
Steam engines were a key milestone in the development of human civilization.
That is a very cool steam locomotive. Your lucky to be around one that works
He isn’t it’s called traveling and determination to youtube
WE LOVE STEAM TRAINS AND/OR STEAM LOCOMOTIVES SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!! :-D
I LOVE the sound of that dyno
Very nice! thanks for posting, Mike!
Awesome video! I like how you showed the crew cleaning #9's smokebox.
Love the Whistle action
outstanding engines and railway, forney's are just something else.
Beautiful work as usual, Mike! I must make it over to the Wiscasset someday. Not to far from where I am in NY.
Excellent videography! Probably the best I've seen so far on TH-cam. And hats off to the volunteers for a great restoration job!
Trains, boats, cars and other vehicles nowadays has no soul, just buttons and electric whine. Steam trains is like a living creature. I love it.
nicely done! this engine is beautiful and yet she produced a plethora of steam and smoke! Good job!
Wow, never seen a two wheeler stream engine. Great, love to own one. Thanks 🙏👍👍👍
Very nicely done!
This was so beautiful. Thank you
Stunning!!!! I love it!
Beautiful production!
I really appreciate the Monson style freight: flats on both sides of #3 with a round roofed passenger car! All it needed is some slate aboard the flats! When Moody and Crittenden were writing their books, they would never in a thousand years have guessed scenes like these would be in the future. Space travel and robots: sure. -Two foot gauge trains in the Sheepscot Valley, never again.
Beauty! Thank you!
Built by the Portland Company in 1891 in Portland Maine, locomotive 9 originally ran for the Sandy River Railroad as engine #5. It later operated on several different railways with different road numbers, such as SR&RL #6, Kennebec Central #4 in 1924, and as WW&F #9 in 1933. Acquired from the WW&F Railway in 1995 where it went through a twenty-year restoration, it returned to active service in the spring of 2016 where it now operates excursion trains for the railway.
Very nice sir, i didn't realize you were there that weekend, i am the one who is wearing the blue jean (raggy-ish) jacket, and i saw you but didn't know it was you until now, as always you put out excellent content, i hope to see you up here again in the future.
I hope to be back, that was a first reconnaissance. :)
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Great video mike, that railroad has some really great caretakers, I can tell by how the equipment runs, sounds - labor of love!
Good video, nice old truck.
Another great film!
Excellent video work , great crews, great looking equipment and probably the best video I have seen on the net.
A long time dream come true.
This is so Exciting, and I Love It a Lot! :-D
I road behind these engines when the were circling around those cranberry bogs in Connecticut and before that in that short lived amusement park in New York City as a kid back in the fifties. They now seem to be in their proper environment.
Some very good camera work watching it again
Outstanding (and artistic) camera work! You capture the essence of these Forney locomotives.
Never saw a Mike Massee video I didn't like! No exception her, for sure.. Great job. Course, doesn't hurt that I'm a WW&F fan!
Very enjoyable and the camera work excellent.
A great program enjoyed watching it top marks to the photographers
Wow... watching this video almost makes me feel like I've gone back in time to the height of the steam era.
Downunda Thunda The most magical feature of this railroad is its unique ability to take you back in time. Once you leave the station building, there is virtually no visual connection to the modern day. The wonderfull volunteers of the WW&F strive to make historic recreation charters each year.
Lovely video. Never got there at all in 2020....am really hoping to get back up there this year (2021). Amazes me to see they had the turntable back in 2017. Time flies.
Way cool!
The first passenger coach has the same original colors of the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad trains in Chicago which was the first L line in Chicago in 1892.
Wonderful video. Beautiful Black baby steam engine. Kindly look after by staff. Lovely landscapes and steam engine train.Thanks .
11:16like that sound
That steam genorator would do my head in after an hour XD
Wow 🔥
This was a truly perfect re-enactment, everyone is in era dress and trains not full of modern dressed tourists.
Didn't know this line before but it's absolutely one of the two footers outside the UK worth to visit.
What I noticed is altough the locomotives and freight cars have the same gabarit or loading gauge as the larger of the British or the South African 2', but the passenger cars look enormous for this gauge, they may be similar with those used on the 3' in size.
The size of those combined with the fact that a Forney can not negotiate very tight curves limited the radius of those, and the real advantge of the two foot gauge, building in very rugged terrain following the terrain instead of having to build bridges, tunnels, embankments and cuttings, got a bit lost this way compared to the 3'.
That's I think the reasson the 3' really took off in the States enabling larger locomotives pulling more of similar sized cars.
The other thing I noticed is terminology, this railraod being in the former British collonies, is called railway as the UK still uses today instead of railroad, the before mentioned centre instead of center is the other example.
I give a lot of credits for the cinematography as well, it was a joy to watch.
Thank you for the compliments on the video and the railroad. The coaches are definitely larger than the ones I rode at the Ffestiniog. 3ft cars on the Colorado railroads are even bigger than this though, you would be surprised at the size difference when placed side by side. Like the 3ft, you definitely feel the 'narrow gauge waggle'' on these cars if the track is less than perfect.
If you come over to Maine, there are several 2ft gauge railroads you can visit. They only operate during the summer season except for the occasional winter photo freight such as this. (this was the first one on the WW&F).
The amazing thing about the WW&F is that they have had to reconstruct the railroad and facilities from whole cloth and have done a terrific job making it as historically accurate as possible. They put on an incredible show and I look forward to returning sometime. There are some pictures from the weekend here as well: gallery.mikemassee.com/-/galleries/steam-railroading/wiscasset-waterville-farmington-railway
Regarding "Railway" vs "Railroad", they were used interchangeably here and often when a railroad went bankrupt and was bought up and re-incorporated, they would simply switch -way with -road or vice versa to signify the change in ownership. Sometimes the change in ownership was only on paper! Previous owners would re-incorporate along with fresh cash infusion from a new partner to wipe the slate clean and attempt to make the railroad profitable again. The larger railroads here did use 'railroad' in the majority of cases while 'railway' tended to be used by short lines and narrow gauge, when it was used.
The 2' gauge equipment was the same with (6') as the standard gauge rolling stock when it was first built. That led to problems with them tipping over.
We never used narrow gauge the same way you folks over the pond, it was more of a poor mans railroad, we had plenty of space just not a lot of money so you won't find short wheel base, narrow & tight curves except in mining & a very few industrial site. Cheers.
This is a good explanation, so narrow gauge was used to save money rather than dictated by the type of terrain.
In South Africa there were/are 2' railways running trough terrain where a 3'6" (their standard gauge) could been built, but just for financial reassons they were built as 2' railways, some of those were later converted to 3'6" or had large bridges etc built in a way this could be done.
Therefore the South African 2' locomotives and stock eventually grew much bigger than the British counterparts, their classes NG15 and NGG16 are respectively the largest single frame locomotive and the largest articulated on the 2' worldwide, eventualy superseded by the class91 diesels built by GE, those used the same loading gauge as the British standard gauge.
There are NGG16 Garrats running on the Welsh Highland Railway in the UK and this line uses the same station in Porthmadog, where the Ffestiniog ends, the Ffestiniog locomotives are dwarfed by those Garrats.
@@Tom-Lahaye Yep same reason why most US steam locomotives are black, they didn't want to spend money constantly cleaning them
What a thing to see here, never mind in person with the smells and everything.
Great video! Very easy to click the subscribe button!
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Wow so cool would love to go for ride...
I cant count how many times I've been there
1:23 the steam generator noise bruh 😍😍
Dynamo: *EE E E E E E EE E E EE E E*
me: 👌
Wenn ich die Geschwindigkeit sehe mit dem Das Essen verteilt wird, frage ich mich warum die Bahn stillgelegt wurde und die Essenausfahrt jetzt mit teureren, weniger effizienten Möglichkeiten erfolgt.
Why do a find these little Forney engines strangely cute
Do they squabble over who gets to toot the horn?
I believe 2 foot gauge is exempt from FRA regulations.
How cold is it?
is that extra pipe used to blow down the boiler?
TexasRailfan21 Are you refeeing to the extra pipe under #9's smoke box?
It amuses me how tiny these locomotives are
In what state, province, or country are these towns?
Maine, USA.
These little guys are "Forney's", are they not?
Yes, they are both 0-4-4 Forneys, based on the original design by Matthias Forney.
i think its narrow gauge steam train?
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Teeny tiny bois
she has quite a deep chuff for her size
Where is this
It's in Wiscaset, Maine. Well worth a visit.
I would love to come up there to see it
@@MasseeMedia technical it's in Alina Maine
Mike, what camera did you shoot this with?
Sony AX100.
Thanks. I'm curious to see what the footage looks like before TH-cam's compression scheme gets a hold of it.
That camera does not do well in low light, so the opening grainy scenes do not compress well. At :52 with the full shot of the #9, that is more representative of what to expect in normal shooting conditions, no noticeable recompression.
Do you use any sort of grip or rig for the handheld shots?
I have one but no. Almost every single shot is tripod, except for the one on the platform in front of the moving engine. That is handheld with steadishot turned on.
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Lovely film, but why do those morons with their digital still cameras leave them set to make clicking noises when they are part of a photo line up that includes videographers?
High end mirrored DSLRs still use physical shutters. It's up to the videographers to get their mics away from the cameras. I traveled light on this trip and did not bring an external mic and could not always position away from the other cameras.
Thumbs down.
I can see why. Your screen was probably upside down and the thumbs up was probably upside down as well.
A train that goes no where doing nothing but polluting the environment.
If you’re so concerned about the pollution caused by the forneys then actually do something about it (other than, you know, complaining about it on TH-cam).
I actually plant wheat alfalfa clover in the yard for co2 capture then feed the wheat to the turkeys.
Calvin Brown i would personally think that life back then when steam ruled over transportation was much more healthy in regards to pollution, instead of today, where our very lifestyle brings havoc to the rest of the world around us, including ourselves. Although, I'm not sure what kind of lifestyle you live, so you may be doing better than me 😂. I'd really love to be a part of that though. Steam has been a passion of mine since I was a child, and it never ceases to amaze me