Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington #9, a 24" gauge 0-4-4, recently completed an extensive rebuild that lasted nearly a decade. This little steam engine is showing off as a result, with a high-speed run-by at Alna Center, at about the halfway mark on the museum's line. This engine was one of ten two-foot-gauge locomotives built by Portland Company (of Portland, Maine). Constructed in 1891 as Sandy River Railroad #5, it became Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes #6 in 1908. In 1924, this locomotive acquired a new number yet again, when it became Kennebec Central #4. It was sold once again, to its fourth owner, in 1933, as Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington #9 - the image it carries today - 125 years after it was built.
