This one is for all you train aficionados out there!
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum is one tourist attraction that Rhe’s son Jack would love. And also Dr. Sheldon Cooper, from the Big Bang Theory. Located on Portland’s waterfront, the museum is dedicated to the preservation of Maine’s two-foot gauge railways for the education and enjoyment of the public. Funded in 1993, this organization contains a collection of rolling stock and artifacts from the two feet narrow gauge railways that ran in Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
The trains, called Maine Two-Footers, were originally designed and built to carry people and 
products through Maine’s mountainous interior. The five narrow gauge trains that once operated in Maine, ran in rural areas on lines that ran through woods and carried passengers, farming materials, lumber and some manufacturing goods
The museum and railroad are housed in a 7,500-square-foot space in the Portland Company complex on Fore Street. In addition to exhibits, the organization operates a 1½ mile long railroad that runs along the waterfront of Casco Bay and parallels Portland’s Eastern Promenade. A variety of restored locomotives and coaches are used in running the train.
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum is moving ahead with
plans to leave Portland’s waterfront. Most of the operations are scheduled to move to Gray in 2016, but rides may be offered in Portland until 2023. The new location in Gray is an easy ride from Portland but is more central to other population centers, such as the Sebago Lake region, Freeport and Lewiston-Auburn.
The museum is open Saturdays through Thursdays from May to October (closed Fridays).
If Sheldon saw this he’d be talking about it for years.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
Maybe I should suggest the writers work it into a script..snort, snort!
Yes, and suggest you get invited along when Sheldon visits you can get us autographs.
xxx Hugs Galore xxx
Great old trains.
I am a BIG fan, which is probably why I like the Clive Cussler Isaac Bell series…
What a luxory to travel by this amazing train! Even if you have to wait a year… 🙂
They have a narrow guage RR here in North Carolina called Tweetsie Railroad – it’s up in the mountains and we used to take the kids there every year until they sort of outgrew it (Mom never did)!
That’s it. Maine has everything I need for a vacation. Sold.
Pack your bags, summer is coming!
You’re making me want to go to Maine. Sounds like there’s lots to do.
Does American have any fights into Bangor?
Hi – I do really like trains. The museum sounds like something I could get lost in all day. 🙂
Plan to go NOT in tourist season – it’s crowded with kids in the summer.
Been to Portland a few times but never checked this out. Thanks for the suggestion.
Sounds like the Portland area has a couple of new things for you to see!
What a wonderful post with GREAT photographs. I’ve never been to Portland, but having a chance now trailing along with you.
We can trade up trips to Maine and Chicago!
How fun! I loved looking inside the cars.
I’ve got to put my serial characters on a real train, not just their little road locomotive. Hugs. 😀
Mmmm, you’re giving me ideas.
Love the interiors of the passenger cars. Very beautiful… if they still made trains like that today, they’d be way out of my price range!!
Maybe not. You can ride on these at the Museum…
That’s really cool. 🙂 But I just meant the regular train, from city to city. 😛 Still, another place to go!