Duplicating from Trains post for obvious reasons

[henry6]

Just back from a  weekend in Maine with grandkids...went to Boothbay Harbor Village narrow guage. I am usually not keen on operations that are invented just for tourism, look more for preservation and conservation of what was a real operation at one time.  But these guys have a great operaiton...2 foot guage; 3 Henchels in working order plus a Plymouth! and a few carcasses laying around;  an assortment of 2 foot guage coaches, cabooses, etc.; an interesting up hill pull and a down hill coast. The pluses are the other things for the whole family included in the $9 adult ticket:  a very interesting and large antique and clasic automobile collection, cars, limos, trucks, et al.; a nice size H O guage model rr in progress 99.9% New England road representaiton circa 1950!;...good picture and model history of WW&F; fire engines, gas/steam stationary engines, toys, furniture, church, general store,  Well worth the trip and the admission price.

But priceless: thought I'd do a round about ride over the top from Bath Me to Binghamton NY...by over the top, find Route 2 across NH from Bethel, ME,  go west on NH RT116 to Littleton,   In the seven years of round tripping this literaly dozens of routes, this is where we saw our first moose, just a few miles east of Whitefield!  Better yet, in Whitefield I found the former MEC/B&M diamond intact though far from used, WITH THE BALL SIGNALS INTACT!!!!  Saw them in use in a driving rain 6/20/67 and stared at the pair lying low in front of the shed in a drizzling rain Mon 10/5/09 with gnarled and frayed cables still threaded up and down and through the pulleys!  Conserved, maybe, but not preserved.  Is anyone in charge here?  Slides taken in 1967 not in computer but prints in '09 will be produced in the near future!