All aboard for ice cream
Oscar Gallant enjoys some ice cream while waiting for the train on August 25. Below, a four-legged patron dives into his plain ice cream. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Oscar Gallant enjoys some ice cream while waiting for the train on August 25. Below, a four-legged patron dives into his plain ice cream. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
A hot August sun made a perfect afternoon for an ice cream social on August 25 at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna. Senior citizens, small children and their parents, as well as a dog enjoyed the cool treat, plain, for the dog, and with assorted toppings for the humans.
Among those taking a train to the social was train buff Walter Smith, 78, a minister visiting from Lisbon, N.Y. Smith’s father, who had a career as a station master for the New York Central Railroad, instilled in his sons a lifelong interest in trains. “It was considered bad form for a railroad man to like trains, but he did,” Smith said.
Smith, a museum member, praised the many volunteers who work to give the place a sense of “being in 1920.”
“It’s a wonderful reproduction. These people have done a magnificent job,” he said.
For more photos, check out the album of the event.
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