Day 7.199: Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co.

With the threat of a stormy turn for the weather on Sunday, we made the most of Saturday's sunshine with a visit to the narrow gauge railroad in Portland in the afternoon. The museum is fairly small, but packed with a nice variety of exhibits. There were trains (of various kinds) to explore:

Morse code messages to be sent over a rather short telegraph using a Morse key:

and this:

Then, after a happy hour or so, it was time for our train ride.

The train stops at the end of the line where a not-safe-for-travel bridge spans the opening to Back Cove.

The swing section of the bridge (permanently open for water-traffic) is home to a family of ospreys.

We see them often enough that I should be getting blasé about them by now - but not a chance!

After that, we had a delicious meal at Boone's as Exile #2 mentioned and then a wonderful treat-sized sorbetto or gelato at Gelato Fiasco to fuel us for the walk back to the car (and because, especially for E5N1 and me, the choice of multiple amazing dairy-free flavours is not-to-be-missed).