Transportation Museums of the Maine Coast,
Wood Boats and Airplanes
Wood Boats and Airplanes
Maine Coast Transportation Museums,
Art Museums and Nature Preserves on Maine's Coast
Art Museums and Nature Preserves on Maine's Coast
Travel further north and you come to the Owls Head Transportation
Museum in Rockland and its collection of antique aircraft.
They also show antique trucks, including a 1916 Reo and a 1926
Model-T snowmobile along with classic cars and vintage commercial
vehicles.
The stars here, however, are the WWI fighter aircraft including a 1923
Fokker, a 1917 Curtiss Jenny, and a 1916 Sopwith Pup, so frail that
you would not think that they could fly. Watch restorers do incredible
work with these beautiful machines and join the summer fly-in swap
meets, classic car auctions, and antique auto shows where they pull
out the chocks and fly a few of their 28 vintage airplanes that date
from a recreated 1804 glider to a 1946 fighter.
They also have engine displays, special antique transportation
exhibits, and free rides in a Model T Ford.
Ten miles north will put you in Windjammer country and the port of
Camden, home to a fleet of antique schooners that offer daily or
week-long cruises where you relive the days of the tall sailing ships
that hauled fish and ice, lumber and lime from the ports of Maine to the
cities along the Atlantic coast.
When you feel that tug of nostalgia for simpler times and the lure of
those venerable machines, come to the Maine Coast antique
transportation museums. Here you can step back to the turn of the
last century into graceful chariots of iron and wood, canvas and wire to
relive an era.
Museum in Rockland and its collection of antique aircraft.
They also show antique trucks, including a 1916 Reo and a 1926
Model-T snowmobile along with classic cars and vintage commercial
vehicles.
The stars here, however, are the WWI fighter aircraft including a 1923
Fokker, a 1917 Curtiss Jenny, and a 1916 Sopwith Pup, so frail that
you would not think that they could fly. Watch restorers do incredible
work with these beautiful machines and join the summer fly-in swap
meets, classic car auctions, and antique auto shows where they pull
out the chocks and fly a few of their 28 vintage airplanes that date
from a recreated 1804 glider to a 1946 fighter.
They also have engine displays, special antique transportation
exhibits, and free rides in a Model T Ford.
Ten miles north will put you in Windjammer country and the port of
Camden, home to a fleet of antique schooners that offer daily or
week-long cruises where you relive the days of the tall sailing ships
that hauled fish and ice, lumber and lime from the ports of Maine to the
cities along the Atlantic coast.
When you feel that tug of nostalgia for simpler times and the lure of
those venerable machines, come to the Maine Coast antique
transportation museums. Here you can step back to the turn of the
last century into graceful chariots of iron and wood, canvas and wire to
relive an era.
North along coastal Route One, you come to the shipbuilding town of Bath, still making steel warships.
Beside the shipyard along the shore of the Kennebec River stretches the Maine Maritime Museum, once
the home of the Percy and Small Shipyard. Wood boat lovers and students still practice the craft in the
caulker's shed, joiner shop, mold loft, and the tree nail shop where once square riggers took shape
including the largest ever built, the six-masted schooner Wyoming. Andrew Wyeth fans can see his small
wood pleasure boat moored on the river and art lovers will see great marine models and paintings in the
museum's gallery.
A little further north, near Wiscasset, you find the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway, one
man's dream to rebuild a narrow gage rail line the had lain dormant since its last run in June of 1933. Over
the years Harry Percival's enthusiasm enticed 700 volunteers to join him and these train lovers have
faithfully restored the buildings, station, and rolling stock and have found one of the original narrow-gage
steam engines that operated on the line in the 30s. Each summer weekend they haul passengers on over
a mile of track built on the old right of way that once brought lumber and coal to the mills, potatoes, mail,
and shoppers to the seaport of Wiscasset.
Beside the shipyard along the shore of the Kennebec River stretches the Maine Maritime Museum, once
the home of the Percy and Small Shipyard. Wood boat lovers and students still practice the craft in the
caulker's shed, joiner shop, mold loft, and the tree nail shop where once square riggers took shape
including the largest ever built, the six-masted schooner Wyoming. Andrew Wyeth fans can see his small
wood pleasure boat moored on the river and art lovers will see great marine models and paintings in the
museum's gallery.
A little further north, near Wiscasset, you find the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway, one
man's dream to rebuild a narrow gage rail line the had lain dormant since its last run in June of 1933. Over
the years Harry Percival's enthusiasm enticed 700 volunteers to join him and these train lovers have
faithfully restored the buildings, station, and rolling stock and have found one of the original narrow-gage
steam engines that operated on the line in the 30s. Each summer weekend they haul passengers on over
a mile of track built on the old right of way that once brought lumber and coal to the mills, potatoes, mail,
and shoppers to the seaport of Wiscasset.
Antique Trains, Planes, and Automobiles,
the old ones have gone to pasture in coastal Maine
On mid coast Maine you can find World War I airplanes at the
Owls Head Antique Air Museum in Rockland, wood sailing
ships at the Shipbuilding Museum in Bath, brass lamp
Stanley Steamers at the Auto Museum at Wells, narrow gage
steam engines at the Maine Narrow Gage Railroad Museum
in Portland, antique electric trains at the Seashore Trolley
Museum in Kennebunkport, and antique Schooners still sailing
the bays out of Camden.
the old ones have gone to pasture in coastal Maine
On mid coast Maine you can find World War I airplanes at the
Owls Head Antique Air Museum in Rockland, wood sailing
ships at the Shipbuilding Museum in Bath, brass lamp
Stanley Steamers at the Auto Museum at Wells, narrow gage
steam engines at the Maine Narrow Gage Railroad Museum
in Portland, antique electric trains at the Seashore Trolley
Museum in Kennebunkport, and antique Schooners still sailing
the bays out of Camden.
Transportation Museums of the Maine Coast include
World War I airplanes at the Owls Head Antique Air
Museum in Rockland, brass lamp Stanley Steamers at the
Auto Museum at Wells, and narrow gage steam trains at
Portland's Maine Narrow Gage Railroad Museum.
World War I airplanes at the Owls Head Antique Air
Museum in Rockland, brass lamp Stanley Steamers at the
Auto Museum at Wells, and narrow gage steam trains at
Portland's Maine Narrow Gage Railroad Museum.
Transportation Museums of the
Maine Coast include the World
War I airplanes at the Owls Head
Antique Air Museum in Rockland
along with its antique autos.
The Wells Antique Auto Museum
displays brass lamp Stanley
Steamers and steam train rides
are offered on weekends at
Portland Maine Narrow Gage
Railroad Museum.
Maine Coast include the World
War I airplanes at the Owls Head
Antique Air Museum in Rockland
along with its antique autos.
The Wells Antique Auto Museum
displays brass lamp Stanley
Steamers and steam train rides
are offered on weekends at
Portland Maine Narrow Gage
Railroad Museum.
Narrow Gage at Alna
near Wiscasset
near Wiscasset
Antique aircraft at Owls Head Antique Air
Museum in Rockland
Museum in Rockland
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and then Maine. The first coastal town will be Kittery
and then Maine. The first coastal town will be Kittery
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