Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Portland preserves and operates equipment from Maine’s unique two-foot narrow gauge railroads — a remarkable family of lines that served the rural communities of central and western Maine from the 1870s through 1943. Housed on the Portland waterfront at Fore Street, the museum offers short excursion rides behind restored two-foot gauge steam and diesel locomotives along a scenic track with views of Casco Bay, providing an intimate and authentic glimpse of the smallest common-carrier railroads that ever operated in the United States. The museum’s collection includes rolling stock from all five of Maine’s two-foot gauge lines, making it the preeminent repository of this distinctly Maine railroading tradition. The museum and its train rides operate seasonally with regular weekend hours.