Village News
Railway Village Museum Spooktacular Event – 2025
2025 Annual Appeal
Dear Friends of the Boothbay Railway Village, As we wind down our 2025 season, we’re filled with gratitude — for your support, the memories made on our grounds, and the legacy we continue to uphold together. We were honored this year to receive the “Most Notable...
BRCTV talk show host, Tim Lewis interviews BRV Tour Guide Director, Denny Wilkinson.
2024 Annual Appeal
Dear Friends, It is with gratitude that we send the 2024 annual letter, marking the successful completion of the museum’s 60th season. Sixty years of family traditions, community partnerships, and the preservation of Maine’s history, made possible by all of you, the...
Last train of the North Pole Express
The last train to the North Pole left the station at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon (Dec. 17), after three weekends of sold out trains at the Boothbay Railway Village Museum. Santa received thousands of letters from enchanted children, and families from all over Maine and...
2023 Annual Appeal
Dear Friends, As we prepare for the start of the holiday season, we take time to give thanks to our Museum supporters. It is with your generous and continued support that we close another successful season. Thanks to you, we have not only survived the challenges of...
Right on track: Railway museum’s only female engineer hooked on trains
Courtesy of the Boothbay Register On one of the warmest days in August 2015, John Orne, a train engineer at Boothbay Railway Village Museum, invited his wife Cathy to join him in the cab of one of the steam-powered locomotives. He showed her how the train works, and...
DENNY WILSON: VOLUNTEER, EMPLOYEE & FRIEND
The Railway Museum has lost a valuable member of its weekend seasonal team. Alden “Denny” Wilson was an integral part of the Railway Museum as a volunteer in the engine house and a seasonal employee at the automobile exhibit. At the end of the 2022 season, Denny...
Fall Foliage Festival Applications Now Being Accepted
OCT 7-8 | SAT 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | SUN 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM | 55th Annual FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL The Fall Foliage Festival has been a family tradition in Mid Coast, Maine, for the past 54 years, featuring dozens of vendor booths, fabulous entertainment, live music,...
2022 Annual Appeal
Dear Friends, November is a time of reflection at the museum. As our team of staff, volunteers and board members prepare the grounds for winter, we reflect on a year past and envision the year ahead. And in keeping with the worldwide November tradition, we give...
