Three-year-old Barrett “Bear” Hisler of Newcastle likes trains so much, when the steam train at Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna left Sheepscot Station with him on it Sept. 27, he started singing “I’ve been working on the railroad.”

He listens to the song on a cassette tape, grandmother Lisa Hisler, also of Newcastle, explained. Her grandson and his cousins are into all things trains, so she and other family members took them to the museum’s fall festival on Saturday.

Event-goers took the train to Alna Center Station to find a pumpkin patch, face-painting table, a kite for flying, a pumpkin carver to watch, the museum’s green, 1930 Model AA truck to ride, and floating apples for the bobbing.

The pumpkin patch, with pumpkins for the taking, was the highlight for Brunswick’s Eliza Davis, 5. She and brother Jesse Davis, 2,  were at the festival with parents Sarah and Michael Davis and his parents, Kathy and Larry Davis, visiting from Fairfax, Virginia. The children’s grandfather is an avid rail rider.

The back of the 84-year-old truck, a donation to the museum, was lined with hay bales for its riders to sit on. It used to transport hay on a Nebraska farm, museum volunteer and Alna resident Stewart Rhine said. Now its loads are lumber, railroad ties and, occasionally, museum visitors on special days like the festival.

Rhine was driving the truck Saturday.

“It’s wonderful to see little kids that have never seen an 80-year-old truck, or sometimes their parents that have never seen one,” he said between rides.

Andy Rice of Bowdoin was carving a depiction of the museum onto a pumpkin whose grower, Rice’s fellow Bath Iron Works employee Josh Botting of Woolwich, estimated at about 250 pounds.

“This is a phenomenal pumpkin,” Rice said. The wood carver got into carving pumpkins four or five years ago when a friend asked him to work on one.

“It’s a lot easier to pumpkin-carve, because it’s softer,” he said. “And like any carving, there’s no mistakes. You just redesign as you go.”

The museum has been doing the festival since 2010, but never on as nice a day as Saturday turned out to be, the museum’s president Stephen Zuppa said.

“It was cold and rainy and overcast last year,” Zuppa said. “But this is absolutely gorgeous.”

So was the foliage. Only the open-air train’s side railings separated riders from the green, orange and yellow trees along the route.

“The main thing is to to do something for the community,” Zuppa said about why the nonprofit museum’s volunteers put in the extra effort the festival and other annual events require. “I mean this is a fun event. Look at all the people ... having a good time ... Of course, we benefit as well. The donation box is always out.”

The day’s turnout of 188 people broke a record for the festival, Zuppa said later.