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Little Wills Creek Ranch

We are a small alpaca/llama farm and live steam railroad located in Buffalo Mills, Pa.

11/18/2024

The Lights on the Lake 2024 calendar is officially for each weekend. We are super excited to be a part of such an incredible event for our amazing community! ❤️🎄🚂🦙🎅🏻

11/16/2024

We had a wonderful time helping set up for Lights on the Lake at Rocky Gap State Park this afternoon! What an incredible group of volunteers helping to spread Christmas cheer in our community!

At just $5 a vehicle and the proceeds going to both further the Lights on the Lake experience for years to come as well as raising money for local scholarship programs, this is an event we are very honored to support and be just a small part of. ❤️

11/11/2024

A dear friend of ours and huge supporter of the ranch, Nicholas Parker, brought over is rare G scale live steam 2-6-0 locomotive for a brief photo shoot with it’s larger counterpart, our steam locomotive #7, which is currently in the final stages of cosmetic work for Lights on the Lake at Rocky Gap. Our sweet little one year old Dachshund, Crunch, was very impressed by the little steam engine too.🤣❤️🐶🚂

11/11/2024

We want to take a moment to thank all those who have served, who are currently serving and the families of our armed service members for the incredible sacrifices they have made and continue to make everyday to ensure our safety and freedom. From our family to yours, we wish you all a safe and happy Veterans Day.❤️🇺🇸

11/09/2024

We want to thank everyone who came out to join us for today’s alpaca yoga with Courtney McKay. The animals loved meeting you all as well as getting some extra loving and treats. Baby Chicken Nugget couldn’t get enough of all the new attention and Obsession appreciated all the free treats.❤️🦙For those who missed out this time around, we will be doing another alpaca yoga class this spring, with dates yet to be determined.

The next public event and outing for Obsession and Mr. Chicken will be the second weekend of December Lights on the Lake on Rocky Gap State Park.

11/06/2024

With politics (both positive and negative on all sides) flooding social media today, take a moment to step back, breath and enjoy this adorable baby picture and 7 year old adult picture of our main herd guard llama Gabriel, who has a heart of gold💛🦙Gabriel is looking forward to meeting guests for alpaca yoga this weekend!

There is still time to reserve your spot by sending a PM/Text to (301) 697-9006!

10/23/2024

Mr. Nugget is officially big enough and his fleece full enough to go out in the main pasture full time with his mama Libby, Aunty Rosie and the rest the girls.

He is absolutely loving it and the vet is very pleased with his progress. However, he will likely have to come inside for a couple months during the worst parts of this upcoming winter, but other than that, he is finally ready to have a normal life with the herd. ❤️🦙

10/22/2024

Since the restoration of our steam locomotive #480 is finally nearing completion, we thought we would share some fun facts about locomotive over the next couple of months.

Today’s 480 Fun Fact:

One of the last people to run the locomotive shortly after we purchased and before it was shipped to us from New Zealand was none other than Sir Richard Leslie Taylor, who happened to be a big fan of the engine.

For those who are not aware, Sir Richard Taylor is the founder and creative director of Wētā Workshop, which is a New Zealand based special effects and prop company. Many of you may be most familiar with their work designing sets and customs for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy including but not limited to the world famous hobbit village.

10/20/2024

Due to the warmer weather, Mr. Nugget is able to be out and about running and playing with mama and all his aunties in the mini pens this evening and tomorrow afternoon as they all get used to each other. Once we know everyone is getting along and have set their own herd boundaries, baby and mama will be allowed to spend the bulk of their afternoons this week in the big pasture with the rest of the girls. He and mama will still need to come inside most nights, however it looks as though he can spend at least a couple nights outside with his coat on which we know he will love. ❤️🦙

10/19/2024

Mr. Chicken Nugget has reached 17.8lbs this evening! In addition, his special winter cria coat has arrived. Considering we will be having a week of slightly warmer weather, Mr. Nugget will be joining his mama and aunty Rosie in the mini pastures for a few hours each day to help him integrate into the big girls herd. He is loving every second of it and has endless zoomies!❤️🦙

10/18/2024

Our steam locomotive #480 that came to us from New Zealand during the hight of the pandemic and was dropped from the deck of the cargo ship in Los Angeles, California is nearing the end of its long restoration work. The engine’s smokebox has painted and the loco has passed its boiler hydro test with flying colors. She will be fired up and have her first break in runs this next weekend on their private track before being given the all clear to come home sometime after the Holidays/New Year. The team at BMG Railroad Contractors LLC/Plumcove Studios did an outstanding job on #480 and we can’t wait to show her off to the general public.❤️🚂

10/16/2024

A weekly update on Mr. Chicken Nugget.❤️🦙

He has reached 16.2lbs, has loads of energy/zoomies and he is as healthy as can be. Just as a precaution, he will remain with his mom and aunty Rosie downstairs in the cria (baby) pen until February to ensure he is safe from what is expected to be an extra cold winter this year. However, he will have plenty of supervised time out in the big pen with the other girls over the next few months, weather permitting.

One of his favorite indoor activities is to help with the laundry and play with the cat down in the basement every evening before bedtime.😅❤️

10/15/2024

There is nothing quite like autumn evenings in the Alleghenies.❤️🍁🍂⛰️

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Buffalo Mills, PA

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https://littlewillscreekranch.com/

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Mr. Nugget is officially big enough and his fleece full enough to go out in the main pasture full time with his mama Libby, Aunty Rosie and the rest the girls. He is absolutely loving it and the vet is very pleased with his progress. However, he will likely have to come inside for a couple months during the worst parts of this upcoming winter, but other than that, he is finally ready to have a normal life with the herd. ❤️🦙

Today was Mr. Chicken Nugget’s first out door play time/meet the herd session since the day he was born. He is having a ball as he runs, jumps, plays and chases butterflies around the small winter pens. He reached 13.2lbs this afternoon. ❤️🦙

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for your weekly Chicken Nugget update! Over the last 48 hours, Mr. Nugget has increased his daily weight growth from 0.2lbs to 0.4lbs reaching an amazing 12lbs on the dot early this morning. He is very energetic, playing and thriving in every way. As the weather clears up this weekend, it’s looking like he will finally be getting some herd interactions, albeit supervised for an hour or so at a time. We want to thank everyone for their love, support, thoughts and prayers as Mr. Nugget has made a remarkable turn around in a very brief period of time. ❤️🦙

Last night while we had our steam locomotive #7 fired up, Mr. Chicken Nugget took his first train ride! He was very curious, not nervous at all and had a wonderful time on the short ride. He then insisted on getting a little love and cuddles from his Aunty Tina who was running the engine.

Other than a couple of small projects such as some minor adjustments to the engineer’s side (right side) cylinder cocks, reattaching the loco’s “cowcatcher” style pilot and wiring up the engine’s headlight, steam locomotive #7 (the Holly Marie) is ready to roll for this holiday season. Stay tuned here to our page for some exciting updates!

Yesterday afternoon/evening our two operational coal fired steam locomotives were fired up for their final steam tests in preparation of our fall and Christmas holiday special events. Both locomotives performed very well and made for an impressive display of steam and steel that the Fossilville/Hyndman area has not seen in decades as history came alive again in the Allegheny Mountain valley surrounding Buffalo Mills, Pa!

L.W.C. Steam Loco Fleet

A quick look at the grand scale coal fired live steam locomotives owned and operated by Little Wills Creek Ranch, LLC. Some of these locomotive are either awaiting or undergoing restoration/heavy overhaul while others are currently in operation as they await their public debut. Our oldest steam locomotive was built in 1953 and the newest in 2022.

Steam locomotive #2

A second evening of completely successful steam tests for our British built steam locomotive #2! Engine #2 ran under her own power for the first time on American soil this evening, albeit on a very short section of panel track. After the second successful test fire in the last week, it’s time for steam locomotive #7 to get a little extra TLC. It won’t be long before both steamers are ready for special public events later in the year. ❤️🚂

We are so excited to have this absolutely stunning masterpiece of model making and engineering that we will be able to share with the general public in the not too distant future. In the meantime, we would like to share with y’all this great video of the HO scale layout in action that was generously sent to us from the layout’s previous owner Adam Pomeranz of the BrassBasement.com, so that we can give everyone a little taste of what’s to come at the Ranch later this year.

Steam locomotive #2

Our beautiful British steam locomotive #2 had a successful first test fire last night. For the first time in several decades, the sounds of a genuine coal burning steam locomotive echoed off the hills and valleys of Fossilville/Buffalo Mills just outside Hyndman, Pa.