Re: First Taste of Narrow Gauge - Edaville 1959
| November 30, 2019 07:21PM |
Edaville was my first introduction to both steam and narrow gauge. The bug bit hard and has never let go. Here's me in 1964 next to Bridgton and Saco River #7 when I was 5 years old:
My grandmother lived on Cape Cod and any visit to see "Nana" included a trip to Edaville. I probably went 6 times during my youth. My last visit to Edaville was in 1974 and I didn't get back to that area again until 2014. By then it was closed for remodeling into Thomasland and all of the neat stuff was gone...
My grandmother lived on Cape Cod and any visit to see "Nana" included a trip to Edaville. I probably went 6 times during my youth. My last visit to Edaville was in 1974 and I didn't get back to that area again until 2014. By then it was closed for remodeling into Thomasland and all of the neat stuff was gone...
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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