. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. along ccuntry highways that TV cameras were present to cover it. The feat was accomplished by a firm' of Providence riggers at a cost of thousands of dollars. Other locomotives to be ac- quired later will be giants up to 250 tons. He expects to have every gauge line ever run in North America. There will be 3 foot from Pennsylvania, the standard 4 ft. 81/2 inch and an odd .3V2 foot locomotive which will be sent by ship from Newfoundland. There will be old-fashioned din- ing cars, parlor cars, maybe pri- vate cars, showing what was t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. along ccuntry highways that TV cameras were present to cover it. The feat was accomplished by a firm' of Providence riggers at a cost of thousands of dollars. Other locomotives to be ac- quired later will be giants up to 250 tons. He expects to have every gauge line ever run in North America. There will be 3 foot from Pennsylvania, the standard 4 ft. 81/2 inch and an odd .3V2 foot locomotive which will be sent by ship from Newfoundland. There will be old-fashioned din- ing cars, parlor cars, maybe pri- vate cars, showing what was the fashion in the age of the gay nineties. Steam locomotives are no longer made in this country. Keeping Edaville's four diminutive engines is no easy or minor repair item. For the first time this past sum- m'sr all four of the coal burners were in operation at one time. In this day of the diesel new parts have to be custom made. New boilers cost plenty, so does the laying of track, making roadbed and keeping all equipment in good working order. Now a Ride to '"Somewhere" One of Mr. Blount's first steps was the changing of the rides on the trains, from a journey around the bogs to nowhere, to a journey to somewhere. He built a new sta- tion—in the design of tradition <if say 1890, which would have been a credit to any town of that time. This was named "Cranberry .Junction," a building 80 feet long, 30 wide and three stories high. It includes a huge fireplace, capable of taking six foot logs to keep off chill on cool days. There the visitor embarks for the old Edaville station (now blocked off to general traffic), thus making a definite joui-ney to a definite place. At this old sta- tion, Edaville Center, the traveller disembarks. There are soft drinks and food at the station, souvenirs, and from there the visitor m'ay go to the greatly-expanded railroad museum. Inside is certainly one of the finest toy train collections in America, old railroad prints a
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