The cards on this page are part of the first complete set of postcards printed for the Edaville Railroad. There are 15 cards in the original set and I am still looking for the last one, a carved eagle on a rock overlooking the bogs. E-mail me if you know of one that is available.
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Caption: The Edaville Railroad with its 5.4 mile circuit of two foot gauge track with many spur tracks and 80 odd pieces of rolling stock serves the 1800 acre Edaville Plantation with 400 acres of reservoirs and its 200 acres of bogs with a yearly production of cranberries sufficient to make 2,500,000 cans of delicious OCEAN SPRAY sauce.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: The Parlor Car "Rangeley" built in 1901, is the only car of its kind ever to be built in this country. It is luxuriously fitted and has mahogany woodwork throughout. Mr. Ellis D. Atwood, standing on the platform, shows the Lilliputian size of this custom-built car.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: An interior view of the Parlor car "Rangeley". Mr. Ellis D. Atwood, owner of the Edaville Railroad, and Mrs. E. D. Atwood are seated in foreground. This custom-built car is the only car of its kind ever to be built in America.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Eda Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Edaville, showing one of the many bogs in this beautiful 1800 acre Plantation, with the screen house in the background. Edaville Plantation has 200 acres of cranberry bogs, 400 acres of reservoirs and 18 miles of private roads.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Edaville passenger train coming into the station, carrying a load of passengers who have just seen the origin of OCEAN SPRAY products growing on the bogs of Edaville plantation.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: #7 engine with Mr. Ellis D. Atwood, owner, in the cab. It is a Baldwin locomotive built in 1913. #7 has 12x16 inch cylinders, 35 inch drivers, weighs 66,500 lbs., and carries 180 pounds of steam. Formerly used on the Bridgton & Saco Railroad, now on the Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Mass.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Edaville Passenger Train with Engine #4 approaching the crossing at Eda Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Edaville. #4 is the former Monson Line Engine, weighing 36,000 lbs., and was built in 1918 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It is one of four remaining 2 foot gauge Engines on the North American Continent, all of which are now at Edaville.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Passengers disembarking from a ride on the Edaville Railroad. The Cranberry Belt has 5.4 miles of two foot gauge track with many spur tracks and 80 odd pieces of rolling stock.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: The Edaville Railroad coming through the cut in Mt. Urann. This point is about halfway through the 5.42 mile circuit that serves the Edaville Plantation and its 200 acres of cranberry bogs.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Edaville Passenger Train coming 'round the Bend, approaching one of the 18 private road crossings and 38 curves on the Cranberry Belt Line.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: The Caboose used on the Edaville Railroad. This caboose was used formerly on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Line.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: #7 of the Edaville Railroad hauling a load of interested passengers around the Edaville Plantation. The Edaville Railroad has 5.42 miles of track which winds around the 1800 acre Plantation. This is the only fully equipped two foot gauge steam railroad on the North American continent.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: The Edaville Railroad with its 5.4 mile circuit of two foot gauge track with many spur tracks and 80 odd pieces of rolling stock serves the 1800 acre Edaville Plantation with 400 acres of reservoirs and its 200 acres of bogs with a yearly production of cranberries sufficient to make 2,500,000 cans of delicious OCEAN SPRAY sauce.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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Caption: Passenger Train leaving Edaville. The Edaville Railroad is the only fully equipped two foot gauge steam railroad on the North American continent with its 5.42 mile circuit and 80 odd pieces of rolling stock.On Saturday afternoons and Sundays the track is cleared of all work trains and the railroad is devoted to the relaxation and pleasure of the public.
Published: Penn Stationers, Plymouth, MA, 1947 |
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