Edaville Tank
CRAFTSMAN/Bob Bennett , photographs by the author As I have realized and writ-
ten many times in recent years, the driving forces that contribute to our hobby activities can come from any number of sources. For me, a model railroader with 50 years’ experience and a magazine collection the same “age” in some cases, inspiration comes from ar- ticles and plans emerging from some of those “ancient” publica- tions. This project is just such a model, having jumped from the Hal Carstens cover photo and ac- companying pages of the Septem- ber 1968 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. The prototype is the water tank at the Edaville Rail- road in South Carver, Massachu- setts. And, as is normal with most of my modeling efforts, I made some compromises, mostly to ac- commodate materials and parts I had on hand. Edaville as an entity still exists, though not nearly in the form it took at its height as a place of “rescue” for quite a bit of
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Maine Two Foot equipment. Edaville’s history has been
well documented. Suffice it to say, without the efforts of Ellis D. At- wood, for whom the location was named (look at the three initials), little if any vestiges of the Maine Two Foot lines would exist today. With the help of some other pres- ervationists, Atwood purchased four Forney-type locomotives and several passenger and freight cars in the immediate post-WWII era. He moved the equipment to Mas- sachusetts and restored them to running condition to be operat- ed on his large cranberry-grow- ing plantation. In 1993, much of this equipment transferred to the Maine Narrow Gauge Museum in Portland, Maine; relocation to Portland suburb Gray, Maine, appears to be in the offing in the next few years. The water tank constructed nearly across from the Edaville station played a vital role in the successful operation of
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