> This question came up on another list awhile
> back.......Surprisingly hard to make a
> definitive answer. Cretainly the White Pass
> is among the oldest surviving, and they've
> been hauling tourists (although not
> exclusively) almost since the beginning.
> But for the oldest continously operated
> tourist hauler, my vote goes to an unlikely
> and virtually unknown line in Northern
> Michigan; the Toonerville Trolley. Speaking
> off the cuff here, as I don't have
> references at hand, but IRRC it's been in
> operation since 1925 under same-family
> ownership. I've a picture of a train on the
> line in the 1930's, pulled by a little
> Fordson or Brookeville critter, two open-air
> cars so overloaded that folks are riding on
> the roof and hanging off the lokie. Today
> it's considered the oldest and longest 2-ft
> ga. RR in the U.S.
> regards,
> J

Could some one tell us more about this Northern Michigan operation??

justighe@bright.net

Is the little Plymouth at Raymond, New Hampshire the onetime Stewartstown No. 6, which later worked on the Wolfeboro RR?


ryarger@rypn.org