Nelson Blount's second involvement after Edaville was a display of engines and two-foot gauge operation at a Wakefield Massachusetts amusement park called Pleasure Island. Some photos here:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ge=34&key=
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ge=34&key=
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ge=35&key=
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ge=61&key=
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ge=84&key=

Any ideas what has happened to the equipment since NB left?

Rich C.

After Pleasure Island closed, the two foot equipment went back to Edaville and most of the standard gauge equipment went back to Steamtown, but it seems to be all over the place now.

From the list here: http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=200702211718408278.jpg&order=bydate&page=84&key=...

Edaville 0-4-4T #3 (ex Monson - the list has the origins of #5 and #3 mixed up) is at the Maine Narrow Gauge museum in Portland

Edavile 0-4-4T #5 (former plantation engine) is now WW&F 10 operating at Alna

B&M 4-6-2 #3713 is slowly being restored in Scranton

B&M E7A #3814 was scrapped in 1962

Meadow River Lumber Shay #1 is on display in the yard at Scranton

Eastern Gas & Fuel 0-6-0 #4 is on display in Gorham, NH, masquerading as Grand Trunk #7531

CN 4-6-4T (incorrectly listed as 4-6-6T) #47 is in the yard at Scranton

CN 4-6-0 #1395 is on display at the Coopersville & Marne Railway in Michigan

CN 2-6-0 #96 is in storage at the Ohio Central

CP 4-4-4 #2929 is still in Scranton, I believe, but wasn't she sold to a Canadian group a couple years back?

Rahway Valley 2-8-0 #15 is on display at Scranton

GTW 4-8-2 #6039 is on display at Scranton

Godchaux Sugar 2-6-0 #6 is on display in Fennimore, Wisconsin.

I'm not sure about the Irish engines, is the 4-4-0 the one in NJ? Or did they go back to Ireland? I also have no info on the passenger and freight cars listed there.

Both are correct. :) 2-6-2T #5 went back to Ireland is now at the Great Southern Railway Preservation Society, Tralee, Ireland. 4-4-0T #3L (Lady Edith) is at the NJ Museum of Transport.

-James Hefner
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Surviving World Steam Project

bob,

the #5 in the Wakefield pictures was later at Edaville and now at the WW&F Museum as their #10. She has had a major re-building and should continue to operate for a long time. by the way, the museum had a Pleasure Island weekend last summer or maybe the year before.

Ted Miles

This is one of those rare times where I would have rather lost a garden variety steamer (how many CN 2-6-0's and 4-6-0's do we have now?) in place of a signifigant, historic diesel. This would have been only the second E7 preserved. Sigh.

Dave Crosby

No 10 (from 2004) with many parts yet to be re-installed. Pleasure Island Day was only the 2nd time No 10 had been steamed up since the rebuild.