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Grand Trunk Western Railway (Steam) 4-8-2 "Mountain" #6039

The "Shay" 2317 locomotive's trail leads through Pleasure Island and May end in Steamtown... or is there confusion with a Canadian Pacific steam engine with the same number? (Meadow River Lumber Company No. 1 Type: 2-truck Shay-geared Built: Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, OH, May 1910 Used: hardwood lumber manufacturing plant in West Virginia.) Photo

  • http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/lima2399/sn-2317.htm
  • http://www.trainweb.org/gearedsteam/shay/images_m.htm (Photos by Otto C. Perry - Copyright © 1995-1999 Denver Public Library.)
  • Tape available from Saul Nadler's Railroad Video Library "76 Great Train From BBC England; Steamtowns 2317 , 630 & 4501." http://www.centurypress.com/snvideo.html (page no longer available)
 
Lady Edith
xxxx Wakefield Item, July 23, 1959
 
  • Railway Archives of Canada -- Canadian Pacific In The Maritimes
    • At Mcadam on the trip early in 1942, streamlined 4-4-4 #2929 came in on passenger from St. Stephen and later on the same train went north to Woodstock, to come east in the evening and continue to St. Stephen. Trains coming and going all night, not including yard power switching the yards. http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/Features/CPRInTheMaritimesPart2.html
    • In 1937 earlier, new from its builder Canadian Locomotive Company of Kingston, Ont. streamlined Jubilee 4-4-4 #2929 arrived in Saint John, and ran in service between Saint John and Fredericton. http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/Features/CPRInTheMaritimesPart1.html
  • Steamtown locomotive roster: Canadian Pacific Railway No. 2929 Type: 4-4-4 "Jubliee" Built: Canadian Locomotive Company, 1938 Used for lightweight fast passenger service. Stored off-site. http://www.northeast.railfan.net/stm_loco_rstr.html#CANADIAN
  • N Scale for Sale: http://www.hurricane.net/~trains/n-mpower.htm #2928 Canadian Pacific $59.99 #2928-2 Southern...black $59.99 #2929 Undecorated $59.99
Betsy
Greenwood Depot 
  The Greenwood Depot was moved to Pleasure Island and burned after the park closed. A famous Boston & Maine station design, it was replicated at the Lomita California Railroad Museum.March 12, 1955
 
Car W-3238 
  The Saga of B&M No. 1246: New Life for a Sad Old Coach
Railroad sketches by Priscilla Hendrick
  Trestle
  Train with burro ride in foreground
Photo of Engineer in 1966
 
Postcards
  HIGHBALLING WITH OLD SMOKEY AT PLEASURE ISLAND
  GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY AT PLEASURE ISLAND

 

 
 
 
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