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Boston & Maine Railroad Magazine July-August 1959
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Our front cover picture and No. 4 above show the No. 3713, last steam locomotive used on the Boston and Maine Railroad, now on permanent exhibition in the new multi-million dollar amusement park at Wakefield, Mass. The lovely young lady adorning the head-end is Miss Patricia Nordley, of Lexington, "Miss Massachusetts of 1958" and official hostess at Pleasure Island. Other pictures above are: (1) narrow gauge railroad, a top attraction at Pleasure Island. (2) steam locomotive from Ireland, in foreground, is dwarfed by retired B. and M. passenger diesel, the 3814, in background. (3) former B. and M. dining car, the "Mountaineer," with old 3713. (5) diesel No. 3814 alongside a big Grand Trunk steam locomotive. (6) narrow gauge, 20-ton steam locomotive from a Louisiana sugar cane plantation. (7) the Boston and Maine's former Greenwood station at Wakefield is now a typical century-old depot in service again for the narrow gauge railroad, the most popular ride at Pleasure Island.

 
   
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