Wish you could have seen those flatcars when they first landed here. Ready to fall apart. Sills rotten, flooring gone, and not a brake working. Mr. Atwood hired Roland Badger, a millwright up to Walter Baker’s; Badger is quite a railroad fan himself, has built lots of little scale models for 0-gauge outfits. He was planning on buying a pasture somewhere and making himself some quarter-scale iron colts to run in it. However, the Edaville fits into his dreams pretty well. He’s repaired or rebuilt about every car here: new sills and floors, and got the brakes to working. [Illustration: (_Moody Photo_) A work train at Sunset Vista. The tricky caboose, built by the Maine Central many years ago, adds a realistic touch to Mr. Atwood’s pint-sized railroad. ] [Illustration: (_Moody Photo_) Passenger train in the deep cut at the Ball Field. The elegant coach “Pondicherry” brings up in the rear. ] They’re going out ahead of us! See how easily little No. 3 snakes her train out of the pit. That tricky little caboose they’re hauling came from the Sandy River, like the parlor car. When the Maine Central owned the Sandy River, thirty years ago, they built a number of those cabooses in their Waterville shops. About as perfect a molecular reproduction of a wide gauge buggy as anything could be, eh? I like that cupola. It’s quite a treat to ride up there surveying Mr. Atwood’s eighteen hundred acres from such a vantage point. We’ll see the work train again at Sunset Vista. Let’s go on to the Ball Park now. Are you especially interested in railroads? This may not mean much to you, but if a standard gauge car was built to these same proportions it would be nearly twenty feet wide and twenty-two feet high! Actually they’re only ten feet wide and around twelve or thirteen feet high. Shows you how large, in proportion, these two-footers are. An overhang on either side that’s greater than the gauge of track! Still, they don’t feel like you’re riding a tight rope, do they? Personally, I think what this country needs is more two-foot gauges! [Illustration: (_Moody Photo_) As fine a consist as any “Empire Builder” or “Minute Man”, if you only have eyes to see it! ] The Ball Park! We’re two and a half miles from the screenhouse now. Pretty well to the farther end of Mr. Atwood’s cranberry empire.