They’re having a ball game up here today; South Carver Sunday School
playing the West Wareham Firemen--seems to be an appropriate analogy
there, don’t you think? Sunday Schools usually do oppose people who’re
heading for the Fire! Two hundred people watching that game; came up on
a special train right after dinner. Those people ’way over at the edge
of the woods, they’re Plymouth Kiwanians having their annual clambake.
They’re great for clam bakes down here; say it makes ’em tough.
Oh: you wanted to see one of the motor cars. Here’re two of them. This
Model T touring car I like best; Sandy River built her in their Phillips
shop. Master Mechanic Lee Stinchfield designed them all. He ought to be
with Electro-Motive; he’d design diesel locomotives better’n they have
now! They’re the neatest little rail cars I’ve ever seen. Mr. Atwood has
two of these T Models; this touring, and a canopy body truck. They have
a wholly different rear-end arrangement: kind of a “take-off” idea; put
a little lever in forward gear and they’ll scoot away in high. Put it in
back position and you fly backwards in high! This touring car was
Superintendent Vose’s private car; he thought nothing of dropping down
from Redington in twenty minutes; sixteen crooked, hilly miles. In
winter he’s often pushed snow ahead of her radiator. They saved the
Sandy River lots of money when otherwise a steam train would have gone
out with fire-fighters or a repair crew. They save Mr. Atwood a lot.
Quicker and cheaper than a pickup for cranberry men to run around in.
This other one here, the G4, is quite a wagon: something like the big
gas-electrics on wide gauge roads. She seats fifteen people and used to
haul a four-wheel trailer for mail and express. In summertime the Sandy
River ran two of these rail-buses in place of steam passenger trains.
Mr. Atwood occasionally uses this one to carry some visitors over the
road but it’s mostly a sort of de luxe work car for his own crews.
Well, there goes No. 7’s bell: must be we’re leaving again. Want to ride
the engine down to Sunset Vista? Mr. Atwood won’t like this if he sees
us as it’s strictly against the rules; insurance company, or something.
All settled? Keep off that steam pipe or you’ll be settled in Doc Nye’s
office down to Wareham.
[Illustration:
(_Hosmer Photo_)
Cold nor snow can stop the midget Edaville trains from scooting like a
field-mouse among the bogs.
]
Here we go. You can see lots of bog from here. Nearly half the whole
plantation’s in sight. There’s the big reservoir, Number Two, three
hundred acres. Holds millions of gallons. Water is all pumped in from
the river over back of the Ball Park. Fish come in through the pump,
too, believe it or not!
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