(_Moody Photo_) But those passengers hadn’t long to wait; the passenger train came in, and see ’em pile aboard the open excursion cars for their ride through Mr. Atwood’s blooming lands. It isn’t unusual for 3,500 people to ride in a single day; sometimes 600 to a single train! ] LOOK OUT! Oh, heavenly days; _look_ at your shirt! Well, people just have to learn that an engine full of water will spew that black slush all over you. Gosh! What a mess. Married? Jump on: and be careful not to spatter your shirtful all over me. Sit up there on the fireman’s shelf. There; how does this engine ride? A little more jerky than No. 7 but still no worse than lots of wide gauge pots I’ve been on. She’s got steam brakes. No. 7’s and 8’s are vacuum. Those two-footers used all kinds of things for brakes, from modern air to such childish devices as brakemen dragging their feet. They always managed to stop, though. And now they’ve stopped for good--all excepting the Edaville. There’s the parlor car, for instance: got air and vacuum both on her. She used to run over the Sandy River and the Phillips & Rangeley, so when they built her she had the kind of brakes used by each road--vacuum and Westinghouse. No. 4 can pile you through the front window, with those steam stoppers of hers! [Illustration: (_Moody Photo_) The excursion train is ready to leave. ] [Illustration: (_Moody Photo_) The new station at Edaville is swarming with expectant people; No. 7 puffs across No. 2 Bog to disgorge her crowd and take a new load on. Often 600 automobiles are parked here at one time. ] Yes, these little pigs did a lot of work up there in northern Maine. You should have seen them settle down to dragging a train of slate up the hill. That Monson road always used link-and-pin couplers, too; never changed over to automatic. I don’t know how they sidestepped the Government laws, but they did. Common carrier, at that. Link-and-pin couplers, stub switches, and hand brakes; just about as modern as a ramrod rifle. Far as I know it was the last road left that hadn’t turned the century. Here’s that switch again: he’s throwing it for the loop. In a minute we’ll be backing up through the woods and into the station. Two tracks there; we’ll clear the passenger. Quite a trip, wasn’t it? Have a good time? Everyone does; even old timers who’ve railroaded for years. Mr. Atwood’s Edaville Railroad’s got something they never saw before!