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WW&F No. 10 in service on our Railway. <\/em>\u00a0Photo courtesy of Andrew Toppan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WW&F locomotive No. 10 was built in 1904 by the Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, as a 30″-gauge locomotive for Underwood, Short & Reeves of Belleview Plantation, Louisiana.\u00a0 Its original owner named the locomotive High Pockets<\/em>.\u00a0 In later years the locomotive also saw service on two other sugar plantations: Sterling Sugars, Inc. at Franklin, LA; and Dugas & LeBlanc Ltd. at Westfield Plantation in Paincourtville, LA.\u00a0 This was Westfield’s 4th locomotive and ended service there in 1957.\u00a0 During its last years in Louisiana service, the locomotive carried the name Betsy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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No. 10\u2019s builder\u2019s photo taken at the Vulcan Iron Works in 1904.<\/em> Photo courtesy the RR Museum of Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After it left active service, Betsy<\/em> was acquired by the scrapping firm Elray Kocke Service, Inc., of Donaldsonville, LA.\u00a0 Photos from 1957 of the locomotive being loaded onto a trailer can be found in a timeline on the company\u2019s website<\/a>. \u00a0The locomotive was soon sold to the Edaville Railroad of South Carver, Mass, bringing her to New England.<\/p>\n

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Betsy is seen on static display along Eda Avenue at Edaville. The sign shares some of the Louisiana history of the locomotive.<\/em> Photo courtesy Polly Farrington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Edaville gave their new acquisition the number 5 and overhauled it, including a new, larger boiler and a regauging to 24 inches.\u00a0 It was then put into service at the new Pleasure Island amusement park in Wakefield, Mass.<\/p>\n

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WW&F #10 in service at Pleasure Island in the mid-1960s. Photo courtesy Allan Fisher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Friends of Pleasure Island group has two webpages posted on the park railroad, both containing images of Edaville No. 5.\u00a0 The first page<\/a> includes a September 9th, 1959 list of Edaville equipment at the park which includes No. 5.\u00a0 The second page<\/a> includes a history of the locomotive.<\/p>\n

A few YouTube videos have been posted over the years showing No. 5 in operation at Pleasure Island, including here<\/a> (featuring No. 5), here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No. 5 returned to Edaville after Pleasure Island closed for good following the 1969 season. \u00a0Because of its small size and inability to haul the usual Edaville train size around the railroad\u2019s 5\u00bd-mile loop, it was set out as a static display.\u00a0 It was used to generate electricity with steam during the 1970s oil crisis, but otherwise saw no service.\u00a0 No. 5 did travel at least once, to the Burlington (MA) Mall in April 1973 to help promote Massachusetts tourism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Edaville No. 5 as seen in 1970. \u201cOld Smokey R.R.\u201d was one of two names used for Pleasure Island\u2019s railroad; the other was \u201cPleasure Island & Western.\u201d<\/em> Photo courtesy Savery Moore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Resurrection came in 1998 by a group hoping to restart the dormant Edaville attraction.\u00a0 After getting No. 5 back to operational status, the group put the locomotive up for sale the following year.\u00a0 Thanks to some generous donations by Museum members, the engine arrived at the WW&F on the afternoon of August 6th, 1999.<\/p>\n

Following the tradition of railroads everywhere and completed in time for our 1999 Annual Picnic a week later, the locomotive was quickly relettered and renumbered, given the number 10.\u00a0 WW&F No. 10 did not go into service right away, however, since it first had to receive a boiler ticket from the State.\u00a0 The first steam-up on the WW&F took place on December 18th, 1999.\u00a0 It saw several weekends of service in 2000, after which it underwent some boiler repair and retubing during the winter.\u00a0 It saw infrequent service from 2001-2002, then underwent an 18-month, frame-up mechanical overhaul in 2003-2004.\u00a0 Since that time, No. 10 provided faithful service up to and including our 2015 Victorian Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 WW&F #10 newly arrived, getting renumbered and relettered shortly before our 1999 Annual Picnic. \u00a0Photo courtesy of James Patten.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Steamed up in 2000: note the brass bands and the fake diamond stack introduced by Edaville. <\/em>\u00a0Photo courtesy of James Patten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Working on the new smokebox and smoke stack during the 2003-04 rebuild. Photo courtesy of Stephen Hussar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many videos have been posted on YouTube of WW&F locomotive No. 10 in operation.\u00a0 Here is a sampling:<\/p>\n