I have family near New Bedford, Mass. When I was seven years old my family did a great vacation up near them.
It was a great week. I got to hang out with my cousins, we visited my Mom's aunt and uncle in Fair Haven and while we were at their house, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and we watched it on their ancient TV. We visited the Battleship Massachusetts and I got my very first ride in a narrow gauge train over at Edaville.
-just maybe this experience would cost me thousands twenty years down the road!
The real point of my story is we stayed at a campground near Rochester. It was a great week, there was a pond there with frogs, I got to see my Dad light a campfire with wet wood using gasoline (he wasn't a patient man...,) and there was this really unique trailer on one of the campsites.
Even to a first grader (going into second), it was obvious that this was meant to look like a caboose. It was red, it had a cupola and end platforms. To an SR&RL fan, almost 50 years later, it's even more obvious that it was meant to look like an SR&RL long caboose!
Given the proximity I'd say somebody with a pretty respectable tie-in to Edaville built this thing so they could stay close by in style!
Has anybody out there ever seen it?
If I was a modern 7 year old, I probably would have snapped a picture with my Cell, but for me that finally came nine years later on 35mm at East Broad Top.
