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About the Engine
The engine, Edgartown (originally named Active
by the company that built it.) was a small 0-6-0 locomotive built
by Porter - Bell of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May of 1874. It
originally was built for the Chester and Lenior Railroad in North
Carolina, but was sold to the Vineyard, to replace the "dummy"
engine bought from Jerome Wheelock of Worcester that was too wide
to take the turns of the track.
Photo courtesy of The Stan Lair Collection
Active's headlight can be seen at the
Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA.
Photo taken by John Freeman,
courtesy of Matthew Stackpole and The
Dukes County Historical Society
Active, full of summer visitors, leaving
the steamboat wharf in Oak Bluffs.
Photo courtesy of The Stan Lair Collection
Active with engineer and fireman.
Photo courtesy of The Stan Lair Collection
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