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* [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98009&p=297290&hilit=Joytown+Hudson#p297290 "Joytown RR/Waushakum Hudson update", Pat Fahey, <i>Chaski.org</i>] | * [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98009&p=297290&hilit=Joytown+Hudson#p297290 "Joytown RR/Waushakum Hudson update", Pat Fahey, <i>Chaski.org</i>] | ||
* [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98334 "Woman Live Steamers , that Build and Run", Pat Fahey, <i>Chaski.org</i>] | * [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98334 "Woman Live Steamers , that Build and Run", Pat Fahey, <i>Chaski.org</i>] | ||
* [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=96252&p=280020&hilit=Joytown+Hudson#p280020 Some history on the Joytown Hudson, Pat Fahey, <i>Chaski.org</i>] | |||
Revision as of 23:00, 4 February 2014
Joy Town Railroad was an amusement railroad at Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, Massachusetts. The railroad was built and operated by Lester Friend.
Joy Town Railroad advertisement from "The Miniature Locomotive", November/December 1952
From "The Miniature Locomotive", July/August 1953
The following photos were taken by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.
Engineer Vachon with Joy Town Railroad Hudson. Miss Vachon worked at the Friend's Yankee Shop, and also ran the locomotive at Friend's Joy Town Railroad at the Topsfield, Mass. fairgrounds in the 1950s. Photo by A.W. Leggett.
Bill Leggett Jr. watches the train pass by.
Jim Leggett's grandmother, Myrtle Leggett, on the right.
Myrtle Leggett on the left.
