Edaville Railroad It's a narrow gauge steam railroad that winds through the cranberry bogs and woods of Carver, MA. Passengers are taken around a large loop of track with Christmas scenes and displays with over a million lights in the comfort of steam heated coaches.
The adventure starts with a fifty mile winter ride from Boston culminating in unlit, winding back roads. Arriving at the park, you'll discover a large windswept parking lot packed with cars. After finding a spot and marveling at the expansive parking facility and apparently strengthening winds, you find the line to get in.
After a half hour or so of waiting in line on the tundra, you hand over your money with fingers numb from the cold. Luckily, not as numb as your children's fingers after the petting zoo goat has eaten their mittens. Now that you're in the park, it's time to get in line for the train. It's always fun chatting about the cold and wind while you wait for the train.
Now it's your turn to get in the steam heated coach. Good thing, too, since you can't feel your feet anymore. Oh, that's warm! So you and about a hundred of your new friends find seats in the really rather hot steam heated coach. Wearing coats, hats, and gloves. In a rolling sauna. With much tooting, whistling, and clanking you're soon on your way...and developing a heat rash.
The conductor announces that Rudolph and Santa are on the right side of the train. There's so much condensation on the windows all you see is a red glow. A few people make feeble attempts to wipe the glass, but the heat is sapping their strength. Now its Frosty the Snowman on the left. To you it's a white glow.
When the train arrives back at the station, you spill out into the cold air drenched in sweat and gasping for breath.
That's how we do it here.
Hugs, Devlyn
