by Steam
The amusement park in Wakefield was "Pleasure Island", NOT Treasure Island. It had a two foot gauge train ride which used leased equipment from Edaville RR. It also had (for a short time) the growing collection of full size steam locomotives owned by the late F. Nelson Blount, which became the nucleus of STEAMTOWN. From Pleasure Island they moved to North Walpole, NH, then Bellows Falls. Pleasure Island closed after the 1969 season, if memory serves, having lasted 10 years. The little steam locomotive (#5) used there, is now the #10 of the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington RR restoration at Sheepscot, Maine. Virtually nothing remains of Pleasure Island except the road of the same name which exits next to the Colonial on Rte. 128/95. There is a group called, Friends of Pleasure Island, which has collected much memorabilia of the former park.