Chris,

It is unknown by me how many Bailey critters were built by the Bailey shop in Carver. No builders roster has been kept apparently, or perhaps if one was made, it may be in the hands of the family.

A few years ago I was fortunate to have a tour of the shop and to have been able to meet one of the family. A "Bailey" paint stencil (for applying the builders name) to the finished products was among things I was shown. The stencil was made of brass and may have been used on other manufactured goods within the product lines.

One of the Edaville USA employees told me that when he was a kid living on the property. his father worked for Mr. Atwood and used one of two Bailey cranberry bog critters on the rails at Edaville. From this account, we know that Atwood had at least two machines. Photographs at the Plymouth Historical Society show three early machines being demonstrated on bogs and each is hauling a tip car filled with cut grass and weeds likely cleaned from irrigation ditches.

In the late 1990's, there was one Bailey in storage by the Agway Building. Later I was told the machine went with other equipment to the collection in Portland. This Bailey was painted red, but I believe that the machines you are thinking of (when you were a kid) might have been the two Edaville "lokies" which are heavier machines, at least one built by Plymouth locomotive works.

I own one later model Bailey which had been used by Fuller-Hammond cranberries in Onset. My machine has a heavy frame, not constructed from a tip car chassis as the early models were.

Others likely still exist and may be in storage. One of the cranberry growers has three Brookville's which as I'm sure you know are heavier (1 1/2 tons) than the Bailey's.

The W.W. & F. Railway Museum in Alna, Maine also has a Brookville "cranberry bog special" as they were originally marketed.

Hope this info has been helpful.