#7? (c/n 43436) was built for Frontierland, Cherokee, NC in the early 1960's. Frontierland later became the Magic Waters Fun Park (waterpark), and the train (engine, tender, either four or six coaches, 1.5 miles of track) was put up for auction by Norton auctions on October 1, 1986, but it did not sell. Dave Barnhardt believes he was involved in selling it later. I believe it is now #7 at the Old Hickory RR, Jackson, LA which was being restored and running on air in summer 1996. It may be under steam by now on up to 9 miles of museum trackage. In the picture on the old parktrains website (before moving to Yahoo), it appears that the engine is being retrofit with a much longer and more graceful sculpted wood pilot. Note that Frontierland was not the same as Cherokee Wonderland which was nearby. Cherokee Wonderland operated in the early 1960's with three or four of Arthur LaSalle's restored engines which later went to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.

Another steamer was needed, so Rouse leased a small 2-6-0 from LaSalle that had been rebuilt two years earlier for the Cherokee Wonderland, a small scenic line at Cherokee, North Carolina. The Mogul, built by Davenport in 1910, had originally worked at the Levert-St. John sugar cane plantation of St. Martinville, Louisiana, as their No.3, the Albert. After it was retired and sold for scrap, Albert was purchased in 1959 by LaSalle and back dated to appear as a Civil War era locomotive fit the Cherokee Wonderland. It proven too small for that operation, so in early 1963 it was sent to Cedar Point to alternate duties with the Maude L. Although initially leased to the CP&LE, the Albert was purchased by the railroad in 1964 and last ran around 1990. Right now it is a static display in Frontiertown (CEDAR POINT,OHIO).

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