The Rock At The Loch
The Plymouth and Lincoln (DBA Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad) special dinner train from Laconia station has just about reached the south end of their run as they step on to deck truss bridge over the clear cold water of the Winnipesaukee River just upstream of the Lochmere Dam and MP 22 on the old Boston and Maine White Mountain mainline owned by the state of New Hampshire since 1975. This 2 hr catered turkey dinner train was operated in conjunction with Laconia's weekend long Pumpkin Festival and after making a short trip north just shy of Lakeport they reversed direction and ran south along the shore of Lake Winisquam to just south of this bridge at Silver Lake Road in Tilton before returning after dark.
The four car train consisted of two demotored ex B&M Budd RDCs and two ex Lackawanna MU cars bracketed by SW1000 1012 on the south and GP7 302 on the north. The 1012 was blt. Dec. 1970 as Burlington Northern 438 and was acquired in 2014 thru LTEX and is a regular on all their summer passenger runs. 302 was blt. Aug. 1950 as Rock Island number 438 and came north in 1985 when the start up New England Southern acquired it from the bankrupt ROCK's estate. It hauled freight on all the remaining ex B&M lines north of Manchester as NEGS 302 until 1998 when it was sold to the Plymouth and Lincoln, who promptly chopped the nose and repainted it maroon and silver.
Per Jay Gadon the old geep usually sits around Meredith Yard as a spare engine and has seen very little use. But it was kept serviceable and returned to revenue service from October 14th thru the 28th for the first time since October 2018! This was my first time seeing her turn a wheel since the late 1990s when my Dad and I rode behind her still in green and yellow on the NEGS's short lived passenger operation operation out of Canterbury.
To learn more about the history of this line check out the detailed caption with this image taken last year: flic.kr/p/2oXC9oc
Belmont, New Hampshire
Friday October 27, 2023
The Rock At The Loch
The Plymouth and Lincoln (DBA Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad) special dinner train from Laconia station has just about reached the south end of their run as they step on to deck truss bridge over the clear cold water of the Winnipesaukee River just upstream of the Lochmere Dam and MP 22 on the old Boston and Maine White Mountain mainline owned by the state of New Hampshire since 1975. This 2 hr catered turkey dinner train was operated in conjunction with Laconia's weekend long Pumpkin Festival and after making a short trip north just shy of Lakeport they reversed direction and ran south along the shore of Lake Winisquam to just south of this bridge at Silver Lake Road in Tilton before returning after dark.
The four car train consisted of two demotored ex B&M Budd RDCs and two ex Lackawanna MU cars bracketed by SW1000 1012 on the south and GP7 302 on the north. The 1012 was blt. Dec. 1970 as Burlington Northern 438 and was acquired in 2014 thru LTEX and is a regular on all their summer passenger runs. 302 was blt. Aug. 1950 as Rock Island number 438 and came north in 1985 when the start up New England Southern acquired it from the bankrupt ROCK's estate. It hauled freight on all the remaining ex B&M lines north of Manchester as NEGS 302 until 1998 when it was sold to the Plymouth and Lincoln, who promptly chopped the nose and repainted it maroon and silver.
Per Jay Gadon the old geep usually sits around Meredith Yard as a spare engine and has seen very little use. But it was kept serviceable and returned to revenue service from October 14th thru the 28th for the first time since October 2018! This was my first time seeing her turn a wheel since the late 1990s when my Dad and I rode behind her still in green and yellow on the NEGS's short lived passenger operation operation out of Canterbury.
To learn more about the history of this line check out the detailed caption with this image taken last year: flic.kr/p/2oXC9oc
Belmont, New Hampshire
Friday October 27, 2023