Hanover & Norwich Station
Here's another Station Saturday offering, the last one from this gloomy but fun summer Saturday chase. This line must have among the highest percentage of surviving passenger stations still in their as built locations as almost any line in New England. I should tally it up sometime as I can think of a few others that could be in the running (the New Haven Berkshire Line comes to mind) but the Conn River sure might take the prize.
Anyway a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR) at MP L99 on WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision, the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction.
They are passing the former Boston and Maine Hanover-Norwich Station which dates from 1884. It is so named because it sits right across the river from Hanover, NH and was the primary station serving students and faculty of Dartmouth College in Hanover. To learn more about this station and the historic but largely forgotten village of Lewiston check out this nice link:
oldroadsuppervalley.weebly.com/home/change-in-the-norwih-...
Norwich, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024
Hanover & Norwich Station
Here's another Station Saturday offering, the last one from this gloomy but fun summer Saturday chase. This line must have among the highest percentage of surviving passenger stations still in their as built locations as almost any line in New England. I should tally it up sometime as I can think of a few others that could be in the running (the New Haven Berkshire Line comes to mind) but the Conn River sure might take the prize.
Anyway a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR) at MP L99 on WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision, the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction.
They are passing the former Boston and Maine Hanover-Norwich Station which dates from 1884. It is so named because it sits right across the river from Hanover, NH and was the primary station serving students and faculty of Dartmouth College in Hanover. To learn more about this station and the historic but largely forgotten village of Lewiston check out this nice link:
oldroadsuppervalley.weebly.com/home/change-in-the-norwih-...
Norwich, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024