Plowing Thru Intervale
The Conway Scenic Railroad's ex Lamoille Valley (originally Central Vermont) Russell snowplow 4211 punches thru the berm at the busy US 302 / White Mountain Hwy crossing at about MP 61.5 as they plow westbound on the old Maine Central Mountain Sub mainline. CSRR GP38s 255 and 252 providing the horsepower are right at home here having been built in November 1966 for the Maine Central Railroad as part of an order of 13 of the model which were the first batch of second generation diesel locomotives purchased by the road. 255 came to Conway Scenic in 2022 and still wears her Vermont Rail System red paint from her nearly two decade second career as Clarendon & Pittsford 203 after having being sold by MEC successor Guilford Transportation in the early 1990s. 252 meanwhile was the last one in service on successor Guilford Transportation, lasting more than three decades, and having seen her other dozen siblings retired and scrapped or sold. She came to Conway Scenic in March 2010 along with GP35 216 in a trade with Pan Am Railways for FP9s 6505 and 6516 that would become Pan Am's OCS power.
Village of Intervale
Town of Conway, New Hampshire
Monday February 17, 2025
Plowing Thru Intervale
The Conway Scenic Railroad's ex Lamoille Valley (originally Central Vermont) Russell snowplow 4211 punches thru the berm at the busy US 302 / White Mountain Hwy crossing at about MP 61.5 as they plow westbound on the old Maine Central Mountain Sub mainline. CSRR GP38s 255 and 252 providing the horsepower are right at home here having been built in November 1966 for the Maine Central Railroad as part of an order of 13 of the model which were the first batch of second generation diesel locomotives purchased by the road. 255 came to Conway Scenic in 2022 and still wears her Vermont Rail System red paint from her nearly two decade second career as Clarendon & Pittsford 203 after having being sold by MEC successor Guilford Transportation in the early 1990s. 252 meanwhile was the last one in service on successor Guilford Transportation, lasting more than three decades, and having seen her other dozen siblings retired and scrapped or sold. She came to Conway Scenic in March 2010 along with GP35 216 in a trade with Pan Am Railways for FP9s 6505 and 6516 that would become Pan Am's OCS power.
Village of Intervale
Town of Conway, New Hampshire
Monday February 17, 2025