New Hampshire Central Railroad (NHCR) Discussion

Last week they replaced a crossing in Northumberland across from Ocean State Job lots. Rexford Construcion from Lancaster assisted in the job. LLPX2304 came north thru Lancaster at about 730PM with 20 cars they were mostly SLR boxcars with a few covered hoppers in the mix.

Noticed the rails are coming up between Colebrook and Stewartstown. Looks like they just need to clean the ties out for a new trail.

The state is taking up 5 miles of rail between stewartstown and Colebrook to change in for scrap $$$... They then are going to take that money and purchase a mile of 115lb rail to rebuild the line from the SLR interchange to North Strafford Shops, to allow move safe handling of the LPG cars they recieve there...

Cory

To bad there will never be another train to Beecher Falls but at least the money is going back into rail.

The ex NHN 1757 and ex FGLK 1751 reported on the way to Groveton tonight. (9/11)
The ball will be in the NHCR park on Wednesday....

When was the last movement or freight to Beecher Falls?

The line from North Stratford to Beecher Falls was in service until 1989, by the North Stratford Railroad (MEC abandoned the line in 1976, state purchased and leased it). The short section from Quebec Junction to Waumbeck Juction was abandoned in 1976.

No GP9s in Whitefield or Groveton, but the NHCR was firing up the GP38 today to go out this afternoon, more than likely picking up tomorrow or friday....

cory

Any word on the GP9's? In Groveton yet?

^From the CSRX Facebook page:

‎1751 & 1757 are coupled together and are waiting at Groveton, NH for pickup by NHC as of Thursday night 9-13-12.

I was in Groveton last night and indeed the engines are there.LLPX2304 was no where to be seen. They are down at the far end of the mill coupled to a long line of boxcars. For a Photo op,If you go into Groveton go past the Groveton Family restaraunt (great food!) across the tracks go right and they are down about 1/4 mile on the right. You can get good pictures right from the road. You are right along the tracks.

Per CSRR's fb page, the 1751 and 1757 will both be delivered to Hazens sometime next week. With this being said, they will not be ready for Railfan's weekend

LLPX2304 came North thru Lancaster at 830am with no cars. I would assume they must have brought the Conway Scenic engines down on Saturday afternoon. LLPX2304 just came thru Lancaster headed south at 1200 with 25 SLR boxcars headed towards Hazen.

Busy day in Lancaster LLPX2304 returned north at 430PM with two boxcars and 2 covered hoppers headed for Groveton.

bigfreight,
The two engines (NHN and FGLK) were sitting at the east end of that long string of boxcars in Groveton yesterday morning, so, if you didn't see them going south, then they must still be there.

Also, of interest, I heard the light engine coming north yesterday morning around 0915 as I was working on the floodplain just south of Groveton. As I headed south on Route 3, I found the engine stopped just north of the crossing (2nd crossing south of Groveton), and there were two cars off the side of the road. It looked like the first car may have stopped for the train but the second car didn't and rearended the first. Just conjecture on my part. Hopefully no one was hurt badly, as this is a 50 MPH section of highway.

All the best,
Fritz