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After an encounter with a very territorial dog while driving down a rural Maine road to a former station site that caused me to abort the trip, I got to wondering, what are some of the unexpected hazards of our hobby of rail fanning in New England? I know that this isn't entirely New England specifi...

It is too bad that they had to dismantle both of those old wooden trestles as the were very unique, but they had become a huge liability issue in the more recent years I'm sure. The Bemis branch is interesting because even though it was abandoned in relatively recent years, some parts of it are alre...

Hey Everyone, I was in Yarmouth, Maine today taking pictures of the old mill remains and the old Saint Lawrence & Atlantic Station and had a few questions about the area. The GT tracks were very rusty and it's clear no train has run over them recently. Where do the trains that run through Bethel...

I apologize that this is not entirely on topic, but it does involve the CSRR indirectly. Last night I was flipping through the channels, and there's a show on Animal Planet called "Finding Bigfoot" in which they were investigating the area surround the Mount Washington for reporting "...

I had looked at the area on historic aerials before, and you're absolutely right; that website is a fantastic resource for exploring long lost rail lines. I have been roughly able to trace the remains of that area, and how the construction if I-93 affected both the river, and the former roadbed. I w...

Was there ever a formal stop or station located at Polly's Crossing in Ossipee on the former Conway Branch? Google maps shows it to be a very rural crossing on a dirt road, and it appears that there is nothing really around it. It's marked on most topographical maps of the area, including the DeLorm...

Yes the river was straighten out near the 93/25 interchange. The railroad bridge was located right where 25 is today. The best way to see it, is go to historicaerials.com Thanks for the information! I had been trying to locate any traces of this long lost bridge, but figured it was probably complet...

Last weekend, my fiancée and I hiked Mount Greylock, and we were at the summit around noontime. We very distinctly heard the horn of a train that was near North Adams, and the way the sounds played out over the next several minutes, it sounded like it was heading east. We then headed into North Adam...

Thanks Edbear! I drove over the Landham Road crossing earlier today, and you're right when you say parking could be an issue. there was really no good place to pull off the road around there, and getting down to the roadbed from the bridge also looks a little challenging too. I did check out behind ...

I saw a picture recently of a very rusty and long abandoned train signal on the former Central Mass line somewhere east of the South Sudbury diamond crossing. I was wondering if anyone on here knows the signal structure I'm talking about and whether there's a way it can bee seen from public property...

As someone who loves exploring abandoned (and active) railroads as well as being active outdoors. I do find that rail trails are often the best of both worlds. While I agree that some rail trails do not give the history of the former rail line as much focus as they probably should, it does make it m...

According to the most recent edition of "Lost Railroads of New England", the Whitefield-Littleton segment of the old B&M White Mountains division is listed as out of service. From a few random Google street view images, it looks like most of the tracks have been removed at grade crossi...

That's another thing that seems to have changed in regard to fantrips. I remember as a teenager, reading old issues of "Rollsign" magazine from the late 1970s and early 1980s that showed pictures of amazing fantrips. watertown, Arborway, exploring abandoned stations, tunnels, and yards all...

I think the disappearance of so many pieces of history in a relatively short time is what did it for me. The original Boeings were always interesting to ride, and the re-builds were never quite as exciting. I also fogot about the elevated Green Line along Causeway St. that was torn down too. Even th...

This is something that I've been thinking about over the recent years as I have been a Boston area resident for my whole life. It seems that in the mid to late 1990's, when I was doing most of my active MBTA railfanning, the system had lots of interesting quirks and historical items to explore. Thin...