while driving home from brattleboro today i turned off onto woods rd in search of the drrr logging railroad bed. descending a streambed from the rd in search of the remains of the drrr bridge i found nothing... but turning around was this gen. i've floated these pics around and have received confirmation that this is indeed a boiler, almost certainly from a drrr/ht&w engine. if it is indeed a drrr engine it may even be the last extant piece, errr pieces, of equipment of the road. looks that the smokebox and firebox were removed but the butt straps and hole for the steam dome suggest it was boiler.
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Did we ever hear a music sweeter than the one that thrills, as it floats along the Deerfield, as it echoes o'er the hills.-E. A. Fitch
How we watch that little engine as it stalks across the plain; was there ever music sweeter, was there ever sight completer, than the coming of the train?