In his book entitled String Too Short to be Saved, first published in 1960, now poet laureat Donald Hall recounts that in the summer of 1945, he and his grandfather picked blueberries on the summit of Ragged Mountain in Danbury, New Hampshire and when coming down, followed the remains of a narrow guage railroad abandoned about fifty years before. Not only that, but they came across an abandoned locomotive. The area today is developed for skiing so there is no chance the locomotive is still there. Does anyone know what happened and when?[/i]

I don't know where Danbury, New Hampshire is, but other than a couple of two foot gauge operations with German locomotives that began in the 1960s era, the only "real" narrow gauge I know of in that state was the Profile & Franconia Notch. It was a three-footer, up around the Bethlehem area, that was pretty short lived. One 4-4-0 from the line is reputed to be buried in the salty sands of Nantucket, the engine having gone there after the P&FN quit. We did a story on it in L&RP some years ago, but I don't know if it was really true. Reportedly, some residents were upset when searchers showed up on their lawn with shovels

Danbury is in the central part of the state, not close to Franconia Notch. Hall suggests that this was a lumber operation gone south. No mention of it in American Narrow Gauge Railroads, George W. Hilton 1990.

Oops. Sorry. Should have read on to the end of the book before going on line. In the Epilogue, Hall confesses to having made up the part about the rail line. Just another engine in the quarry.