Steamtown National Historic Site is well known today, but what led to its creation? Who was F. Nelson Blount, and what exactly was his vision? Rick Kfoury, author of “Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story”, shares this unique history with us, debunks myths (#47's paperwork was not lost in a roundhouse fire), and draws parallels between rail preservation then and now.

The podcast: https://theroundhousepodcast.com/2021/0 ... steamtown/

The book: https://www.bmrrhs.org/steam-trains-of- ... euq8xre8rl

I ran across the"Monadnock Northern" during my student days at Boston University:
https://www.railarchive.net/randomsteam/mn15.htm