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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 15 in Keene |
Visitors to downtown Keene, NH today would have a hard time realizing that there was ever a railroad there, despite the heavily yuppified B&M roundhouse and backshop that still exists as a shopping facility. For a brief time in the early 1960s, however, steam trains returned to Keene, courtesy of Nelson Blount's Steamtown operation. Trains left from near the roundhouse (then a screw factory, but retaining the turntable), proceeding north to Westmorland, NH. The following year, they left from the North Walpole, NH roundhouse and went south instead. Here's the much-traveled 2-8-0 15 in downtown Keene, in 1962: http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2004021022192615313.jpg&bydate%3A7 ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | David Woodbury [ Thu Feb 12, 2004 8:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 15 in Keene |
> Visitors to downtown Keene, NH today would > have a hard time realizing that there was > ever a railroad there, despite the heavily > yuppified B&M roundhouse and backshop > that still exists as a shopping facility. > For a brief time in the early 1960s, > however, steam trains returned to Keene, > courtesy of Nelson Blount's Steamtown > operation. Trains left from near the > roundhouse (then a screw factory, but > retaining the turntable), proceeding north > to Westmorland, NH. The following year, they > left from the North Walpole, NH roundhouse > and went south instead. Here's the > much-traveled 2-8-0 15 in downtown Keene, in > 1962: Based on other photos in the Nerail series taken the same day, I'm sure the coach directly behind #15 is M,S&N #243, Mt. Sunapee now going under its original B&M number 1246. Rebuild progresses. davidwoodbury@adelphia.net |
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| Author: | L Beckman [ Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 15 in Keene |
> Visitors to downtown Keene, NH today would > have a hard time realizing that there was > ever a railroad there, despite the heavily > yuppified B&M roundhouse and backshop > that still exists as a shopping facility. > For a brief time in the early 1960s, > however, steam trains returned to Keene, > courtesy of Nelson Blount's Steamtown > operation. Trains left from near the > roundhouse (then a screw factory, but > retaining the turntable), proceeding north > to Westmorland, NH. The following year, they > left from the North Walpole, NH roundhouse > and went south instead. Here's the > much-traveled 2-8-0 15 in downtown Keene, in > 1962: Did number 15 ever have her headlight centered on the smokebox door? Seems to me I recall seeing such a photo years ago. Or maybe not... midlandblb@cs.com |
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| Author: | Dave Crosby [ Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | #15 |
As for the 15's headlamp... I can add a little to this. I have a postcard of the 15 on its "Final Run" during a railfan weekend in 1973 and it does indeed have a center mounted headlight. Its crudely lettered "Steamtown RR" as opposed to the "Monadnock Northern" and "Green Mountain" lettering she wore in years previous. I may be mistaken, but the 15 I believe was out of service a few years before this event and suffered some sort of mechanical problem when returned to service in '73. I remember one of the Steamtown folks telling me about it, it might have been a dry pipe collapse or a tube let go, somehting like that ended its operation. While eventually re-lettered "Rahway Valley" it retained the low headlamp until approximately 1996 when the good folks at the Steamtown restoration shop did a nice job in returning the engine to a more accurate appearance including the high mounted light. For the longest time the engine still retained a severley mangled back up light on the tender, damaged during the colapse of one of the Steamtown shop/sheds in VT. I'm sure others (Mr. Pincus perhaps?) can add more definitive information. Dave Crosby bing@epix.net |
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