Green Mountain Railroad - An employee view.
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Follow along as we take a view of the Green Mountain Railroad from the viewpoint of an employee. It wasn't often that I got trackside after going to work for the railroad but just for a couple short days I made it a point to do so. We first take a look at one of the westbound trainloads of flyash from the power plant in Montville, CT. We then head to the North Walpole, NH roundhouse where we watch the action in getting ready for a Green Mountain Flyer Fall foliage day complete with two locomotives and a big train. The turntable gets extra attention as we watch it from a perch atop a car in the yard and the crew gives each locomotive a full 360 degree spin just to show it off. We cap off the visit for a behind the scenes look inside the agents office in the depot.
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Awesome video! Miss my hometown railroad! I remember in the 90’s chasing the train in Ludlow from clo-pay to the station and meeting up with mark and Kevin. Those guys were great!
Great vid! Thanks. Love the Walpole yard. It's in a tight spot between the highway and the mountain!
Just a bit of history that Nelson Blount the founder of Steamtown was friends with the president of the Boston and Maine Railroad and was looking for a base of operations for his project Steamtown. He was offered the Walpole, New Hampshire engine house and yard for the bought it for the sale price of $1500.00.
The bargain of the century. B&M was able to get rid of a small engine house that was losing money left and right. Even included the original wooden coaling tower which hadn't been used since the end of steam but after digging out the coal pit where coal was dumped the hauled via a cable operated bucket to the top of the tower where it dumped its load of coal into the tower of roughly 2 to 3 tons per trip. The only item missing for steam locomotives was a standpipe to fill the tenders. Not really a problem as a 1 inch water hose sufficed and after they acquired the old Bellows's Falls branch of the long out of service line built two water towers one at the Steamtown site 5 miles or so from Bellows Falls and another one at Chester, Vermont where the passenger service ran around the train to return the train to the Steamtown station. After Nelson died in a private plane crash the railroad separated from Steamtown to become a shortline freight carrier still operating the passenger train under contract with Steamtown until finally Steamtown took over operation of the train themselves from the Steamtown site.
The Walpole engine house still looks as it did back in the 60's when it was purchased by Nelson Blount.
The first steam locomotive to operate on the old Claremont and Concord railroad was engine 47 ex CN 4-6-4T which was in beautiful condition until the ICC inspector showed up and discovered due to a roundhouse fire at its engine house in Canada there were no papers to prove she was ok to operate in the US. So it's fires were dropped and she has never run since.
I miss the old days.
Cheers!
I visited this location 2 or 3 times during the early 1960s, when it was the base of operations for Steamtown. I met Nelson Blount on one of those visits; he told me about his unsuccessful attempt to buy a Hudson locomotive from the New York Central.
Note the roll up doors, in Steamtown Days the old swinging doors and clerestory style smoke vents were still present. Just one comment to note.
@@Toledo1940 I read about such a thing myself somewhere, about the President and CEO (the late) Alfred E. Perlman, having absolutely no desire to save even one of their 4-6-4 Hudsons.
I work out of Bellows Falls and White River Junction.
Awesome! I was very happy to see the Humming Bird! As I recall that was the name of the train, hence the cars name. My family worked on the L&N for five generations. My father didn't want to work on the road, so that ended the line. It is also explains why the I live in NH and not AL. I've been by this yard I don't know how many times. I went to high school in Walpole and then graduated from with the first class at Fall Mountain.
Another very nice video..I watch a lot of videos..and I sub to a lot of channels..but, this kind of footage and this example of motive power is by far my favorite. Thank you for sharing this. Tom
Love those Hi-hood Geeps
It was a turntable demonstration.
There are photos out there. I hadn't taken any of it since the last repainting. It hasn't changed much except that it is a lot more weathered on the west side right now.
Nice video! May I please ask when this was filmed?
Late 80s to mid 90s would be my guess
thanks for the video, which reminds me, are there any current photos of the old Rutland Combine around? I remember riding in that car years ago on the Flyer.
What year did green mountain railroad used the Fred rear train device
your movies are great to watch, thank you for sharing. are you now working in rutland for the RR?
John
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@ 10:10 into the video where the pilot loaded #405 onto the turntable, why did he do a 360+ when he only needed to move it about 10 or 12 feet to line up with the outgoing rail? That didn't make much sense to me? Great video presentation btw. Did they ever get the employee who stole those items???
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