Boston & Maine Railroad Concord New Hampshire Yard 1970s
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2009
- Video from my fathers 8mm camera of concord rail yard where New England Southern Runs From today till Guilford pushes him out. Look at how much freight and track there was then.
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I moved to NH in 1978, i remember how busy that rail yard was. They used to run up the Locomotives from the Bow Coal train there to refuel and crew change.
Tears in my eyes at 0:10. I know exactly where that is.
That’s behind the original telephone company building (Circa 1975) on the south side of Storrs Street. I grew up a few blocks away from that yard. My dad would frequently bring me down to the tracks to watch the trains. One day without warning, my father just struck up a conversation with some B&M employees and they offered us a tour of their caboose. I remember being allowed to climb up and look out the top window. There were employees inside smoking and playing cards over a wooden board which I would learn many years later was a game called cribbage. My dad was all sorts of fuc*ed up from Vietnam but he had a few shining moments as a father. This was one of his better days. I would have been five years old.
That caboose would eventually be put-to-rest about three hundred yards south of that spot in the grass next to the tracks. There, it remained, well into the mid 80’s deteriorating and eventually dying an undignified death after collapsing into two pieces.
I can’t thank you enough for posting this.
Cheers from Boston ☘️
What happened to some of the other videos on this channel? The Manchester to Concord and 1970s Cab Ride are missing. I liked both of them.
I worked in the B & M Concord yard in 1968.I marked freight cars for their destinations with white chalk. Rode the yard switchers and did whatever needed to be done. Fun job 53 years ago.
Not at all fun today everything sucks glad I am retired It's not railroading today at all. More like being railroaded.
Wow. Absolutely amazing. I live not too far from the old Concord yards. I've always wanted to know what it looked like "back in the day."
Good memories , it's mostly gone now, all the rail industry there used to be here, my local yard growing up in the 1960s-70s was Castle Hill in Salem,MA. 6 Swicthing jobs, locals and 3 main frieghts and Hundreds of cars a week to Peabody, Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Swampscott Quarry, Danvers, Topsfield, Newburyport, Gloucester ...
It's all gone but one shipper in Peabody !!!
Thanks for sharing these!
B&M=Boston & Maine. The B&M still live thought other railroads today like Guilford, HLCX, Kansas City Southern, and Canadian Pacific.
What I wouldn't give to be able to go back and see that sight, nowadays, you'd be considered lucky to see a couple trains a week, and the yard? Barely exists anymore, so much of those lines are gone, heck, they just abandoned the Horseshoe Pond stretch of tracks, the Penacook line is overgrown and torn up in some areas....
What once was....
Is that Route 93 in the background? In between the rail yard and the Merrimack River.
Dr_Cybered yes that is Route 93. But today u are in always stuck in traffic. Oh how times have changed.
F Mellon.