Lydonville Sub operations continued...correction...and now an addendum
- From: "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:48:25 -0000
"jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@...> wrote:
On Sundays the empty Hood car for the B&C was brought up to
Woodsville from WRJ by B&M #6051, the Sunday-only WRJ-Lancaster
turn...An interesting aspect of 6051 and its return counterpart
6056 was that it drew a CPR E-8 theoretically 50% of the time, using
the road power from the "Red Wing" that would otherwise would have a
long, wasteful layover during the day at WRJ...on weekdays (which
was Monday to Saturday in that era) it was the B&M's weekday-only
WRJ-Berlin turn, 4301/4308, that drew the "Red Wing" road power
usually. What's interesting is that although photos of a CPR E-8 on
the Sunday-only Lancaster trains are not uncommon photos of a CPR
unit on the weekday Berlin trains are unknown to me. Perhaps this is
the oft-stated opinion that most railfans did their photographing on
their day off which would be Sunday for most.
A follow-up to this recent post of mine...
As so often happens, as soon as you say you've never seen something
it surfaces. In this case, I recently acquired a used copy of the
s/c book "New Hampshire and Vermont Railroads; Classic to
Contemporary Scenic Action" by Ron Johnson (privately published,
1986). Photo #35 by the author on p.21 (top) in this book shows one
of the CPR's E-8As, #1802, on the return leg of the unnamed weekday
WRJ-Berlin-WRJ passenger turn. The caption date is 7 August 1957
which was a Wednesday. The consist is typical for this train:
baggage-express, baggage-mail (30' apartment), coach-smoker, all HW.
As information, the other weekday-only passenger train on the WRJ-
Berlin run, #72/77 and named the "Day White Mountains", laid over at
Berlin so would not have been a candidate to use the "Red Wing"
power. From what I've seen in published photos in the early diesel
era this train usually drew a B&M GP-7 although it might have seen a
B&M BL-2 on occasion as the BL-2s were not strangers to WRJ and the
New Hampshire North Country in the early 1950s.
JSH
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