A chase and cab ride on the New England Southern between Manchester and Concord,NH on 05/01/1992. Video by Richard 'Moose' Ouellette. If you like our stuff, Please comment and/or subscribe!
This is by far one of the BEST train videos I have ever seen! The quality is amazing for the time period. I was not expecting all of the different angles! It is obvious the photographer knew the crew which makes it even more personal. Well done!!!
Just seeing this video! Good to know while a lot of customer have dropped off, Bow power plant and Blue seal feed are still customers. Among others. Also the NES railroad sold to the Vermont Railroad in 2020 but they’ve kept the name. VRS is a good rr and surely will try and build traffic. Nice video!
Glad I stumbled upon this video. My grandfather lived just outside of Concord, and passed in 87. My dad would take me down to the yard all the time when we were up there, and we'd hang out for hours watching NEGS switching. Great memories!
Man is it amazing how much this area has changed back then. NEGS is gone, areas that were over grown then are cleared out now, and vise versa. Solid bearing trucks on that BAR covered hopper in 1992? That sure is strange.
Nice vid. I spent some time riding these old geeps when I worked for the Chicago and northwestern. At the 14:05 mark, looking at those old "barstool" seats brings back uncomfortable memories. At high speeds or at low speed on wobbly rail, those seats SUCKED. And don't let the seat be loose. Forget it. It's all you can do to stay seated on the damn thing. But I had a BLAST riding those old engines. Big fun.
Yes they are, but not a lot of traffic, there are unit coal trains that run to Bow,NH off of Norfolk Southern and the Providence & Worcester. Other then that the occasional local.
There used to be 4 lines into and out of Concord, New Hampshire yard. I can remember it as a full freight yard in the 60's with 6 scheduled freights a day, now it's a shopping center. Back in the steam era Concord shops built everything from passenger cars to freight cars and rebuilt locomotive's at the Concord Shops. Time changes and unfortunately business goes where labor is cheaper hence why so much freight business dried up as business moved down south. What I saw in the 60's was the last gasp of the old B&M as most but not all of the business they served was gone. I stand up at a hill overlooking the old concord yard and in my mind I see two switchers working first and second trick with one switcher on the third trick. A road freight every other day left concord to Lincoln paper mill with 80 to 110 freight cars each way a couple of Geeps 7's or 9's and if you were lucky 2-4 ALCO RS-3's. The last time I was in Lincoln you could still see remains of the old Lincoln paper mill existing in a small area south of where the plant yard was. It bites it to get old and look back at all the changes in the favorites spots in your youth. 1: The dead end branch to Lincoln, New Hampshire where there was a paper mill going full tilt with 700 employees. They were forced to close in 1971 by the EPA, all they needed was 6 more months to complete the under construction water treatment plant instead of dumping all the waste in the river like they had been doing for over 70 years. Now? Nothing but condos as far as the eye can see for skiers. 2: the line northwest to White River Junction where they interchanged with the Central Vermont and the Canadian Pacific. 3: the long gone Claremont and Concord to an interchange with the B&M and the CV. 4: the line south to Manchester and Boston The Bow power plant has been sold and the word is they are shutting it down, this is after they spent $600 million to put stack scrubbers on the plant so the emissions are the same as a natural gas plant and now they going to shut it down 5 to 7 years after the stack scrubber went into service. The line to Lincoln is owned by the state and is in no danger of being abandoned as there are several passenger railroads operating on that line from a successful dinner train to an very nice passenger operation out of Lincoln and another one out of Meredith, New Hampshire to a small freight operation out of Concord, New Hampshire. I miss the old days.
Indeed, from BAR 60-68 series. These cars were active into the 2010's in fact. They moved oats and barley from Aroostook County. Guessing this one was a load of oats.
This is by far one of the BEST train videos I have ever seen! The quality is amazing for the time period. I was not expecting all of the different angles! It is obvious the photographer knew the crew which makes it even more personal. Well done!!!
Just seeing this video! Good to know while a lot of customer have dropped off, Bow power plant and Blue seal feed are still customers. Among others. Also the NES railroad sold to the Vermont Railroad in 2020 but they’ve kept the name. VRS is a good rr and surely will try and build traffic. Nice video!
It makes me happy that this GEEP is still in operation. For those of you who don't know, 503 was acquired by NHN, repainted, and renumbered to 1801
I love to see older footage such as this. Class 1 railroads of today are just successful memories of what railroads used to be.
What a cool video. A high hood GP7 followed by a cylindrical hopper.
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@@TopHotDog thanks.
Glad I stumbled upon this video. My grandfather lived just outside of Concord, and passed in 87. My dad would take me down to the yard all the time when we were up there, and we'd hang out for hours watching NEGS switching. Great memories!
rpm2night Awesome! My grandfather used to bring me to Rigby yard in South Portland in the early 60's...Great memories for me. Craig
Your collection of Moose's videos are great!
Man is it amazing how much this area has changed back then. NEGS is gone, areas that were over grown then are cleared out now, and vise versa. Solid bearing trucks on that BAR covered hopper in 1992? That sure is strange.
love the roof view backing into Blue Seal
Nice vid. I spent some time riding these old geeps when I worked for the Chicago and northwestern. At the 14:05 mark, looking at those old "barstool" seats brings back uncomfortable memories. At high speeds or at low speed on wobbly rail, those seats SUCKED. And don't let the seat be loose. Forget it. It's all you can do to stay seated on the damn thing. But I had a BLAST riding those old engines. Big fun.
Yes they are, but not a lot of traffic, there are unit coal trains that run to Bow,NH off of Norfolk Southern and the Providence & Worcester. Other then that the occasional local.
nhrrman I found a Pan Am SD unit at the switch tower. Nice find.
Is it just me or does she have a slight list to port?
That’s Don Damore bending the iron that day.
Another great GEEP video you knew I'd be here.
I live half a stones throw from this line. They go by all the time.
excellent! You were lucky to have such a friendly crew. Do the yard and the industrial stubs still exist, or have they been pulled up?
www.google.com/maps/place/Concord+B%26M+Freight+Depot/@43.1758255,-71.5284812,157a,35y,138.94h,47.56t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x89e26a96154a8917:0x5a871a0a62528f1!2sConcord,+NH!3b1!8m2!3d43.2081366!4d-71.5375718!3m4!1s0x0:0xcc3dbae02b12a50d!8m2!3d43.2016189!4d-71.5317732
There used to be 4 lines into and out of Concord, New Hampshire yard. I can remember it as a full freight yard in the 60's with 6 scheduled freights a day, now it's a shopping center. Back in the steam era Concord shops built everything from passenger cars to freight cars and rebuilt locomotive's at the Concord Shops. Time changes and unfortunately business goes where labor is cheaper hence why so much freight business dried up as business moved down south. What I saw in the 60's was the last gasp of the old B&M as most but not all of the business they served was gone. I stand up at a hill overlooking the old concord yard and in my mind I see two switchers working first and second trick with one switcher on the third trick. A road freight every other day left concord to Lincoln paper mill with 80 to 110 freight cars each way a couple of Geeps 7's or 9's and if you were lucky 2-4 ALCO RS-3's. The last time I was in Lincoln you could still see remains of the old Lincoln paper mill existing in a small area south of where the plant yard was.
It bites it to get old and look back at all the changes in the favorites spots in your youth.
1: The dead end branch to Lincoln, New Hampshire where there was a paper mill going full tilt with 700 employees. They were forced to close in 1971 by the EPA, all they needed was 6 more months to complete the under construction water treatment plant instead of dumping all the waste in the river like they had been doing for over 70 years. Now? Nothing but condos as far as the eye can see for skiers.
2: the line northwest to White River Junction where they interchanged with the Central Vermont and the Canadian Pacific.
3: the long gone Claremont and Concord to an interchange with the B&M and the CV.
4: the line south to Manchester and Boston
The Bow power plant has been sold and the word is they are shutting it down, this is after they spent $600 million to put stack scrubbers on the plant so the emissions are the same as a natural gas plant and now they going to shut it down 5 to 7 years after the stack scrubber went into service.
The line to Lincoln is owned by the state and is in no danger of being abandoned as there are several passenger railroads operating on that line from a successful dinner train to an very nice passenger operation out of Lincoln and another one out of Meredith, New Hampshire to a small freight operation out of Concord, New Hampshire.
I miss the old days.
redhouseguitar blue seal still gets hoppers and Ciment Quebec goes too (both in Bow) not sure who else
10:23 that dryflo car was built in 1960. pretty cool.
Indeed, from BAR 60-68 series. These cars were active into the 2010's in fact. They moved oats and barley from Aroostook County. Guessing this one was a load of oats.
Hey Tom, I didn't catch that...i'll have to watch again, maybe it was a captive car. Craig
Thank you!
Nice machine sound
THANK YOU DETAIL VIDEO ON OPERATION ON SHORT LINE IN REAL LIFE DAY
Thanks bos
muy buen video amigo, saludos.
Nathan M5?
Peter at 6:58?
Roger on that
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neat