Minuteman Tales: Logging Railroads of Lincoln, New Hampshire
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Logging railroads once cross-crossed the wilderness of New Hampshire's north country, making their mark on the geography, economy, and history of the region. in this episode we visit Lincoln, New Hampshire to discuss the history of some of these operations, as well as witness some of their operating remnants at Clark's Bears in North Woodstock.
To see these logging remnants, plan your visit to Clark's Bears at:
clarksbears.com
Wow. Spent two months in Lincoln working the woods. Spent the evenings listening to the steam runs on the Pemi moving the summer tourist train. What a place to move wood with Steem. Thank you for all the work putting this together.
Very nice and interesting video. For anyone who likes steam, the Clark's beautiful Climax should not be missed!
Fascinating video. The East Branch main line is now the Lincoln Woods Trail, which still has lots of old ties across it and the occasional piece of rail. It's known as the Lincoln Woods Death March to the hikers who have to traverse the 4 miles of straight flat trail before getting to the actual mountain.
glad to see people enjoying the new signage on the trains and around the station we put up
I personally put up the lincoln sign at 19:53 and the GSSR signs at 19:49
Great job, Rick! I live near the abandoned right of way of the Montpelier & Wells River, a former B&M affiliate. Always interested in anything B&M.
Great stuff. As a kid growing up in the 80's, my very first memories of even seeing any vintage or tourist train was in the white mountains. Its amazing how this region has done alot of preservation with the tourist rails. Also super interesting is the history of logging in the White Mountains. Though sad the logging trains are gone, after seeing images of what logging did this this beautiful region (and causing massive flooding downstream in Concord and Manchester), i'm glad its a thing of the past.
Been coming to Lincoln for 35 years, this might be my favorite episode yet. Such rich history very well told here. Thank you, as always!
This is another fantastic episode!
Great Video ! Thanks for Sharing !😊
Very good video as always. Thanks for sharing this interesting part of White Mtns history and for mentioning my father’s book on the logging railroads.
Very well done video on logging railroads.
very interesting video.
In heavily logged places, like Zealand Valley, you can actually see where the rail lines once were just by looking at the tree canopy. Younger growth trees in this area tend to have lighter leaves (such as birch) so the cleared right of ways appear as light green lines in a sea of dark, older growth forest.
However, the forest at large is irreparably changed. No matter where you go in the white mountains, you will never see original old growth forest. What we see today is a young forest lacking its elder trees. And the true titans are all gone
There is a section of old growth south of the kanc. And there is the big old spruce up in the wild river valley
@ fair, I should have said “you will rarely see”.
I had no idea about that spruce in Wild River! That’s super unusual, since WRV was *heavily* logged back in the day
@@jamescerone Theres a great book called "Natures Renewel" abour the huge fire up there which is the reason baldface is bald.
What a fantastic presentation!
Beautifully done presentation. You made the history come alive 😊
Thank you so much for this look at the history of the White Mountsins.
Well done From a Sandwich Resident!
There's a second very seasonal steam service in Lincoln over at Loon Mountain, who owns two steam locomotives, one functional. There's a non-functional Porter locomotive from the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad that now serves as a gate guard for the resort. In addition, there's a shuttle train that runs between the Governor's and Octagon base lodges on winter weekends & holidays; it's pushed / pulled by a wood burning narrow gauge steam locomotive. However, its not a native loco, it was originally constructed in Germany to work in a concrete factory before being imported to the US after WWII.
Did quite a bit on the wmcrr when i was young.
Very well put together video
Excellent work. Thanks
Great job on this!
I wore out my favorite Fabiano hiking boots on AMC trails in the White Mountains - the lower reaches of those trails run on the old railbeds.
great history
Another thank you for such well produced content. There is nothing broken and mangled with the B&MRHS! I also want to compliment you on your crack shooting. You're quite the marksman, Rick!
Dangit, missed an R. B&MRRHS!
You’ve never mentioned the Heisler locomotive! Is it really heavily that contracted not to say anything about that engine?
Though it's been at Clark's for many years, the Heisler is not an original locomotive to the White Mountains
@@bmrrhs wait, so they don’t store the engine at the park at all?
No, the locomotive is from West Virginia, not the white mountains, that’s what they’re saying
Cass WV has a Climax in service or will be soon
In Berlin around 2130 there is a train that runs most every night. I live not far from the train tracks where the train runs.
if you were going to recommend a branch line to model from Boston and Maine or even any past or current new england (Maine New Hampshire ) short line what line would you recommend ?
Hillsboro Branch, New Hampshire
hello B&MHS I recently purchased a B&M conductors' hat, and it had the original owners name inside on like an employee I.D. card of some kind is there any record of conductors that worked for the railroad I'd love to know what trains he ran the name in the hat is W.L. Robinson there's a date in the hat which I believe is 9/20/27 thanks hope you guys are able to find anything
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Nicely done! Great history. I just released an episode about Maine lumberman, river driver, and Civil War soldier - David Stone Libbey. The show gives a perspective on the river drives of pre-rail era - ruclips.net/video/vzFyuGvziAM/видео.html
"Tree slaughter" hahaha. Great video, always look forward to seeing new content.