Railfan trip to New England - 2

Hi, For our third day we had to make a choice - more P&W, Vermont Railway, Massachusetts Central, or New Hampshire Northcoast. The P&W would have required that we move away from Maine. Jim wanted to shoot the SD70s on Vermont and but that was iffy while on the Massachusetts Central the train would be heading north long hood forward. So we elected to go with the New Hampshire Northcoast.

When we arrived at Ossipee we attempted to get information as to the train's location from the quarry office at the north end of the railroad. While the gentlemen we talked to would not tell us anything, when Jim asked if he thought it would be a good plan to wait across the road from the quarry entrance he said it would. While we were waiting I noticed a red Ford Explorer with licence plate CPRY go down the private road to the engine house. When it came back out about 10 minutes later we stopped and asked about the train. We found out it had left about 45 minutes earlier.

Fortunately we found the southbound train just north of Rochester, NH where it had just finished working another gravel pit.

We managed to get to a location on the south side of Rochester.

The train beat us to Rollinsford but waited there for a few minutes (above and below) before

moving down to the junction with PAR.

In Dover the crew cut off their train and then ran east on PAR to get on the cut of cars they would take north (above and below).

Our first northbound location was at Somersworth (above and below). We were actually standing in Maine when we took the photos.

We continued north catching the train on the south side of Rochester (above and below),

Union (above and below),

Union Meadows,

Wakefield,

and Ossipee (above and below) across the road from the quarry entrance.

Thanks for looking.