Fall Foliage train heading south through Ashland NH on the snap-track. Originally, the track ran along where I93 is now, IIRC, when the state put in I93 in the 60s the track had to go, The B&M wanted to just abandon the line since they already abandoned the portion running from Plymouth to Wells River VT in the 50's and all they were serving north of here was a paper mill in Lincoln NH. But the state told them that they had to keep the line intact, and with the state's famous passion for rail service, they made the B&M pay for it all. Well, the B&M wasn't very happy about that, so they built this big long embankment, and rather than laying all new track, they just went to some other line they had abandoned, cut the rails every 30 feet or so, picked up the track with the ties still attached and stacked the sections on flat cars, then they ran it up here and bolted the sections together. It was the cheapest way to do it, and this section is very bumpy, but at least it's not abandoned.

Photographed by Rob Butler, October, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Rob Butler, December 16, 2004.
Railroad: Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad.

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