The roundhouse, turntable, coaling tower and yard at North Walpole was a facility lost in time. Traffic had dried up on the Cheshire Branch and B&M GP-7 #1563 was sufficient to handle any local traffic in the vicinity.Two years earlier, the Green Mountain Railroad obtained trackage rights from the B&M and the North Walpole complex became the home base of operations for GMR as well as the nascent Steamtown

Photographed by Ron DeFilippo, August, 1968.
Added to the photo archive by Ron DeFilippo, December 20, 2019.
Railroad: Green Mountain.

Ron DeFilippo's awards:

» Contact the person who posted this photograph.