This is a neat story. For a long time, I had Andover-Wilmington confused with the "wildcat" branch that runs between Ballardvale (just south of the station) and Wilmington center. In my commuter rail days I loved that routing because the Haverhill line stops at every fence post in Melrose
That is fascinating! The train in the picture looks just like George Stephenson's Rocket, the first passenger train in England, but then, why wouldn't it? 😂 Marvelous that a bit of the track was found. Anyone who's a bit of a train geek might enjoy actually traveling on a reproduction of a similar train at Beamish, the living history museum in the North of England. I rode it in the rain, which was as miserable as it sounds: https://youtu.be/H4kTHuB3_k4
This is a neat story. For a long time, I had Andover-Wilmington confused with the "wildcat" branch that runs between Ballardvale (just south of the station) and Wilmington center. In my commuter rail days I loved that routing because the Haverhill line stops at every fence post in Melrose
That is fascinating! The train in the picture looks just like George Stephenson's Rocket, the first passenger train in England, but then, why wouldn't it? 😂 Marvelous that a bit of the track was found. Anyone who's a bit of a train geek might enjoy actually traveling on a reproduction of a similar train at Beamish, the living history museum in the North of England. I rode it in the rain, which was as miserable as it sounds: https://youtu.be/H4kTHuB3_k4