End of the line for the AAPRCO special. This is the view looking towards Whitefield, from MP 5 on the NH&V. The AAPRCO had paid a fairly substantial amount of money to have work done to the track (note the fresh ballast), but an SLR sectionman that I talked to that morning, described the work as "camouflage". Evidently the Amtrak engineer agreed, deciding that he didn't want to risk his engines and train on such shakey track.

Photographed by Geoff Doane, September 2, 1997.
Added to the photo archive by Geoff Doane, April 13, 2004.
Railroad: New Hampshire & Vermont.

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