As exciting as chasing trains can be ... there are the "occasional" moments when nothing is running on the railroad one's next to.

Case in point: New Hampshire Northcoast. That's the lead to the Ossipee gravel pit in the right side of the picture. I'm on the left, reading AAPRCO's Private Varnish, though my copy of Robert Lindsell's Rail Lines of Northern New England (Branchline Press) made the trip, too.

On the right is Paolo Roffo, currently heading up the NERail Expeditionary Unit in Altoona, PA. He's passing the time with a copy of the Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts newsletter The Callboy.

The tranquility of this entirely posed picture will be shattered only hours from now as a rather intense thunderstorm worked through the area later that afternoon.

Photographed by John B. Mentzer, August 14, 2003.
Added to the photo archive by John Mentzer, February 24, 2004.
Railroad: New Hampshire Northcoast.

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