Visitor Comments about this Photo:

Unfortunate but inevitable. It all came to a crashing end after the first strike caused by Guilford. The Pan Am and what passes for an economy of today are not our father’s railroad nor the boom times of the 1940’s-1960’s

Posted by Stephen Demboske on 2020-02-29 11:56:33

These days, the Nashua locals come north once, maybe twice a week, there were six coal trains that ran to Bow between Thanksgiving and the first of the year, and the "Northern Main" is a big branch line, connected to another big branch line. I am sure if there is any likelihood of extending commuter rail service to Manchester or even Concord, a modern signalization system would be installed..

Posted by Jay Gadon on 2020-02-29 12:09:30

This is a sad photo. One of these would look good planted in my backyard and standing tall! Signals seemed to have come full circle-in the days of oil lamps, signals were always on, they had to be, then came electric lamps, which were only on as needed due to power consumption/lamp burnout. Now I've noticed that most signals are on 24/7, and I assume this is due to the use of LED lamps, which use very little power and last "forever".

Posted by Henry Brown on 2020-03-01 06:03:15

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