Conway Scenic Railroad

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The Conway Scenic Railroad (CSRR) is a railway company in New Hampshire ( United States ).

After passenger and freight traffic on the Ossipee - Conway route had been discontinued on October 31, 1972, this section of the route was closed by the Boston and Maine Railroad . The remaining connection route at Conway to the Maine Central Railroad was taken over in 1974 by the Conway Scenic Railroad, newly founded by Dwight Smith, and on August 2, 1974 the first museum train drove from North Conway to Conway and back. In North Conway, Smith built in the existing facilities; H. a roundhouse with a turntable and the passenger station, a railway museum. He first bought a steam locomotive of the Canadian National Railway , 1975 locomotive 15 of the Maine Central and 1981 locomotive 1055 of the Portland Terminal Company as well as numerous others.

In the 1990s, the CSRR expanded its operations on the route from Maine Central to Fabyan , after regular freight traffic had also ceased on this. The museum trains cross the White Mountains via the famous Crawford Notch and also drive on the Frankenstein Trestle , the most striking bridge structure on the route. Some trains only go to Bartlett .

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Coordinates: 44 ° 1 '48.1 "  N , 71 ° 7' 11.4"  W.