A Beautiful GP-7 in a Beautiful Setting

In the past two weeks I have written about the GP-7 locomotives on the fronts of those post cards. Today’s locomotive is also a GP-7 locomotive.

Instead of adding more information about the locomotive, I am going to share some background about the railroad line on which this train is operating. It is crossing the Moat Brook Trestle enroute to the station in Conway, New Hampshire. The railroad on which it is running is called the Conway Scenic Railroad. Our friends at Wikipedia tell us the following about the Railroad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Scenic_Railroad The Conway Scenic Railroad was formed by Dwight Smith, who was an employee of the Boston and Maine Railroad in the late 1960s. After years of negotiations, Smith was able to convince his employer to sell a portion of the Conway Branch, which it planned to abandon, to him and two local businessmen in 1974, and the Conway Scenic Railroad began that year. In 1999, the original owners were bought out by husband and wife Russ and Dot Seybold and on January 30, 2018, the railroad was sold again to Profile Mountain Holdings Corp. Today, the railroad operates over two historic railway routes: a line from North Conway to Conway that was formerly part of the Conway Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and a line from North Conway through Crawford Notch to Fabyan that was once part of the Mountain Division of the Maine Central Railroad. The Conway line is owned by Conway Scenic and leases the Mountain Division that is owned by the State of New Hampshire. The railroad's main terminal is in historic downtown North Conway in the Mount Washington valley. The North Conway station complex has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. The railroad operates passenger trains out of its station in North Conway Village year-round. The railroad also operates the Mountaineer train from North Conway, through Crawford Notch up to Fabyan Station from May through November each year.

The photo on the post card was provided by Dennis Adams and published by Mary Jayne’s Railroad Specialities in 1997.