May Membership Meeting - Working as a Transportation Safety Analyst by Bernie Kennedy

 This month’s program is being done by Bernie Kennedy. In Bernie’s professional career he works as a Transportation Safety Analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center based in Cambridge, MA. In his spare time he also works as a Railroad Conductor with Patriot Rail Company’s Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad in Meredith, NH. Bernie will present an overview of his journey to becoming a Transportation Safety Professional and a highlight of some of his current projects.

Transportation Safety by Bernie Kennedy

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April Membership Meeting - Cape Cod Railroad, Virginia with CSX, Amtrak, along with the Valley and Strasburg Railroads by Matthew Betzner

 The presenter is Matthew Betzner who will take us on a photo journey featuring railroading on Cape Cod, including highlights from three Cape Cod Railfan Day events. We’ll head to Virginia to watch CSX, Amtrak, and Virginia Railway Express trains along the former RF&P, plus visit two steam tourist railroads, share highlights from chartered trips on the Valley Railroad, and finally look back at a day along the Strasburg Railroad featuring N&W #611

April Membership Meeting

March Membership Meeting - The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad on March 19, 2025 - presentation starts at 32 minutes into the video

 

 The Bridgton & Saco River Railroad is very excited with our project to return the narrow-gauge railroad to Bridgton, Maine. If you are looking for a part of the B&SR or Bridgton &Harrison story, we will cover it. Our team will be presenting the basic history of the B&H along with the history of what our organization is and what we intend to establish in the town of Bridgton. Our team is constantly working very hard to upload images and data, including technical information regarding locomotives and cars, to our website, https://bridgtonrailroad.org/, and as a result many pages are still works in progress!

Bridgton and Saco River RR

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The Kennebec Central Railroad from Randolph, Maine and the Togus VA Hospital

 The Kennebec Central Railroad was a 2 ft narrow gauge railroad operating between Randolph and Togus, Maine. The railroad was built to offer transportation for American Civil War veterans living at Togus to the nearby City of Gardiner.

This set of history posters can be found at the VA Hospital in Togus, Maine

Construction

   

Further details can be found at
https://transportationhistory.org/2020/07/23/this-railroad-in-maine-served-as-an-important-transportation-link-for-military-veterans/
and at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennebec_Central_Railroad

                                                

Northern New England Steam Railroading History and Museums

 Rick Kfoury will be presenter for this month’s program. He is the President of the Boston and Maine Historical Society, and has done a program or two in the past. 63 years ago, in 1962, F. Nelson Blount’s Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad thundered out of Keene on the Boston & Maine Railroad’s Cheshire Branch, briefly returning The Elm City to the nostalgic era of steam railroading. Meanwhile, plans for the largest steam railroading museum in the United States, Steamtown U.S.A., bubbled to the brink of possibility for Keene - only to be extinguished by red tape and political delays. Rick Kfoury, president of the B&MRRHS and author of 'Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story', will examine Keene’s last chance for railroad prominence with photographs, documents, 8mm film, and in-person accounts."

Northern New England Steam Railroading

The presentation starts at about 48 minutes into the video.

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Mid-Atlantic Railroading in the early to mid-1980s including Conrail and connecting lines by Bradon Kulik

 Mid-Atlantic (NY/NJ/PA/Delaware) railroading in the early to mid-1980s with an emphasis on Conrail as well as connecting lines, presented at the January 2025 Membership Meeting of the 470 Railroad Club.

Mid-Atlantic Railroading by Brandon Kulik

The presentation starts at about 15 minutes.  

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Locomotive Restoration by the 470 Railroad Club, presented by Eric Grover and Jackson Small on December 18, 2024

 This month ‘s meeting is being done by program coordinators Eric Grover and Jackson Small on the club’s equipment. Have you ever wondered about what it takes to restore a diesel locomotive? In this presentation we are going to give an in-depth view of the restoration projects that the 470 club has completed over the past few years. We will cover the history of these locomotives and the process that it took to restore them. We will look at the skill and craft that is needed to make these locomotives look brand new. It’s neither easy nor clean, but it’s a job that skilled volunteers do because of the love and passion they have for railroad history. So, join the 470 club in a review of its restoration projects completed in the last few years and get an inside look at what it takes to make something old new again.

Locomotive Restoration by the 470 Railroad Club