The February event include the club's Annual Business Meeting and Terry Harper's presentation on "Ghost Train of the Allagash"
Annual Business Meeting
The 470 Railroad Club By-laws specify that our Annual Meeting must be held in February of each year. This year, our Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Membership Meeting on February 21, 2024 at 7:00 P.M. There will be three agenda items for this meeting:
1.The club’s financial statement for the past year will be reviewed
2. The review of activities done by the club in regards to restoring and maintaining our equipment at North Conway.
3. The election of Trustees for 2024. The By-laws require that the Board of Trustees consists of 9 members, each elected for a period of three years. These Trustees are in three classes, with three members elected each year. We also will be electing three Alternate Trustees, who serve for one year each. All current members of the Board are willing to continue serving on the board and therefore the Board is nominating them for re-election. They are:
TRUSTEES - Class of 2024 (serving until 2027): Len Bachelder, George Small and Roger Tobin
ALTERNATE TRUSTEES (serving until 2025): Cory Fothergill, Dan Small and Eric Grover.
Nominations will also be accepted “from the floor” by a method that will be explained at the start of the meeting. Any member in good standing may be nominated with his or her permission.
The Ghost Train of the Allagash by Terry Harper
Today they are known as the “Ghost Train” of the Allagash-two standard gauge steam locomotives rusting away since 1933 in a small clearing in the heart of Maine’s Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Situated fifty miles from the nearest railhead, surrounded by a sea of spruce, the 13-mile-long Eagle Lake & West Branch Railroad is truly a railroad from nowhere with a fascinating story to tell. Drawing on over 30 years of research of primary source material including corporate documents, first person accounts, period photographs, and boots on the ground, Historian Terry Harper will guide us on a journey exploring the remarkable story of the Eagle Lake & West Branch Railroad, the people who built and worked on it and herculean efforts to preserve the locomotives and their place in the mechanization of Maine’s early lumber industry. Terry has a deep interest in the early mechanization of Maine’s logging industry. He is a member of the Board of Directors and a volunteer at the Maine Forest & Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine and particularly enjoys maintaining and demonstrating the Museum’s collection of steam and gasoline powered Lombard Log Haulers and Tractor-Trucks.
The attached video contains both the Annual Meeting and the Ghost Train Presentation
470 Business Meeting and Ghost Train Presentation
