by CPF66
I think there are still a bunch of washouts north of Bartlett, which is likely why they are going to restart the Bartlett runs.
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1 Conway Branch Planning Group. The department of transportation, bureau of rail and transit, and the bureau of trails shall jointly meet, in consultation with the executive councilor from district 1, a member of the house public works highway committee, a member of the senate capital budget committee, a selectman or their appointed agents from the towns of Ossipee and Madison, and a representative from the New Hampshire Northcoast railroad, to formulate a plan for the best public use of a portion of the so-called "Conway Branch" between rail crossing in Center Ossipee/Moultonville Road to the rail crossing at Route 113 in Madison and to explore the feasibility of snowmobiling, walking, and biking on the existing rail corridor. The rail division shall explore the costs and income related to the removal of the rail and ties where necessary to provide a level and safe surface for recreational activity on the existing trackbed. The group shall explore funding any trail improvements from private donations, grants and/or from the sale of the existing steel rails. The 2 bureaus shall meet with this working group no less than 3 times before December 30, 2024, and issue their joint findings and recommendations to the public on or before January 2, 2025, with copies to the governor and executive council, the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, and the towns of Ossipee and Madison.Why is NHN so against expansion opportunities, north of the pit?
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
b&m 1566 wrote:This is what happens when an abandoned rail line sits around and nobody does anything to save it. The state has owned it for 23 years, they performed a feasibility study immediately upon purchase, they've issued 2 RFP going back to 2015(?) and not one response to those RFP's. Now all of a sudden the railfan community is up in arms over this shift in focus, really!?Uh, yes. I'm not astonished that nobody responded to an RFP in the last few years when their main interchange partner would be a company I wouldn't trust to run a lemonade stand. The purchasing of Pan Am by CSX is such a massive selling point for rail usage that companies are using it as a way to convince companies to switch or come back to rail (to some effect).