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Woodstock Railroad 1863-1933 By Edgar Mead Woodstock to White River Junction
The Woodstock Railroad 1863-1933 By Edgar Mead Woodstock to White River Junction Vermont
Soft Cover
Copyright 999
63 pages
It was a Sparkling May morning in the year 1920, and a typical day's operations of Vermont's little Woodstock Railway - exactly 13.88 miles long - were about to begin. Down in White River Junction, the line's eastern terminus, a night watchman named Herbert Paddleford opened the doors of the two-stall gray engine house and stood for a moment bathed in bright Spring sunshine. To the north, he could look beyond the Central Vermont yards to a point where that railroad's tracks crossed White River on their way to Montpelier, Essex, and St. Albans. To the south, he could see the smudge of a dozen Mogul engines simmering at the Boston & Maine's West Lebanon engine house. It was 6:30 a.m. - high time for his own railroad's engine crew to assemble and steam up their charge for the 8 a.m. mixed train to Woodstock.
Fireman George Piper was picking his way along the dirt road that crossed the Woodstock line. At the crossing, he turned onto the track, then took a narrow cinder path to the engine house, which served as the railroad's mechanical headquarters and the permanent home for the two engines in service. Train No.1 this morning would use Engine No.3, the J G. Porter, a 4-4-0 built by Schenectady in 1905. It was named after the road's white-bearded general manager.
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