Chester MA: 25th Chester On Track Event Along CSX - May 21, 2016

May 21, 2016

CHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

25th Anniversary Chester On Track

... located on the Boston & Albany (CSX)

Massive parade, Civil War, Blacksmith demos, CCC Camp, and early Irish railroad re-enactors. Train show & craft fair,1840 railroad station museum, in Historically Listed downtown. Garden tractor pulls; call to participate, 'one-lung' steam & gas engine demos, classic cars, duck race, petting zoo, bounce house, a number of 1920's-era freight cars, including wooden caboose, and 'Children's Boxcar' on display. Hike to the first American series of stone arch RR bridges on MA first Wild & Scenic River, tour a working granite quarry and archeological stone works, historic displays, food & more! FREE (donations accepted)

Pan Am Railways FP9 Added to Streamliners at Spencer Event

(SOURCE:  Trains.com NewsWire)  More info HERE

SPENCER, N.C. – The North Carolina Transportation Museum and North Carolina Transportation Museum Foundation are adding Wabash E8 No. 1009 and Pan Am Railways FP9 No. 1 to the list of locomotives attending the Streamliners at Spencer event. The four-day event is being held May 29-June 1 at the museum’s grounds in Spencer. It will celebrate classic streamlined locomotives, ranging from Atlantic Coast Line E3 No. 501, built in 1939, to Norfolk Southern’s recently upgraded executive F9s. With the addition of these two units, the total number of engines attending “Streamliners at Spencer” is now 16.

General Motors Diesel, the Canadian subsidiary of EMD, built Pan Am Railways FP9 No. 1 in 1954 for Canadian National as No. 6505. The unit was used in passenger service for CN until 1978, when it was transferred to VIA Rail Canada.

VIA sold the engine to New Hampshire’s Conway Scenic Railway for use on the tourist railroad. In 2010, the engine was part of a trade between Conway Scenic and Pan Am Railways that saw the engine move to its new home in Waterville, Maine, to pull business trains.

Tickets are now on sale for the event. A special Preview Day, featuring the last of the engines to arrive, special movements, site preparations and more will be held May 29. Tickets for the Preview Day are $40 per person in advance. Tickets will be $45 on the day of the event.

Combo tickets and group discounts will be available, along with discounts for North Carolina Transportation Museum members and Norfolk Southern employees. Tickets are available online at www.nctrans.org or by calling (704) 636-2889, ext. 237 or ext. 257

Seashore Trolley Museum Needs Volunteers for Pumpkin Patch Days

The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk Maine needs volunteers for their annual Pumpkin Patch Trolley days.  Below is information provided by the museum for those interested in helping them out this year:


2013 PUMPKIN PATCH Dates are Sep 21 & 22, 28 & 29.

We still need volunteers from 9:30 to 3:30 on those days in a number of areas.

If it is your intention to volunteer, we need to know IN ADVANCE, by September 16th. (We will have sandwiches and sodas for volunteers, so we really need to understand who will be here, and when, for planning purposes.)

Please email Sally Bates by Sept 16^th  with the following info:

1.       Your Name, email, phone #

2.       Which day(s) you are volunteering for

3.       If you are bringing a youth or a group of youths under 18, WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY AND please understand that you must supervise them; they cannot go off on their own to work

4.       Which areas you PREFER to work in. 

These are the areas where volunteers are STILL needed:

                                                              i.      Monitoring and guiding children’s games  NEED MORE PEOPLE ALL FOUR DAYS

                                                           ii.      Pumpkin painting area: supervising, cleaning work area, restocking paints NEED ONE PERSON ALL FOUR DAYS

                                                          iii.      Face painting  NEED ONE MORE PERSON FIRST WEEKEND; NEED TWO PEOPLE SECOND WEEKEND

                                                          iv.      Shipping –  Check in at pumpkin patch - add tags to crates, check-in pumpkins, and provide ticket stub  NEED MORE PEOPLE ALL FOUR DAYS

                                                            v.      Shipping – Movers/Loaders at pumpkin patch - Moving pumpkins by cart or carry from field to platform, load mail car  NEED MORE PEOPLE ALL FOUR DAYS

                                                         vi.      Shipping -  Handlers on Mail Car - Loading/unloading the mail car, organizing them on board  Need one more person for second weekend

                                                        vii.      Shipping - Return/Unloading at Visitor Center NEED MORE PEOPLE ALL FOUR DAYS