Thursday, April 23, 2009

Silver Lake Railroad, NH

Restored Silver Lake, railroad station

Restored Engine


Riley Bros Diner Lyon MA


Bob's GPS took us on a backroad, Village Road, Route 113, Silver Lake. What a pleasant surprise, we found a restored railroad station and a display of railroad cars. This station was the former Madison stop for the Boston and Maine Railroad from the late 1800s until the line's abandonment in 1972.
The station has been restored over the period from 2002-2007, and much of its original features are intact. Silver Lake Railroad is open July through Fall offering a 40 minutes ride traveling through the Chain of Ponds area, passing lily ponds, beaver ponds, scenic valley and mountains.
In the near future a restored 1941 Sterling Riley Bros Diner will open serving ice cream.
POST SCRIP:
Will said...
I work at Silver Lake RR and i must say it's great.. the owner is great, and very generous. If anyone is interested in more information, the SLRR email is silverlakerr@yahoo.com ... *** we also operate last weekend in september, and the first weekend of october, and have the halloween train the second weekend of october.. thanks for putting up this site!!!

4 comments:

Nancy said...

very cool!

Nancy

Will said...

I work at Silver Lake RR and i must say it's great.. the owner is great, and very generous. If anyone is interested in more information, the SLRR email is silverlakerr@yahoo.com ... *** we also operate last weekend in september, and the first weekend of october, and have the halloween train the second weekend of october.. thanks for putting up this site!!!

Betty Pauwels said...

Will thanks for the additional information. I will add your address to my site.

Will said...

Hi Betty Will again. Here is the link to the SLRR site; http://www.freewebs.com/slrr1/

Also note that the diner will be opening this upcoming year!