Silver Lake
Railroad

Silver Lake Railroad

The Railroad Report

Early July

  The SLRR is now open and I’m excited! J Our little railroad just gets better and better every year and this year the area is looking fantastic! This year we’ve added Friday night trains! Friday night trains will depart the depot at 5:30 and 6:30PM. Our diner will be open Fridays from 4PM to 8PM. We hope the Friday night events will grow into a popular outing for the railroad. Time will tell!

Our complete schedule for the trains this year is Friday, 5:30, 6:30 PM, Saturday 12, 1, 2, 3, 5:30, 6:3 0PM and Sunday 12, 1, 2, 3 PM. Our diner hours are Friday 4PM to 8PM, Saturday 12PM to 8PM, and Sunday 12PM to 5PM. We will be refurbishing our diner page in the next few weeks. I keep prolonging this, but I’ll get to it.

We have been busy lately in the paint department. This past week we painted the maroon entranceways to the diner and north and south excursion train loading platforms. We are currently giving our blue A6 a much-needed fresh coat of paint. It will look fantastic when completed and our mileposts are almost complete. B127 and B128 are done and B129 is left. It’s cool to see this progress, and serves as more eye candy for excursion train passengers. One of the more time consuming projects was repainting our Silver Lake Railroad white X sign. This is up by the freight house. The paint was peeling and it was in disrepair. It now looks fantastic!

Professional photographer Kristin Woodman came up and took some fantastic photos for us over the 4th of July weekend! They are on facebook and here is the link http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.245771568771937.79420.165182730164155.

In recent news the local paper the Mountain Ear wrote a terrific little article about us. The article is on page eight. Take a look at it via http://www.newhampshirelakesandmountains.com/pdf/MTN.2011.07.07.pdf. We now anticipate a busy weekend this weekend! We want to thank Rachel Brown for that awesome article!

That’s all for now folks! We’re open so come pay us a visit and we hope to see you soon!

As always thanks for reading the Railroad Report and is there are any questions or comments please send me an email via silverlakerr@yahoo.com!

Will Scopa

SLRR Volunteer

PS. Thanks to Hunt and Caitriona for allowing us to publish this from your porch