High Green Episode 20: The Memories of Loyd MacNair, Part 2
Hinsdale, NH, May 15, 1950. Train #73 nears Brattleboro, VT on the Northbound Mainline of the Connecticut River Line. 4224 A and B lead. George Hill photo, B&MRR PR Department (Hutchinson/MacMillan Collection, B&MRRHS Archives).
In today’s episode of High Green, we continue the oral history memories of longtime employee Loyd MacNair, recorded October 1987. Additional topics of conversation include various incidents and wrecks, memories of firing steam locomotives and working with early diesels, railroad operations on the Connecticut River Line, and much more.
Embellishing Mr. MacNair’s comments are authentic sounds of B&M steam, recorded by Preston Johnson from the record “Vanishing Vapors”.
