Springfield, Vermont, is a small town on the western side of the Connecticut River, with the state of New Hampshire in the east. Just 14 miles south along Highway 91 is the town of Bellows Falls, where F. Nelson Blount's famous Steamtown USA museum was originally located. Though Springfield is a small town (with its population not yet cracking 10,000 people), its railroad history is rich with both streetcar and heavy rail operations. One of the biggest names out of that region is the Springfield Terminal Railway, which came to prominence as the operations wing of the Guilford Rail System (now Pan Am Railway), but originally started out as yet another boom-town trolley. On today's Trolley Thursday, let's board the little Springfield Electric Railway and find out why this legendary line deserves to be remembered.
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
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