Trail Extension Underway Work to finish the “last mile” of the Northern Rail Trail, plus a one-mile extension – all of which will be known as the Mascoma River Greenway – moved quickly forward this summer. Railroad construction company DeAngelis of Worcester, Mass., lifted rails and ties, preparing the corridor for grading and paving between…
We want to express our appreciation for your generosity in support of The Northern Rail Trail. Your personal commitment is incredibly helpful in our goal of restoring the mile markers along the trail. MILE MARKER DONORS 141/2 Clark & Happy Griffiths 140/3 Missing 139/4 Clark & Happy Griffiths 138/5 Schuster, Buttrey & Wing P.A. 137/6…
Ed Hiller of Andover, NH, repainting an original granite mile marker recently recovered and reinstalled on the rail trail. The opposite side reads WRJ 5. Ed has repainted each of the more than 20 mile markers in Merrimack Co., and will do the same when others are found for the Grafton Co. section.
Original granite mile marker being restored along the Northern in Lebanon. Distances to Boston and White River Jct. will repainted by restorer Ed Hiller.
We have a rare spotted turtle in the vicinity of next years RTP project in Enfield. I will talk with Fish and Game to straighten out the situation (hopefully). I think Jim Gerding ran into the same turtle a few years back that held up the operation for a year until I called and told…
NHDOT just finished redoing the drainage system in the Enfield Tunnel under Shaker Hill Road. They took all the material out of the tunnel and replaced with 1.5 inch stone, a silt screen over the rock and then covered with stone dust. They also put new under drains in the tunnel. Next they placed a catch basin …
We had a soil blowout last summer during the big rain on July 2, 2013. The ditches got filled in with dirt and water has been all over the trail making it very slippery. We decided to fix the blowout area with large boulders and do some surgical ditching to keep the water moving. The…
The trail looks great ! It was first leveled and grass removed by a bulldozer for one mile. Then the trucks started to roll in each carrying 22 tons of hardpack from Boscawen NH. It took 750 tons to complete the trail. There were some wet areas that took 6 inches of material. The rest of the trail…
The trail above a culvert has collapsed about a quarter of a mile East of I-89 (Riverside Parking area) in Lebanon. There is also erosion in the trail just East of the culvert that needs about truck load of fill. The culvert appears to be servicing two brooks. The water seems to be going through,…
There was one 10 inch diameter maple tree over the trail about hip high on the High school end of Blackwater which was cut up and one about 300 yards to the west that was leaning against a tree on the side of the trail but had top in trail. I gave it a hair cut…
