Conway Scenic Railroad
The Conway Scenic Railroad (CSRR) is a heritage railway in North Conway, New Hampshire.
The railroad runs a steam locomotive in the summer and one month in fall, and a diesel locomotive the rest of the year. The steam locomotive 7470 is now fully operational as of August 2006.
The excursions are of varying duration - either one of the Valley routes to Conway or Bartlett, or the Crawford Notch excursion. The Conway train is a 55 minute round trip, while the Bartlett train is a 1¾ hour round trip. The Notch train is actually two different trips: the standard Notch train which is a 5 hour round trip, or the Fabyans train which is a 5½ hour round trip.
The motive power for the Conway and Bartlett trains is usually an EMD GP7 locomotive, but sometimes it is an EMD F7 locomotive. The current motive power for the Notch train is 2 Canadian EMD FP9s (soon to be replaced by a GE U23B #21 and a GE B23-7). Occasionally during the summer the CSRR brings out New Hampshire's only standard gauge coal-fired steam locomotive #7470, an 0-6-0 that was built in the 1920s. The 7470 only runs on the Conway train, and underwent boiler restoration between September 2005 and September 2006.
Some passenger cars on the Conway and Bartlett trains are the dining car Chocorua, the open deck Pullman observation car Gertrude Emma, and a nice open air coach. The notch train has an open air car, a vista dome car (the Dorthea Mae), and a first class car (the Carrol P. Reed).
The CSRR is located in historic downtown North Conway in the Mount Washington valley.
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