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31-558: In 1975, the Boston & Maine Railroad Corporation filed to abandon its 73-mile (117 km) "White Mountain Branch" stretching between Concord and Lincoln . Recognizing the need of the on-line customers and the potential of the line for a sewer right-of-way, the State of New Hampshire purchased the branch and sought a shortline railroad to carry out operations. The first to assume this responsibility

62-759: A bend, or "bow", in the Merrimack River . The first census, taken in 1790, reported 568 residents. In 1874, the Concord Railroad passed along the eastern border of Bow. It is now the New England Southern Railroad . On September 28, 2019, hundreds of climate activists protested in Bow against Merrimack Station, one of the last remaining coal-fired power plants in New England. 67 people, who carried buckets signifying their intent to physically remove coal from

93-455: A large portion of the territory of New Hampshire for many years, until the final boundary line was established in 1741, giving New Hampshire more territory than it had ever claimed. These complicated lines of the two towns coming from two different authorities were not settled decisively until after the final separation of the two colonial provinces. The government of New Hampshire gave Bow the preference in its grant of 1727, and did not recognize

124-532: A number of other freight customers centered around Lake Winnipesaukee including the former Laconia Car Co. foundry, Allen-Rogers Mill, [[NESSIE, a combination of the railroad's early reporting marks, NES, and the nickname of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , the "Chessie System") provided freight service solely on the White Mountain Branch until 1984, when it entered talks with Penacook (an exception being

155-461: A week, to once, as result. The New England Southern made its final run to Manchester on October 16, 2010, after 25 years of reliable service. Following that run, the railroad set up a new headquarters on an expanded yard trackage on state-owned property, off Exit 18 of I-93 in Canterbury. In an ironic twist of fate, the shortline had been more or less relegated to its original form, operating solely on

186-663: The Hannah Duston State Historic Site. The right of way north of that location has been transformed into the Northern Rail Trail . Throughout the 1990s, the New England Southern continued to profit from multi-day-a-week service on the Manchester to Concord segment. Freight service on the White Mountain Branch had dried up except for one customer, 3M in eastern Tilton, and occasional equipment moves to

217-571: The Hobo and Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroads . The last freight customer on the old Northern above Concord, Rivco in Penacook, received its last shipments in 1992. In 1989 the railroad had started a passenger operation, the Granite State Railroad, which ran until 1993. The railroad also began to run trains of privately owned cabooses between Northfield and Concord with more occasional cooperating runs with

248-402: The Merrimack River watershed . The Merrimack River forms the northeastern border of the town. At the 2000 census there were 7,138 people in 2,304 households, including 2,045 families, in the town. The population density was 254.3 inhabitants per square mile (98.2/km ). There were 2,330 housing units at an average density of 83.0 per square mile (32.0/km ). The racial makeup of the town

279-492: The New Hampshire House of Representatives , Bow shares multi-member district Merrimack 23 with the neighboring town of Dunbarton , and Democrats currently hold 3/3 seats of the district. Like many suburban communities in southeastern New Hampshire, Bow historically leaned Republican. Over the past decade Democrats have improved, with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden greatly exceeding their statewide margins of victory in

310-528: The Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad to Lincoln . In 2002, the railroad began serving a new customer, Ciment Quebec, in Bow. This profitable growth business caught the eye of Guilford, which had been watching New England Southern build up business in the area. Guilford, which had inherited ownership of the tracks from the B&;M in 1983, rebranded itself Pan Am Railways in 2006 and announced its intention to discontinue

341-618: The Providence & Worcester Railroad objected. Access to trackage between Manchester and Boscawen had bolstered the railroad's yearly carloads from 250 to nearly 2,750, much of which was due to Blue Seal Feeds at Bow Junction, and International Salt in Bow . In the late 1980s the railroad was also operating a Reload on former B&M branch in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts for Georgia Pacific, and provided rail-plant maintenance and on-site switching at

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372-645: The St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad . In the summer of 1987, AT&T began laying fiber-optic cable along the Northern Railroad mainline from Concord to Lebanon , and the New England Southern was contracted to re-lay ballast along the right-of-way. Dearness had intended to run all the way to Lebanon, but at the time the Northern was not being used for regular freight service beyond Penacook, and years of poor track maintenance and neglect under B&M ownership meant that

403-512: The 2,304 households 49.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 81.0% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.2% were non-families. 8.6% of households were one person and 3.6% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.28. The age distribution was 32.6% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 27.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% 65 or older. The median age

434-407: The 2010 census, an increase of 9.4%. The town was granted by the authorities of New Hampshire to Jonathan Wiggin and others in 1727, and was originally 9 miles (14 km) square, covering nearly all the territory granted to Ebenezer Eastman and others by the authorities of Massachusetts two years previous, under the name of "Pennacook" (now Concord ). Massachusetts claimed to hold authority over

465-745: The Cadillac & Lake City Rwy. (CLK) harvest season's grain operations, between the UP and BN in CO and KS.) --and then in Massachusetts by Ch. 32, Acts of 1981 on April 12, 1982. Dearness had originally imagined this new railroad as a shortline system with operations only in Western Massachusetts, before learning of the NH White Mountain Branch situation, for which he submitted a bid. Dearness' railroad won

496-505: The Maine Central in 1981 and the B&M in 1983). In 1985 the railroad purchased its first two non-leased locomotives, an EMD GP18 , #503, and an EMD GP7, #302, from the bankrupt Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad . The locomotives were painted in a green and yellow scheme and went to work immediately. 302 was originally slated to work on the B&M trackage near Worcester with access to Gardner , but that deal fell through when

527-634: The Merrimack Station Coal Plant, which would continue to be served by the late B&M President Alan Dustin to assume switching rights in Concord. An agreement was worked out not only for switching rights in the capital but freight rights on the B&M's Northern Mainline between Manchester B&M and later Guilford coal trains. The New England Southern made its inaugural freight run to Manchester on July 14, 1985, using leased Maine Central EMD GP7 581, on loan from Guilford (which had purchased

558-577: The New England Southern ballast trains could only venture a bit further than the Potter Place station in Andover . Still, these historic runs proved to be the final time any trains passed through the communities of Boscawen , Franklin , and Andover; the track was removed by owner Guilford shortly afterwards. Today, the track ends just north of the U.S. Route 4 overpass in Boscawen, near the Merrimack River and

589-516: The New England Southern's lease, so that they might assume operations themselves. Pan Am filed with the Surface Transportation Board for adverse discontinuance of the lease in 2008, and despite a lengthy legal battle and the protests of every freight customer, the filing was approved on April 29, 2010, and ultimately, Pan Am assumed control of the Manchester to Boscawen trackage. Switching services then went from at least three, four times

620-662: The SD Warren Paper Mill in Skowhegan, Maine . NEGS also performed various maintenance-of-way contracts around New England, in MA, ME, NH and VT. Less fortunate, was a proposed significant aggregate move from Columbia Falls-Centerville, Maine area, west to deep water near Bucksport, over the former Maine Central's Calais Branch of Maine DOT, which fell through. A 1988 bid on the ex-Grand Trunk line in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, went instead to

651-553: The White Mountain Branch. Since 2010 the railroad has operated on an as-needed basis, serving the 3M plant and delivering the odd equipment move to the Hobo Railroad. Occasional special moves, including 2014 and 2018 contracts with the New Hampshire Army National Guard to ship military equipment to and from training exercises, have supplemented the railroad's income. In February 2019, an unauthorized press release

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682-542: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.151 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 391630327 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:49:58 GMT Bow, New Hampshire Bow is a town in Merrimack County , New Hampshire , United States. The population was 8,229 at the 2020 census , up from 7,519 at

713-880: The contract, and in 1982 the operating contract was awarded to the New England Southern, which began freight operations on September 3, 1982, using State of New Hampshire-owned ALCO S1 1008. The railroad also leased a GE 44-ton switcher , #2, also state-owned. The first freight run consisted of a tanker for Home Gas in Northfield , a boxcar for Blue Seal Feeds (H.K. Webster) in Lakeport , and another boxcar of casting sand for Arwood Manufacturing in Tilton . The railroad made regular trips to Rochester Shoe Tree in Ashland , Quin-T Corp. in E. Tilton, Blue Seal Feeds in Plymouth , Gerrity Lumber in Meredith , and

744-642: The sale was finalized and VRS became immediate operator of NEGS. Its sole engine (2555) was patched with GMTX logos and renumbered to 1505. Currently, the New England Southern operates under Vermont Rail Systems and regularly only on the state-owned White Mountain Branch in central New Hampshire. The railroad's sole interchange point is with Pan Am Railways at Concord, from which loaded cars come inbound and empties depart. New England Southern operated several tourist train passenger service over its White Mountain Branch. These included: Boston and Maine Corporation Too Many Requests If you report this error to

775-556: The site, were arrested by state police. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 28.5 square miles (73.9 km ), of which 28.2 square miles (73.0 km ) are land and 0.39 square miles (1.0 km ) is water, comprising 1.32% of the town. The highest point in Bow is Picked Hill, at 915 feet (279 m) above sea level , in the southern part of town. Nearby, Wood Hill and Brown Hill also top 900 feet (270 m). Bow lies fully within

806-635: The state could find a dependable and permanent long-term operator. Peter Dearness, a businessman, educator, and shortline railroader, who had a hand in founding the Massachusetts Central Railroad in 1975, approached the State of New Hampshire with a bid to operate the trackage with his newly formed New England Southern Railroad. The railroad was incorporated first in Nevada on December 22, 1981. (Dearness had been out of state working with Kenneth Coombs on

837-599: The title of the Pennacook grantees, and in the bill giving a charter for the parish of Concord, it was worded as "taking a part of the town of Bow," etc. Although Concord was granted and surveyed before Bow, its final organization was 38 years after it. Bow gained a victory over Concord in its original title; still it was obliged to yield over two-thirds of its territory to Concord, Pembroke and Hopkinton , establishing their final boundary lines at different times, from 1759 to 1765. The town's name comes from its establishment along

868-550: Was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.7 males. Bow is a part of New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district , and is currently represented by Democrat Ann McLane Kuster (D- Hopkinton ). In the New Hampshire Senate , Bow is a part of New Hampshire's 16th State Senate district , currently represented by Democrat Kevin Cavanaugh (D- Manchester ). In

899-456: Was 97.79% White, 0.13% African American, 0.10% Native American, 1.04% Asian, 0.29% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49%. For the 2015-2019 period, the median household income was $ 122,230. The per capita income for the town was $ 48,900. About 2.0% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 0.6% of those under age 18 and 4.2% of those age 65 or over. Of

930-516: Was published stating the railroad was going to be acquired by United Rail, a corporate conglomerate based out of Las Vegas . On July 31, 2019, NEGS ownership announced that the deal with United Rail had not been finalized, as was supposed to happen by June 30, and that operations were returning to pre-sale conditions. Then on May 10, 2020, it was reported that the Vermont Rail System (VRS) was to acquire New England Southern Railroad. In June 2020,

961-632: Was the Wolfeboro Railroad , which operated the line as their "Central Division" in 1976, but soon thereafter ended operations. The Goodwin Railroad, an extension of Weaver Bros. Construction, was created in 1977 to operate the trackage, and did so until it too ended operations in 1980. Following the demise of the Goodwin contract, the North Stratford Railroad stepped in as an interim operator until

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