Trains and Railroads

Great American symbol lives on in Gilford (The Citizen of Laconia)

9 Jul 2008

COURTESY PHOTO A 1989 PHOTO from the collection of Ernie Bolduc captures some of the buffalo that have lived over the years on the Bolduc Farm in Gilford.

Land of lore: History and legend survive around Ovando (Missoulian)

9 Jul 2008

The tradition of hanging boots from a ponderosa pine a couple miles off Highway 200 near Ovando is said to have started when loggers finished for the spring break and pitched their worn-out boots into the tree. Today boots, tennis shoes, hiking shoes and cross-trainers hang from the Boot Tree.

Book tells of Charleston-Mattoon area’s rich railroading past (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

9 Jul 2008

MATTOON — Craig Sanders admits it. “I’ve never worked for a railroad, never been involved in railroading. But I’ve always been fascinated by trains all my life.�