Then and Now: Waiting for the morning train, circa 1900
William Marvel The tracks of the Boston & Maine Railroad reached Conway Village in 1872. The next year, while track crews worked their way across the Saco River floodplain to North Conway, carpenters went to work on the Conway depot. It set an architectural example for the North Conway station that would go up in 1874, but at a scale sufficiently modest for a working-class town. The station was located off the big bend in Main Street, below which the tracks and the street ran parallel for over half a mile. The two rail lines passing through Conway eventually sprouted six stations, and each vi...
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