Thursday, February 20, 2020, for the second time in about a week, Conway Scenic dispatched its vintage Russell Snow plow to clear the line to Attitash.
I arrived at the North Conway station at 0545 and was prepared for a chase of the plow westbound. Complicating my efforts was that I had a TV interview with White Mountain TV16 scheduled at 0845.
I cut it a bit fine, but arrived at the studio in ample time to chat with host Rob Clark on air. I don’t think too many viewers copped-on that I’d been freezing in the field making photos only minutes before stepping on set. (I’d changed hats in the interval).
Tom, yes Amtrak’s Montrealer carried the monicker of its historical antecedent. During prohibition, the cross-border Montrealer and its counterparts were often used to move illegal alcohol. As a kid I always knew 60 and 61 as ‘The Boot’.
Brian
Many years ago on my way to BOS, I chatted with an a/c based out of NHV. She referred to #60 and#61 as the “Bootlegger”. I can understand why, just wondering if you ever heard of any stories connected to that moniker or if there is anything in print such as a book or periodical on that subject?
Gosh, you barely nipped it at all!
Brian,
No, I don’t know what the phrase would be. As for New Hampshire, the only time I was “there” was when I transited through to and from MTR via #60 and # 61 many…moons ago!
So far as I know, it is (an Irish expression). Yet, I’m still not fluent in the local dialect and I don’t know what the local phrase for ‘copped on’ is in New Hampshire. Do you?
Brian…”copped on” ?
I thought that was only an “Irish” used expression!