{"id":27454,"date":"2019-08-05T06:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=27454"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:13:32","slug":"yesterday-i-witnessed-history-at-north-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/yesterday-i-witnessed-history-at-north-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday I Witnessed History at North Conway."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday, August 4, 2019 was the 45th<\/sup>anniversary of Conway Scenic Railroad\u2019s first revenue run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To celebrate this event and to honor Conway Scenic\u2019s founder, Dwight Smith, Conway Scenic\u2019s president and general manager David Swirk presided over a short ceremony at the North Conway station to name locomotive 7470 after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968, Dwight purchased former Canadian National 7470. Several years later he helped found the Conway Scenic, and in its early years this heavy 0-6-0 switcher was the heart and soul of the railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the decades, Conway Scenic has carried hundreds of thousands of passengers, and locomotive 7470 has entertained countless visitors and is dearly loved by many people. Now it carries the name of the man who saved it and founded a railroad on which it could run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Conway, the State of New Hampshire, and the railroad\u2019s many friends, guests and visitors are richer for Dwight\u2019s foresight to preserve and present this precious bit of living history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today engine 7470 is the  Dwight Smith<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Swirk, Dwight Smith and George Small pose in front of 7470 during the locomotive’s naming ceremony on August 4, 2019.
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Dwight Smith enjoys a trip on Pullman observation parlor car Gertrude Emma. <\/em>
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Conway Scenic road foreman of engines Mike Lacey sits in the engineer’s seat of 7470, now named for Dwight Smith.

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Sunday, August 4, 2019 was the 45thanniversary of Conway Scenic Railroad\u2019s first revenue run. To celebrate this event and to honor Conway Scenic\u2019s founder, Dwight Smith, Conway Scenic\u2019s president and general manager David Swirk presided over a short ceremony at the North Conway station to name locomotive 7470 after him. In 1968, Dwight purchased former … Continue reading Yesterday I Witnessed History at North Conway.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[5754,5835,5836,5738,4537,5733,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dave_Swirk_Dwight_Smith_and_George_Small_DSCF0914-2.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-78O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27460,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions\/27460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}