A small band of people gathered at the Depot Road train yard last Monday, waiting for a train to come. Eyes looked northward up the tracks and ears listened for the locomotive’s rumble. Where was the train?
Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH) and his Carroll County contacts crossed over the North-South Road to join them. Everyone was there to witness an historic event — the moving of Conway Rec Path bridge materials to the Pudding Pond crossing.
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