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A Maine Central passenger train stands at Bartlett station in Bartlett, New Hampshire, circa 1910. The small steam locomotive waits beside the wooden platforms beneath the White Mountains as passengers gather at one of the Mountain Division’s most important operating points during the height of rail travel through Crawford Notch.
Looking eastward at Bartlett station on the Maine Central’s Mountain Division in Bartlett, New Hampshire, circa 1930.
The Bartlett freight house stands beside the Maine Central’s Mountain Division at Bartlett, New Hampshire, on 4 June 1965. By this period, the once-busy helper terminal had entered its later years, though the yard and freight facilities still supported local freight activity and track maintenance operations through Crawford Notch. © Ted Houghton
Bartlett, N.H., circa 1968. A pair of GP7s and GP38 no. 257 prepare to assist a westbound train climbing toward Crawford through heavy snow © Alan Thomas
Maine Central GP38 no. 251 leads Portland–St. Johnsbury freight RY-1 away from Bartlett on a damp July day in 1972, beginning the climb toward Crawford Notch. A solid lash-up of Harvest Gold power trails behind, typical of Mountain Division operations in the early 1970s. © John Wallace
Maine Central EMD GP38 no. 256 leads freight YR-1 through Bartlett, New Hampshire, on 6 May 1981, followed by no. 260, no. 257 and GE U18B no. 406 Colonel John Allen. The 36-car train passes the former engine house, by then in use as a highway department maintenance shed, a familiar landmark on the Mountain Division in its later years. © Chuck Schwesinger
Maine Central train YR-1 meets the local freight at Bartlett, New Hampshire, on 13 August 1982. The caboose visible is MEC no. 646, converted at Waterville from boxcar no. 4939, a 1936 Magor-built 40ft car. Known as the “Beecher Falls caboose,” it later worked trains 324/325 out of Rockland before preservation on the Grafton & Upton Railroad. © Gordon Smith
Maine Central U18B no. 401 Hannah Weston pauses at Bartlett in September 1982 as RY-1 takes on an additional unit for the stiff 2% climb through to Crawford Notch. On the adjacent track stands Maine Central caboose no. 646, a converted boxcar, underscores the home-road feel of the scene. The train will work west to St. Johnsbury before returning east as YR-2. © John Wallace
Maine Central chop-nosed EMD GP7 no. 574 leads RY-2 through Bartlett, New Hampshire, in September 1982, with GE U18B no. 401 Hannah Weston and a second unidentified U18B trailing, as the train departs on its evening run toward St. Johnsbury. By this stage, Mountain Division operations had been reduced to a single through freight in each direction, with RY-2 typically leaving Rigby in the late afternoon and working west into the evening. Local power based at Bartlett was often added here, reflecting the changing operating pattern in the line’s final years of through service. © John Wallace
Maine Central train YR-1, with GP38 no. 258 and U18B no. 402, at Bartlett, New Hampshire, on 28 May 1983 to pick up a few old cars. © Richard Merriam
Conway Scenic Railroad’s Covered Wagons excursion makes its way through Bartlett on the return trip, captured on 8 January 2023 by Nate Moscone using a DJI Air 2S drone. The aerial perspective highlights the classic EMD cab units working through the snow-dusted scenery of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Valley, a rare and impressive sight in winter operation. © Nate Moscone
Photographed on 1 November 2025 at Bartlett, with the 470 Club excursion heading west under GP9 1741’s lead. © Stephen Quill-Schuffels
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