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Old 05-20-2008, 11:59 AM   #51
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From the Citizen - May 20, 2008
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With help from a local crane company as well as two city councilors, the Lakeport Community Association on Monday set into position a railroad boxcar that will be a large part of its proposed museum of Lakeport history.
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The depot is expected to open later this year as a museum and the boxcar, which will be painted a Boston & Maine color scheme, will be a highlight of the association's goal of recreating what the depot, which is 108 years old, looked like in its B&M heyday.

Fortier hoped that the work of restoring the 70-year-old boxcar's exterior would be completed by the end of the summer. He said the association members would likely vote on whether to paint the boxcar in the maroon-with-gold-stripe color scheme that the B&M used up until the mid-1950s or the blue-black-and-white color scheme the railroad adopted in the second half of the 1950s.

The association bought the boxcar for $2,900 from Peter Dearness, the owner of the Concord-based New England Southern Railroad. The Hobo Railroad hauled the car into Lakeport Sunday afternoon.


LACONIA CITY COUNCILORS Bob Hamel, right, and Armand Bolduc help Ron Mitchell remove the crane hook and cable after Reliable Crane company set a boxcar on the tracks at the Lakeport depot Monday morning.
(DARYL CARLSON/CITIZEN PHOTO)
To date, the association has spent more than $80,000 on its proposed museum.



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