www.onecedarlane.com, located in Ashland on the Pemigewasset River, close to Rt 93-Exit 24 is something like the biggest maker of shoe trees in the country, turning natural cedar wood into shoe care items. You know there's a single railroad track that goes immediately close to this Ashland factory, and I've never seen a train in the area, so all their items must come in and go out on a truck.
Up in Groveton NH, there was a double factory that made 8 1/2 x 11" white paper on one side of the factory, and made corrugated cardboard on the other side, and absolutely everything came in and out, all on trucks. The railroad lost out to trucking here in NH, many years ago.
The freight train done left that NH-factory mill a long time ago, and it ain't no com'n back ...... chooooo-chooooo-chugga-chugga-chugga!
www.hoborr.com/ and
www.hoborr.com/winni.html and
www.clarkstradingpost.com and
www.conwayscenic.com and
www.thecog.com/ in Lincoln, Meredith, North Woodstock, Conway and Bretton Woods are all very happening tourist railroads that carry people, maybe mostly tourists, and are all a super ride with super views.
If only there was a market for northern New Hampshire snow, you know that white stuff that falls from the sky and piles up on the ground in the winter, snow could get railroaded down to wherever, for whatever ...... whenever ....... a snow train!