TODD MOUNTAIN RAILROAD, WHAT IF?
BY DON DOUCETTE
If Walt Disney could deal with his world of fantasy, why not let our minds wander in our own Ten Mile River Watershed and invent a local fantasyland puffer belly railroad line. I’ve always loved to pretend the term Todd Mountain Railroad in my own imaginative make-believe world.
I love the sound of it.
The southern terminus for our fictitious rail line might be its namesake as Todd Mountain itself. So allow my imagination to start here.
1) Southern Terminus, Todd Mountain Railroad – Todd Mountain Station at Luther Reservoir
2) Old Town – Powder House
3) Historic Draper Avenue at Old Post Road
4) Methodist Hill at Howard Johnson
5) Jolly Cholly – coal and water tower yard
6) Six Little Tailors at Chestnut
7) Cheever Corner – Elm at Chestnut
FALLS LOOP
8) Gas House at Mount Hope Switch
9) Northern Terminus, Mason Field at Falls Fire Barn Station
10) Ten Mile River, Gas Works – Falls A.C.
11) Mount Hope, Falls Dam and Diamond Cafe
12) Gas House at Mount Hope Switch
(Reverse Run to Southern Terminus at Todd Mountain Station)
Toot-toot and chug-a-chug-chug, it’s only make believe, but never allow the cinders into your eyes on the olde Todd Mountain Railroad.
(Our little puffer belly is named “Tinker-belle.”)
Don Doucette