New England Short Lines (B & W) 40 Mins #SRP-NESL $29.95 Taken in the 1930s when these railroads were independent of control by the major rail systems and operating just as they had done when first built in the mid-1800s. The Belfast & Moosehead Lake. The Montpelier and Wells River. Rock of Ages. The Claremont and Concord. The Knox. The St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain. The Suncook Valley. The Lake Champlain and Moriah. In the 1930s, short line steam railroads were the sinews that knitted together a rural nation. To make this extraordinary record of a now forgotten time, Al Hale traveled the length and breadth of Northern New England both summer and winter. back