470 Railroad Club

Rick Kfoury will be presenter for this month’s program. He is the President of the Boston and Maine Historical Society, and has done a program or two in the past. 63 years ago, in 1962, F. Nelson Blount’s Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad thundered out of Keene on the Boston & Maine Railroad’s Cheshire Branch, briefly returning The Elm City to the nostalgic era of steam railroading. Meanwhile, plans for the largest steam railroading museum in the United States, Steamtown U.S.A., bubbled to the brink of possibility for Keene - only to be extinguished by red tape and political delays. Rick Kfoury, president of the B&MRRHS and author of 'Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story', will examine Keene’s last chance for railroad prominence with photographs, documents, 8mm film, and in-person accounts."