Word: moosehead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...interest of self-survival, the short lines are often even more aggressive than their big brothers. When the failure of local industries threatened its existence, Maine's Belfast & Moosehead Lake built a chicken-feed plant along its line, leased it to an operator and began a feed haul from the plant to the Maine Central. In Texas, where every one of the 13 short-line railroads is making a profit, Veteran Railroader Joseph P. Kerr bought the tenmile, three-diesel Georgetown Railroad five years ago, persuaded nearly a dozen plants to locate along his line, and last year netted...