{"id":32240,"date":"2024-04-30T04:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=32240"},"modified":"2024-04-30T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:41:27","slug":"hobo-railroad-gets-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=32240","title":{"rendered":"Hobo Railroad Gets New Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New Hampshire\u2019s Hobo Railroad is now called the Granite State Scenic Railway. The name change comes months after the popular tourist railroad and its sister operation, the Winnipesaukee Scenic, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/patriot-rail-buys-new-hampshire-tourist-railroads\/\"><span>were purchased by Patriot Rail<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Granite State Scenic and Winnipesaukee Scenic (jointly known as the Plymouth &amp; Lincoln Railroad) operate on 54 miles of former Boston &amp; Maine trackage in the White Mountains. The operation was founded in 1987 by Ed and Brenda Clark. The family operated the Hobo Railroad out of Lincoln for a number of years before starting up the Winnipesaukee Scenic in 1991. For a number of years, the railroad used a fleet of Alco switchers, but today it uses EMDs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Regular excursions begin in May. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gsscenic.com\/hobo-rail-road\/\"><span>Visit the railroad\u2019s website for more information<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/hobo-railroad-gets-new-name\/\">Hobo Railroad Gets New Name<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/\">Railfan &amp; Railroad Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff New Hampshire\u2019s Hobo Railroad is now called the Granite State Scenic Railway. The name change comes months after the popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-32240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}