Whatever happened to Hoot Toot & Whistle Rwy?

Sloan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:10 am

Hmmm. I always thought that was the moniker for the Hoosac Tunnel & Western Railway.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 9841.story

Sloan

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:59 am

Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington, the destination of the 1st railfan trip in central Massachusetts, in 1937?

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:23 am

Some photos and information of the Hoot Toot & Whistle in operation:

http://www.grandscales.com/rrn/Oct%202007.pdf (see page 3)
http://trains.uoregon.edu/drupal/gallery/parktrains/hoottootnwhistlebrocure

The train is at the operation near the Dells, and the depot is still in its original location along Route 20 in Elgin, albeit surrounded by RV's now.

P2c3689 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:07 pm

I believe the last thing the HT&W did before it was torn up was help move materials and equipment for the construction of the Yankee Rowe Atomic Power Plant, which I believe was completed in 1961. Yankee was one of the early civil nuclear power plants in the U.S. It was also the first one to be decommissioned and disassembled, and a few years ago GRS hauled the reactor vessel away on a flatcar to Barnswell, SC for disposal.