Traveling from Concord to Lebanon along Route 4, you’re likely to see people walking or biking on the Northern Rail Trail. While Potter Place Station has been preserved, that 50 plus mile stone dust path is really all that remains of the once thriving Northern Railroad.

NHPR’s Sean Hurley spoke with historian Ken Cushing, who’s writing a book on the Northern, as well as Jean Gove, who grew up across the street from busy Cardigan Station in Grafton, to give us this glimpse of the Northern Railroad as it was.  click here for full article