Our 19th century railway now has a 21st century Maintenance and Repair facility!
Our nineteenth century engine and coach shops ( seen here in the 1950’s), as they appeared to so many generations of hard working Coggers.
In 2020, we broke ground on a brand new 35,000 square foot maintenance shop at Marshfield, large enough to house our entire fleet of locomotives and track equipment. The new shop facility came online in 2021 and relieved the overburdened circa 1890 engine and coach shops, which will remain in use. For the first time in many years, all routine maintenance, repair and fabrication now takes place at Marshfield year round.
MW9 after a fresh paint job in the cramped 19th century Marshfield engine shop.
The remains of an old steamer rest behind our 19th century engine shop, while the steel framework of the new maintenance facility rises in the background.
Mike and his son Liam performing annual winter maintenance on M5 in the new shop. Working at the Cog has been a tradition in many North Country families, with knowledge and experience passed down from one generation to the next.
TRAINMD, our mobile maintenance vehicle, brings the expertise and resources of our shop crew and equipment directly to the trains as needed, instead of the other way around.
Even machines that are as well designed and maintained as our biodiesel locomotives break down from time to time, so we always have shop crew ready to perform repair work on the mountain. Here, shop foreman John Suitor and senior engineer Phil Beroney replace M3’s air dryer on the summit.
We design, build and maintain our passenger coaches as well. Here, the teal coach has its floor repaired and repainted and awaits re-installation of its seats.
Mechanical engineer Caleb Gross (l) and Shop Foreman John Suitor review plans for a new passenger coach in the old Marshfield engine shop.
The transfer table is a motorized section of track that allows movement of locomotives and coaches into and out of bays in the engine and coach shops. The locomotives move in and out under their own power, but the coaches need to be pushed into and out of the shop by our crew.
M5 on its way to the Berlin, NH Maintenace Facilty for its winter overhaul in 2018. Before the new Marshfield shop came online in 2021, the logistics of moving the fleet back and forth every year greatly complicated these annual checkups!