The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
tl'rom the Boston Journal
Woodstock and its New Railroad.

WOOuSCOCK anu lCS NEW hdllTOdu.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, W.,
April Is, 1876.
The Woodstock railroad, road running
from White River Junction to Woodstock,
VT, u distance of fourteen miles, has be-
come fixed fact. This, now frit-class
road in all respects, has been built mainly
by the inhabitants of Woodstock, through
Quechee village in the town of Hartford,
Vt, aud the town of Bridgewater, adjoin-
ing Woodstock, added materially in the
enterprise. The road has with it's rolling
stock cost not far from half million of
dollars. 1t was commenced in the spring
of 1868, but was not finished for the rum
ming of cars until October last. 1t has
been great tax upon the energies and re.
sources of the people of Woodstock, and
they have had many obstacles to ov ercome,
but they have manfully met every require
nent, and now have the road which so
many of their best citizens have long felt
was not only a convenience but necessity.
There is no fourteen miles of railroad in
Vermont where the scenery from the cars
is finer than on the line OF this road. Leav-
ing White River Junction the first four
miles give the traveller q most superb view
of the valley of White River, with its farms
and farm houses, its river and its distant
mountains, long trains Of cars on the Cen
trail Vermont winding their way along the
iron track in the valley, Its hillside of for
eat and of field, all constituting a picture
most pleasing to behold. Leaving this view,
and within five minutes time we come into
the valley of the Quechee River, equally
beautiful and more picturesque, and in five
minutes more we are crossing the Quechee
chasm on a strong, firmly built Howe truss
bridge, when from the car windows one can
in perfect safety look down upon the rush.
ing waters of Quechee River one hundred
and sixty feet below the bridge. Next we
pass busting, enterprising Quechee village,
which is only six miles from Woodstock.
From Quechee the road follows Quechee
River through Taftsville TO Woodstock vii
lase, which is reached in about forty Ave
minutes after leaving White River juno
ton. Woodstock village contains nearly
two thousand people, and no more beau
tiful inland village can be found within the
limits of New England. Its churches are
numerous, its schools unsurpassed, its mer-
chants enterprising, its citizens w-abiding
and industrious.
There is an air of neatness and order
about Woodstock which is pleasing to all
visitors. Its streets are neat and spacious,
and the drives in every direction from the
village are very enjoyable. There is in
Woodstock village fine Episcopal church
and society;a congregational church and
society-which ia the Oldest in town;
Baptist church and society; Universalist
church and society; and Methodist church
and society. All of the above religious
societies have large and well furnished
churches. Besides the above the Catholics
hold religious services once in two weeks,
but as yet have built no church edifice and
the Spiritualists hold also frequent meet
ings on Sundays. Woodstock village has
public gas works. and many of the stores,
private dwellings and churches are lighted
with gas, and the gas is Of a superior quail
ity manufactured from oil. l set down
Woodstock as one OF the finest towns in the
state for either temporary or permanent
residence.
What is now wanting to make Wood
stock easily accessible from every quarter
is the early extension of the Woodstock
Railroad to Rutland, Vt, a distance of
obtained for a road called the Rutland and
Woodstock Railroad. A survey has been
made Of the route, which 10 found perfectly
feasible across the mountains, as much 80
as the railroad crossing at Mount Holly on
the railroad from Rutland to Bellows Falls.
Tho financial crisis and other causes have
thus far stood in the way of its construc-
ton, but il is sure to be built, and at no
distant day; and when built, the through
railroad from Rutland to White River June
ton, by tho way of Woodstock, will be one
Of the most important and best patronized
east and west thoroughfares in New Eng
land Ii will, in fact, be the only direct
route from Saratoga and the West to the
White Mountains, and 30 on to Portland.
One look at the map will satisfy the reader
of this fact. BY many it is thought that
the Delaware and Hudson Canal company
will soon see the advantage that such q
road would inure to them, by bringing them
to White River Junction, the very heart
of New England, from whence they could
distribute countless carloads of their coal,
Y through the different railroads centering
there, into every section of Northern and
Central New England.
To return to the Woodstock Railroad.
This road has only been running six months
and those months the worst for business Of
any in the year, and with pecuniary and
business depression almost unexampled in
the history of the country. Still it has not
only paid all tho running expenses, which
are always more than ordinary the first year
of operation of every road, but has accu-
mula,ed something of surplus to aid the
town Of Woodstock in paying the interest
on it's bonds. Doing so much and so well
in the hard and Indictment winter months,
its friends feel hopeful and encouraged for
ito future. Tho road has a new and first
class engine, built for its use by the Man
chester Locomotive Works, and procured
by the efficient and worthy President Of
the road, Mr.. A. G. Dewey, whose name
1t bears. Mr.. Dewey lives at Quechee viii
lage, and is the chief proprietor as he was
the builder up OF Dewey's Mills, large
and fine mandatory of wooden goods at
that place.
The Wason Manufacturing company Of
Springfield, MaU., have placed upon the
road thrae nav nara of thar vnakaora /.