Loon Cove Station

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ALTON

— It is a rare experience to see a railroad station (and not a train) go past a railroad station. Yet, that is what happened last month when the 1890 Loon Cove Railroad station was moved to its new location at the B&M Railroad Park behind Alton's Town Hall. For those who were not up at 6:30 a.m. and roadside in Alton Bay on April 26, they have a second chance to see the Loon Cove station pass the former Alton Bay railroad station without so much as a fare-thee-well. LRPA-TV is winding down

its playing of "Alton's April News" on Metrocast's Channel 25 this week. The various program times are shown on Channel 24 at the top of the hour, but a sure time to capture the historic RR station move for posterity on viewer's VCR's is either 10:20 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, May 22, or 12:27 p.m. on Sunday, May 24. Set the recording time for eight minutes. This video news was produced by Alton resident Bob Longabaugh.