Life by the tracks Author:Virginia C. Downs "when passenger trains steamed through the notch" When a steam engine killed her husband, Hattie Evans was left with four young children. They lived in a Maine Central Railroad section house high up on the desolate slope of Mount Willard in New Hampshire's Crawford Notch. — Members of the Evans family invite you into their notch home to relive me... more »mories of a hard but rewarding life maintaining the most difficult section of tracks on the Maine Central Railroad's Mountain Division. Share their memories of narrow escapes on the track, of wrecks and runaways, and fun on the mountain slope by their home. Innumerable interviews are skillfully interwoven to present an unforgettable story of an unusual family who lived by the steepest railroad track in the eastern part of the United States.« less