Articles on Railroads and Stations in MA:

Updated: 2/6/087

(148 titles)

 

---------------. "Local Depots of the Eastern Railroad." Lynn Daily Evening Item, 23 October 1909.

---------------. "Recollections of Old Freight Depot." Haverill Gazette, 15 July 1949.

---------------. "The Saugus Branch: A Commuter's Line." B&M Bulletin 8 (Spring 1979), 21-7.

---------------. "Train Depot Was Pride of City." Leominster Pioneer, 29 April 1986.

---------------. "Two-Station Depot War." Lynn Daily Evening Item, 23 October 1909.

Armstrong, Jack. "B&M in the Berkshires." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 3 (April 1986).

Armstrong, Jack. "North Adams Branch." Rails Northeast 4, No. 11, Issue 29 (December 1976), 8-15.

Armstrong, James B. "Last Gasp of the 'Hoot Toot & Whistle.'"  Classic Trains 5, No. 3 (Fall 2004), 34-9.

Baillio, Paul.  "The 'Old Red Line.'" B&M Bulletin 24, No. 4 (2005), 9-17, 23-38 [on the Nashua, Acton & Boston RR; contains maps, timetables, many depot images--very useful].

Barnard, Vincent. "The West End." B&M Bulletin 16 (1989). [on the railroad in Williamstown and west]

Bernard, Vincent. "Signal Systems on the B&M." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 2.

Blardone, Chuck. "The East Wind." B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 3 (2006), 8-28.

Boothroyd, Harold W. "Two Branches, One Station, Many Names." B&M Bulletin 20, No. 2 (1995) [on Hamilton-Wenham depot].

Boothroyd, Stephen. "Wenham Depot Junction." B&M Bulletin, 20, No. 2 (1993).

Borrup, Roger. "Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street railway Company." Transportation Bulletin 75 (July 1967/Dec. 1968).

Borrup, Roger, and Carl L. Smith. "Hyde Park Division, Bay State Railway." Transportation Bulletin 82 (Jan./Dec. 1975).

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 1 (2005), 32-7 [contains chronology from 1900-1921.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 2 (2006), 28-35 [contains chronology from 1921-32.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 3 (2006), 29-38 [contains chronology from 1933-42.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 4 (2006), 33-38 [contains chronology from 1943-45.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 1 (2007), 33-38 [contains chronology from 1945-52.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 2 (2008), 32-39 [contains chronology from 1953-55.]

Bradlee, Francis C. B. "The Boston, Revere Beach, and Lynn Narrow Gauge Railroad." Essex Institute Historical Collections 57 (1921), 273-80.

Brown, Charles A. "The Attleboro Branch Railroad." Shoreliner 12, No. 2 (1981).

Brown, Charles, A. "Berkshire Street Railway." Shoreliner 9 (Fall 1978).

Brown, Charles A. "The Charles River Line." Shoreliner 13, No. 3 (1982), 25-36.

Brown, Charles A. "The Electrification of the Nantasket Beach." Shoreliner 11, No. 4 (1980), 4-17.

Brown, Charles A. "Milton Branch, Shawmit Branch." Shoreliner 10, No. 3 (1979).

Brown, Charles A. "Wood River Branch." Shoreliner 19, No. 3 (1988), 30-39.

Brown, Charles A. "The Unused Hampden Railroad." Shoreliner 22, No. 1 (1991), 6-15.

Brown, Ed. "The Gloucester Branch." B&M Bulletin 13 (Winter 1983-84), 20-5.

Brown, Edward R. "Betty and the Guys." B&M Bulletin 24, No. 3 (2004), 24-7 [on commuting to Boston from the Beverly Farms depot].

Byron, Carl. "The B&M: A Century and a Half of Influence." Classic Trains 8, No. 1 (Spring 2007), 16-19.

Byron, Carl. "Eight Miles Under Wire." Part 1. B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 1 (2007), 14-31; Part 2 B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 2 (2008), 14-31 (on Hoosac Tunnel).

Byron, Carl. "New State Park Features the Tunnel." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 2 (December 1985) [on Heritage Stae Park and Hoosac Tunnel].

Chiasson, George. "Boston's Main Line El: The Formative Years: 1879-1908." Headlights, Vol. 49, 1987.

Clerke, Don. "East Deerfield." B&M Bulletin 8, No. 2 (Winter 1978-79).

Coffey, Brian F. "Boston's South Terminal Station." Railroad History 170 (Spring 1994).

Conrad, R. Richard, and Benjamin Thomas. "The First Locomotive on the Boston & Lowell Railroad." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 1 (September 1985).

Cornwall, L. Peter. "North Station: A Pictorial Essay." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 2 (Winter 1980-81).

Cornwall, L. Peter, and H. Bentley Crouch. "Where the Engines Went." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 3 (April 1986) [on Boston Engine Terminal, 1934].

Cowan, Rodney. "The Fitchburg." B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 2 (2008), 8-13.

Cowen, Rodney. "Life on the West End (Parts I, II, and III)." B&M Bulletin 12 (Summer 1983) 25-30; B&M Bulletin 13 (Fall 1983), 25-31; B&M Bulletin 13, No. 2 (Winter 83-84).

Cowen, Rodney P. "The Upstairs-Downstairs Station." B&M Bulletin. 13, No. 3 (March 1985) [on the cambridge station at Porter Square].

Cramer, F. M. "Hoosac Tunnel." Trains 2 (February 1942), 28-37.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "How It Was--Tower A"  B&M Bulletin 10,   No. 2(Winter 1980-81) [on North Station].

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Diamonds Are Not Forever" [on S. Sudbury and W. Concord Jcts.]. B&M Bulletin 12, No. 2 (Winter 1982-83).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Hastings, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 4 (1988).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "North Station Piers Fire." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 2 (Winter 1983-84).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Two Branch Lines Placed Out of Service." B&M Bulletin 11 (Summer 1981), 6.

Crouch, H. Bentley, and R. Richard Conrad. "The Central Mass. Revisited." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 2 (December 1985), 17-24.

Crouch, H. Bentley, and Harry A. Frye. "Worcester, Nashua & Portland: Part 1: 'The Phantom Division.'" B&M Bulletin (Summer 1979) 5-14.

Crouch, H. Bentley, and Harry A. Frye. "Worcester, Nashua & Portland: Part 3: 'All Those Branches.'" B&M Bulletin ((Winter 1979-80) 21-33.

Crouch, H. Bentley, and Jack Armstrong. "Fitchburg Route is Rehabilitated.'" B&M Bulletin XI (Fall 1981) 27-31.

Cummings, Edward W. "From Worcester to Winnisquam." B&M Bulletin, 18, No. 2 (1991).

Cummings, O. R. "Berkshire Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 79 (January/December 1972).

Cummings, O. R. "Blue Hill Street Railway: Connecting Boston and Its Suburbs." Bulletin of the Electric Railway Historical Society. 25, 1957.

Cummings, O. R. "Brockton & Plymouth Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 59 (July/September 1959).

Cummings, O. R. "Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 74 (1967).

Cummings, O. R. "Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin (1950).

Cummings, O. R. Georgetown, Rowley & Ipswich Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 68 (Mar. - Sept. 1963).

Cummings, O. R. "The Haverhill & Amesbury Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin (1948).

Cummings, O. R., and Gerald F. Cunningham. "Haverhill, Georgetown & Danvers Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 67 (Aug. 1962 - Feb. 1963).

Cummings, O. R. "Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway, 1913-1930." Transportation 2 (January 1948).

Curtin, Tom. "The Berkshire Line." Shoreliner 10, No. 3 (1979).

Day, Theodore. "Georgetown, Mass.: Another Rural Junction That Is Now Just a Memory." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 1 (Fall 1977), 5-10.

Devito, Michael. "Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Co." Transportation Bulletin, 1973.

Dimond, George. "Memories of the Lexington Branch." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 1 (Fall 1983), 6-9.

Dodge, John. "Guilford: New England's Reticent Regional." Trains 57, No. 10 (October 1998), 40-9.

Dreyer, Alden. "The State Road: The Troy & Greenfield Story." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 2, 8-27.

Dreyer, Alden. "'When Do We Get to the Tunnel?'" B&M Bulletin 24, No. 4 (2005), 18-22 [on the song written about the Hoosic Tunnel].

Fisher, Charles. "Western Railroad of Massachusetts." Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, No. 69 (May 1947).

Fisher, Ralph E. "Vignettes of Boston & Maine Railroading." B&M Bulletin 21, No. 4, 6-11.

Fisher, Ralph E. "The Way It Was." B&M Bulletin 12, No. 3 (1983).

Fletcher, William J. "The Ghost Division: The Story of the Worcester, Nashua & Portland." Railroad Enthusiast (1970).

Fletcher, William J. "Snowplowing on the WN&P." B&M Bulletin (Winter 1981-81).

Francis, Gary. "The South Station Terminal, Boston, Massachusetts." Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers XLIII, 1900.

Frattasio, Marc J. "Patrick B. McGinnis and the Boston & Maine Railroad." B&M Bulletin 24, No. 1 (2004), 30-9.

Goodwin, Dana D. "Ashburnham Hill." B&M Bulletin 6 (Fall 1976), 7-29.

Greene, J. R. "Charles Mellen's Vanished Vision: Historical Notes on the Hampden R.R.:1909-12." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 1 (1993).

Hartley, Scott. "Connecticut's 'Other Railroad': Central Vermont." Classic Trains, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 2004), 14-18 [on the Central Vermont in Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts].

Hartley, Scott. "Hot Spot: Springfield, Mass." Trains 58, No. 5 (May 1998), 78-80.

Hartley, Scott. "Yankee Independence." Trains, Vol. 14, No. 6 (June 1994), 56-64 [on the Providence & Worcester].

Hills, Donald G. "Lowell Junction, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin, 17, No. 2, 1990.

Hoisington, Richard A. "This Train Does Not Stop at Nutts Pond: A History of the B&M's Manchester & Lawrence Branch." New England States Limited. Vol. 1, No. 4 (Spring 1978), 15-34.

Hoisington, Richard A. "'Windham…Change for Lawrence and Boston!'" B&M Bulletin (Winter 1976-77), 6-12.

Hoisington, Richard, and E. Robert Hornsby. "And Never the Trains Shall Meet: The Amesbury and Merrimac Branches." Parts I & II. B&M Bulletin, Vol. X, No. 1 (Spring 1981) 19-26; Vol. X, No. 2 (Summer 1981) 7-12.

Johnson, Gary. "Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co." Motor Coach Age 34 (Aug.-Sept. 1982).

Judkins, Harold I. "I Remember Reformatory Station." B&M Bulletin 9 (Spring 1980), 25.

Keefe, Kevin P., and Philip R. Hastings. "Steam in Guilford Country." Trains 57, No. 10 (October 1998), 50-3.

Kelley, Jerry. A Straight Line for Hoosac." B&M Bulletin Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (2007), 8-13.

Kennedy, Charles J. "Railroads in Essex County a Centruy Ago." Essex Institute Historical Collections 95 (1959), 137-48.

King, Leo. "Electric Trains to Boston." Railfan & Railroad Vol. 19, No. 5 (May 2000), 6-7 [Amtrak].

Kyper, Frank. "B&M's Corporation Spur" [Lowell, MA].  B&M Bulletin 21, No. 3, 30-7.

Kyper, Frank. "The Diminutive High Iron of Massachusetts Bay" The Fore River Railroad Corporation, the Union Freight Railroad Corporation." Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 120 (1969), 7-29.

Kyper, Frank. "Railroading at the Fletcher Granite Company." B&M Bulletin, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, 28-34.

Larcom, Paul S. "Railroad Experiences around Beverly during the Steam Era." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 4 (1988).

Lee, James E. "The Dedham Branch." Shoreliner 18, No. 1 ((1987), 6-17.

Lee, James E. "More North of Northampton." Shoreliner 21, No. 1 (1990), 31-3.

Lee, James E. "North of Northampton." Shoreliner 20, No. 2 (1989), 7-19.

Lenk, Walter E. "Boston's Causeway Street Depots." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 2, 1990.

Lenk, Walter E. "B&M's Haymarket Square Depot." B&M Bulletin 18, No. 1, 1991.

Lenk, Walter E. "The Legend of the Fitchburg Railroad's Jenny Lind Tower." B&M Bulletin 11, No. 1 (Fall 1981), 32-6.

Lenk, Walter E. "When the Railroad Came to Medford." B&M Bulletin 12, No. 2 (Winter 1982-83.

Levasseur, Paul E. "An Old Colony Dude." Shoreliner 15, Issue 2 (1984).

Levasseur, Paul E. "Up from the River." New England States Limited, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Spring 1979) [on the Fairhaven Branch].

Long, Henry Follensbee. "The Newburyport and Danvers Railroads: An Account of the Construction and Early Working of Railroads in Central Essex County." Essex Institute Historical Collections 46 (1910), 17-55.

McGargle, Bob. "Nantasket Beach Branch,  New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Pioner Electrification 1895 to 1932." Transportation Bulletin, No. 90, 1981.

Merriam, Frank E. "Early Danvers Railroads." Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society 33 (1945), 50-7.

Morrison, Donald F. "Some Memories of the B&M." B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 4 (2006), 6-11. [on the B&M in eastern Massachusetts in the 1930's and 1940's.]

Morrison, Donald F. "Summers in the B&M Signal Department, 1949-52." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 3.

Mrazik, John I. "Webster, on the Norwich-Webster Branch." Shoreliner 21, No. 2 (1990), 13-35.

Murray, Tom. "Learning the Basics on the B&M and the Soo." Classic Trains 7, No. 2 (Summer 2006), 50-7.

Nazarow, Greg J. "From Fore River to Quincy Bay." Railfan & Railroad 13, No. 5 (May 1994), 48-51.

Nelligan, Tom. "Whatever Happened to the New Haven?" Trains 42 (September 1982), 16-17.

Niles, Jr., Charles A. "An Accident on the Fitchburg Line." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 3 (2003), 32-3.

Northey, Richard P. "A Brief History of the Essex Railroad." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 2 (1993), 12-15.

Nowell, Rick. "The Boston and Maine Railroad in Greater Lawrence (Parts I and II). B&M Bulletin 21, No. 3, 6-29, and B&M Bulletin 21, No. 4, 12-37.

Nowell, Rick. "A Roster of  Presidents, Operatine Officers, and Operating Divisions." B&M Bulletin, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, 35-39 [for the B&M 1833-1984].

Nutting, Archer. "My Railroad Career 1892-1939." B&M Bulletin Vol. XXI, No. 2 (1998), 6-12 [on the Fitchburg RR and Greenville, NH, station].

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. "Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad 1881-94." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 (June 1988), 109-31.

Patch, David. "The Housatonic Railroad Story." Railpace 12 (August 1993), 14-23.

Patton, Ken. "Old Colony Northern Division." Shoreliner 19, No. 1 (1988), 16-35.

Philbrook, Dana R., and R. Richard Conrad. "Fitchburg Railroad Passenger Station, Marlboro, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 2 (Winter 1983-84).

Pontin, H. W. "Over the Berkshires." Trains (April 1942).

Reidy, William. "The Bay Colony Railroad." Shoreliner 17, Issue 1 (1986).

Reidy, William. "Gateway to Cape Cod: Buzzards Bay Bridge." Shoreliner 16, Issue 2 (1985).

Reidy, William. "Massachusetts Rail News: The Return of the Cape Codder." Shoreliner 17, Issue 3 (1986).

Robinson, Donald S. "Greenfield Area Railroads, Then and Now." B&M Bulletin 4, No. 3 (Spring 1975).

Rosenbaum, Joel. "Route of the Cape Codders and Neptunes." Shoreliner 17, Issue 1 (1986).

Roy, Jr., John H. "Providence & Worcester Succeeds on Service." Railfan & Railroad 11, No. 11 (November 1992), 54-9.

Sanderson, Edward P. "Railroads of Massachusetts." Trains 4 (March 1944), 14-25.

Schmerhorn, Gary. "Through the Berkshires." Trains Vol. 59, No. 1 (January 1999), 66-70 [on the Boston & Albany].

Schmerhorn, Gary. "West End: Winter Railfanning on the B&M Fitchburg Main." Railroad Explorer Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2006), 4-10.

Shackford, Paul. "B&M: South Framingham and Franklin." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 1 (September 1985).

Shackford, Paul. "B&M: South Station and Back Bay." B&M Bulletin 15, No.2.

Shackford, Paul. "B&M: South Stoughton and Attleboro." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 3 (March 1985).

Shaughnessy, Jim. "The Short Line They Call the Hoot, Toot, and Whistle." Trains 22 (September 1962), 25-8.

Shaw, Donald E. "Conway Street Railway." Transportation 3 (April/June 1949).

Shaw, Donald E. "Trolley Freight in Western Massachusetts." The Turnout (July 1942).

Shaw, Donald E. "The United States Armory Railroad in Springfield." Shoreliner 13, No. 1 (1982).

Smith, Craig. "Mellow Memories of a Tiny Branch."  B&M Bulletin 12, No. 2 (Winter 1982-83). [on the Swampscott Branch]

Smith, Dwight A. "A Busy Day at North Station: Monday, April 26, 1954." B&M Bulletin 24, No. 1 (2004), 22-9.

Smith, Dwight A. "Trains and Locomotives at North Station, 1947-1951." B&M Bulletin 24, No. 1 (2004), 8-19.

Stenburg, Henry G. "A Short History of the Beverly Depot." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 2 (December 1985).

Stephenson, Jr., Lester. "Lightning Stripes on the Route of the Minuteman." B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 4 (2006), 30-32.

Story, Dana A. "A Recollection of the Essex Branch." B&M Bulletin 6 (Winter 1975-76), 5-15.

Swanberg, J. W. "Boston's Last PCC's Soldier On!" National Railway Bulletin 65, No. 5 (2000), 12-13.

Swanberg, J. W. "The Many Faces of the New Haven." Classic Trains Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2002), 16-19.

Symmes, Richard. Salisbury Point Station Restoration." B&M Bulletin.

Tobey, Raymond E. "Tracks along the Connecticut." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 4 (July 1986), 6-25.

Trencansky, Tom. "Cape Cod Railroad." Railpace 11 (October 1992), 24-30.

Tucker, Carlton E. "Brockton Street Railway Co.: The Beginning of the Old Colony Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 63 (May/June/July 1960).

Tucker, Carlton E. "Taunton Street Railway Company, Taunton Division, Old Colony Street Railway Co., and the Independent Lines Operating in Taunton, Massachusetts: The Horsecars and the Electrics." Transportation Bulletin 68 (March/September 1963).

Valentine, D. B. "A Brief Look at the NYC's New England Stepchild." New England States Limited, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Spring 1979). [on the Boston & Albany]

Victory, Peter T. "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 3, 1989. [on Salem & Lowell RR}.

Volkmer, William D. "Berkshire Street Railway: The Nation's Only Four-State Trolley Operation." National Railway Bulletin 55, No. 4 (1900), 22-7.

Vondrak, Otto. Reactivated Housatonic RR RS3m Debuts on Berkshire Scenic Railway." Railpace Newsmagazine, December 2005, 38-39.

Waite, Thorton. "The Railroad Statiosn of Worcester." Shoreliner 6, No. 3 (Summer 1975).

Walker, Ellis E. "Boston & Maine Railroad Pits and Turntables." B&M Bulletin. 15, No. 3.

Whitney, Scott. "A Changing of the Guard: Railroading in the Central Connecticut Valley." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 3, 1989.

Wilder, H. Arnold. "The Joe Cushing Railroad." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 3 (2003), 27-31. [Fitchburg, MA]

Wilder, H. Arnold. "The Stony Brook Railroad." B&M Bulletin 8 (Spring 1979), 5-14.

Wilner, Robert. "Boyhood Days along the B&M's West End: Blackington Remembered." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 1 (1993).

Wroe, Lewis. "The Hampden Railroad." Railroad Enthusiast, November 1959, 2-6.

Young, Jr., Robert H. "The Mount Tom Electric Railway." Historical Journal of Massachusetts 13 (January 1985).