Articles on Railroads and Stations in MA:

Updated: 3/2/23

(315 titles)

 

[Note:  Depot enthusiasts should routinely consult The Bulletin of the Railroad Station Historical Society, currently in more than 40 volumes, for stories and updates.  Typically, short items from its pages are not listed below, though occasionally a story seems worthy of inclusion.  For more, see the RSHS website. For the most detailed online bibliography on the subject of railroad depots, readers are referred to the extensive and excellent listings of the Railroad Station Historical Society: RSHS Bibliography]

 

_________. "Ayer Tower Closed." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 1 (Fall 1980), 10-11.

--------------. "The B&M Photography of Tom Nelligan." B&M Bulletin 31`, No. 2 (2018), 16-38.

---------------. "B&M Salisbury Beach: An Update." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 4 (2009), 8-11.

__________. "Boston & Maine Company Photographs."  Highliner No. 1 (2022), 4-16.

---------------. "Boston & Maine Facilities (Map of the Month)." Trains 65, No. 6 (June 2005), 36-7.

---------------. "Early Days of the Old Colony Railroad." Rockland Standard. November 8, 1962. [from a 1945 paper by Warren Jacobs for the Historical Society of Old Abington]

---------------. "Fall in Massachusetts." Railroad Explorer Issue 21 (Fall 2007), 16-27, 38. [photo essay]

---------------. "Focal Point: Lowell." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 4 (Summer 1978), 34-7.

---------------. "Focal Point: Towers in the Boston Terminal District." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 4 (Summer 1978), 28-33.

---------------. "The Hampden Railroad." Western New England Magazine, 1913, rpt. Athol, MA: Transcript press, 1992.

---------------. "If It Isn't Nailed Down...: From the Collections of the B&MRRHS Archives." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 4 (2009), 21-3 [invoices documenting the sale of railroad property in 1958].

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

---------------. "Location of the Pullman Cars on the Boston & Maine, Midnight Friday, August 24, 1956." B&M Bulletin 27, No. 2 (Spring 2010), 39 [chart of their location across New England]

---------------. "An Old Engineer Remembers...." B&M Bulletin 8, No. 3 (Summer 1977), 15-6 [railroading in northeast Massachusetts].

--------------. "Operating Divisions on the B&M." B&M Bulletin 6, No. 4 (Spring 1979), 29-32.

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

---------------. "The Rockport Loop." B&M Bulletin 8, No. 4 (Summer 1979), 26-7.

---------------. "The Saugus Branch: A Commuter's Line." B&M Bulletin 8, No. 3 (Spring 1979), 21-7.

---------------. "Talgo: The Little Train That Couldn't." B&M Bulletin 8, No. 4 (Summer 1979), 30-5.

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

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

Anderson, Richard. "Wreckers." B&M Bulletin 32, No. 4 (2021), 18-38 [photographic essay]

Appleton, Edward. History of the Railways of Massachusetts. 1871. Repr. The Railroad Enthusiasts Bulletin No. 1, 1952.

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.

Baer, Chris. "The Vineyard Trolley." Dukes County Intelligencer, March, 1977, 125-34.

Baer, Gene. "The Old Island Trolley." Dukes County Intelligencer, May, 1977.

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].

Barbo, Theresa Mitchell. "Off the Rails." From Barbo, Hidden History of Cape Cod. Charlestown, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2019.

Barnett, Robert C. "Recalling a Colorful Era of New England Railroading." Railroad Explorer 29 (Spring/Summer 2010, 22-31 [on the early years of Guilford].

Batson, Scott. "Winchester Tower, The Flying Yankee, and a P-2." B&M Bulletin 32, No. 1, 14-5.

Bernard, Vincent. "Signal Systems on the B&M." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 2, 7-24.

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

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), 26-34.

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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, No. 4 (2006), 33-38 [contains chronology from 1943-45.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 26, No. 1 (2007), 33-38 [contains chronology from 1945-52.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst.   "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 26, No. 2 (2008), 32-39 [contains chronology from 1953-55.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 31-39 [contains chronology from 1956-57.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 26, No. 4 (2009), 24-36 [contains chronology from 1958.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 27, No. 1 (2009), 24-38 [contains chronology from 1959.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 27, No. 2 (2010), 31-8 [contains chronology from 1960.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 27, No. 3 (2010), 32-8 [contains chronology from 1961.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 27, No. 4 (2011), 33-9[contains chronology from 1962.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 28, No. 1 (2011), 33-7 [contains chronology from 1963.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin 28, No. 3 (2014), 35-8 [contains chronology from 1968-1983]

B&M Bulletin Staff. "Braking on the Old W. N. & P." B&M Bulletin , No. 10, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 30-5.

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

Brown, C.A. "The Street Railways of Webster." Shoreliner, 21, Issue 2 (1990), 36-9 [Webster, MA].

Brown, C. A. "Trolley Freight and Express in Southern New England: Bay State Ry. Co." Shoreliner, 19, Issue 4 (1988), 36-9.

Brown, C. A. "A Very Elegant Station." Shoreliner, 20, Issue 2 (1989), 32-3 [Park Square, Boston].

Brown, Charles A. "The Attleboro Branch Railroad." Shoreliner 12, Issue 2 (1981).

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

Brown, Charles A. "The Charles River Line." Shoreliner 13, Issue 3 (1982), 25-36.

Brown, C.A. "The Circus Comes to Town." Shoreliner 19, Issue 1 (1988), 4-11.

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, Issue 3 (1979).

Brown, Charles A. "The Unused Hampden Railroad." Shoreliner 22, Issue 1 (1991), 6-15.

Brown, Charles A. "Wood River Branch." Shoreliner 19, Isue 3 (1988), 30-39.

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].

Burger, Chris. "Cradle of Railroad Interest." Classic Trains 19, No. 1 (Spring 2018), 74-7 [on railroading in the Boston area].

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 26, No. 1 (2007), 14-31; Part 2 B&M Bulletin XXVI, No. 2 (2008), 14-31 (on Hoosac Tunnel).

Byron, Carl. "Freedom on the B&M." B&M Bulletin 33, No. 4 (2023), 15-23 [on the Freedom Train's visit to New England in 1947].

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

Byron, Carl R. "Behind the Scenes at Billerica Shops." B&M Bulletin 31, No. 4 (Summer 2019), 16-17.

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

Clark, Herb, and Don Constantineau. "Old Colony Recollections." Shoreliner, 27, Issue 4, 12-29.

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).

Conard, Rick, and Carl H. Byron. "The Photos of Dave Engman." B&M Bulletin 28, No. 4 (2014), 12-35.

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. "A Chatham Side Trip." Shoreliner 17, Issue 1 (1986), 15.

Cornwall, L. Peter. "North Station: A Pictorial Essay." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 2 (Winter 1980-81), 5-15.

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.

Craton, Forman. "Joy and Pain on the Boston & Maine." Trains (December 1970).  Rpt. B&M Bulletin 19, No. 1, 34-7. [on a pair of 44-ton GE's]

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Bituminous to Bow."  B&M Bulletin 7, No. 1 (Fall 1977), 12-23.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Diamonds Are Not Forever" [on S. Sudbury and W. Concord Jcts.]. B&M Bulletin 12, No. 2 (Winter 1982-83), 16-17.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Gravel to Revere."  B&M Bulletin 4, No. 2 (Winter 1974-75).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Hastings, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 4 (1988), 35-9.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "How It Was--Tower A"  B&M Bulletin 10,   No. 2 (Winter 1980-81), 16-23 [on North Station].

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Jordan Spreaders on the Boston & Maine." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 16-23.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "North Station Piers Fire." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 2 (Winter 1983-84), 3-5.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Shoe City Spectacular." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 4 (Summer 1978), 18-20 [on Brocton].

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 8, No. 4 (Summer 1979) 4-25.

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 11, (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).

Curry, Bruce P, and Donald J. LeJuane (comps.). "Guilford Transportation Industries Locomotive Roster." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 3, 17-33.

Curtin, Tom. "The Berkshire Line." Shoreliner 10, Issue 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.

Donovan, Francis D. "Notes on Some Old Colony Railroad Stations." Shoreliner, 27, Issue4, 30-3.

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].

Drury, George H. "From West of Rotterdam Jct.: Boston & Maine Stations." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 6-7.

Drury, George H. "From West of Rotterdam Jct.: Boston & Maine Route Map." B&M Bulletin 27, No. 3 (2010), 6-7

Dunham, John J.  "Teenage Trackman." Classic Trains, 22, No. 2 (Summer 2021), 68-71 [working on the B&A].

Dunlap. Tim. "All Aboard: Oak Bluffs to the Atlantic." Martha's Vineyard Magazine, May 1991, 35-8.

Ellison, Louis E. "All in a Day's Work." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 3 (Spring 1981), 5-10.

Eughley, Jr., Arthur R. "Death of a Railroad: An Eastern Route Photo-Essay." B&M Bulletin 18, No. 1 (1991), 20-33.

Fahey, Patrick. "The Pink Granite Line." Central Headlight. [on the B&A Milford Branch].

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

Fisher, Ralph. "I Remember It Well." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 3 (1989), 10-12.

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. "Braintree on the New Haven Railroad. Shoreliner 36, No. 4 (2015), 13.

Frye, Harry A. "Boston & Maine Predecessor Railroads."  Part 1. B&M Bulletin 20, No. 2 (1996), 38-9.

Frye, Harry A. "Boston & Maine Predecessor Railroads."  Part 3. B&M Bulletin 20, No. 4 (1996), 12-13.

Frye, Harry A. "Boston & Maine Predecessor Railroads."  Part 6. B&M Bulletin 21, No. 4 (1997), 38-9.

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/Ashburnham Branch." B&M Bulletin 6 (Fall 1976), 7-29.

Goodwin, Dana D., and H. Arnold Wilder. "Not on the Timecard." B&M Bulletin 10, No. 1 (Fall 1980), 12-31,

Greene, J. R. "Charles Mellen's Vanished Vision: Historical Notes on the Hampden R.R.:1909-12." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 1 (1993), 12-7.

Greene, J. R. "James M. Stone and the Mass. Central." B&M Bulletin 20, No. 2 (1995), 10-16.

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].

Harwood, Herbert. "Railroad Stations Designed by H. H. Richardson and His Successor Firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge." Part 1. The Bulletin of the Railroad Station Historical Society 6, No. 3 (May - June 1973).

Harwood, Herbert. "The Railroad Stations of H. H. Richardson." Part 2. The Bulletin of the Railroad Station Historical Society 8, No. 1 (January - February 1975), 1-6.

Harwood, Jr., Herbert H. "Left in the Lurch in Boston." Classic Trains 21, No. 3 (Fall 2020), 78-9 [on the B&A in 1944].

Hills, Donald G. "Lowell Junction, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 2 (1990), 20-33.

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 6 (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.

Howe, Oliver. "The Railroad in Boxford, MA." (1939). Rpt. in The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (January--February 2021), 12-3.

Hurst, Richard K. "Cheshire Branch Passenger Service Discontinuance." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 4 (2009), 37-9.

Hurst, Richard K. "Goodbye to the B&M's Stainless Steel Coach Fleet." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 4 (2009), 18-20.

Hurst, Richard K. "Middlesex." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 22-30 [on Lowell, Massachusetts, facilities].

Hurst, Rick. "A North Station Photo Essay." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 18-21.

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), 25-7.

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. 26, No. 1 (2007), 8-13.

Kennedy, Charles J. "Railroads in Essex County a Century Ago." Essex Institute Historical Collections 95 (1959), 137-48; rpt. B&M Bulletin 5, No. 3 (Spring 1976), 22-9.

Kierstead, Matthew. "H. H. Richardson and the Wellesley Farms Railroad Station." The Bulletin of the Railroad Station Historical Society. 22, No. 2 (March - April 1989), 24-8.

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

Koester, Tony. "Two Photographers You Should Know."  Classic Trains 22, No. 4 (Winter 2021), 16-27 [railroad photography in Massachusetts and elsewhere].

Kydd, Douglas F. "A Dozen More Covered Wagons." B&M Bulletin 28, No. 3, 12-27. [on B&M diesel locomotives]

Kydd, Douglas F. "Southward Expansion Part 2: Freight." B&M Bulletin 29, No. 4 (2016), 15-9.

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

Kyper, Frank. "Boston & Maine Nostalgia." Railroad Enthusiast 7, No. 2 (Summer and Autumn)  (1970), 5-8.

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. "Fatal Disaster at Long Bridge." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 2, 33.

Kyper, Frank. "Greater Boston's Last Regular Steam Operations." B&M Bulletin 28. No. 3, 30-4.

Kyper, Frank. "Railroading at the Fletcher Granite Company." B&M Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 2, 28-34.

Kyper, Frank. "Train Time on Martha's Vineyard." Trains, July 1985, 52-3.

Larcom, Paul S. "Railroad Experiences around Beverly during the Steam Era." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 4 (1988), 10-18.

Lee, James E. "The Dedham Branch." Shoreliner 18, Issue 1 ((1987), 6-17.

Lee, James E. "More North of Northampton." Shoreliner 21, Issue 1 (1990), 31-3.

Lee, James E. "North of Northampton." Shoreliner 20, Issue 2 (1989), 7-19.

Lejune, Don. "East Boston Branch Revival." B&M Bulletin 28, No1 (2011), 38-9.

Lenk, Walter E. "Boston's Causeway Street Depots." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 2 (1990), 6-15.

Lenk, Walter E. "B&M's Haymarket Square Depot." B&M Bulletin 18, No. 1 (1991), 8-16.

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), 26-9..

Lee, James E. "North of Northampton." Shoreliner, 20, Issue 2 (1989), 6-19.

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.

Loverling, Frank. W. "The Fitchburg's Great Bore." Railroad Enthusiast 7, No. 2 (Summer and Autumn)  (1970), 28-32 [on the Hoosac Tunnel].

Lowell, J. Drennan. "Boston in Transition." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 3 (1989), 13-23.

Lowenthal, Larry. "The Southern New England: 'The Old Grand Trunk.'" Shoreliner 21, Issue 2 (1990), 6-11.

Mass. Bay Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc. "Recalling the Central Mass." The Callboy (August 2001), 16-19.

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

McCutcheon, Robert C. "50 Years on the B&M." B&M Bulletin 10. No. 1 (Fall 1980), 5-9.

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

Morgan, Dan. "Martha's Vineyard Railroad." Model Railroader, June 1980, 82-8.

Morrison, Donald F. "Some Memories of B&M Signals." B&M Bulletin 27, No. 2 (2010), 8-10 [on the B&M in eastern Massachusetts]

Morrison, Donald F. "Some Memories of the B&M." B&M Bulletin 25, 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, 4-8.

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

Munroe, Russell F., with Brad Kippen. "Memories of Marblehead: A Small Corner of the B&M." B&M Bulletin 27, No. 2 (Spring 2010), 23-30.

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. "The Boston & Maine Story--1: How to Make It on Your Own." Trains 40, No. 10 (August 1980), 44-9.

Nelligan, Tom. "The Boston & Maine Story--1I: How to Make It on Your Own." Trains 40, No. 11 (December 1980).

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.  "Railroad Fashion." The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (May--June 2022), 11 [on B&M uniforms, etc.]

Nowell, Rick. "Rand, Avery: Railroad Printer." B&M Bulletin 33, No. 4 (2023), 24-37.

Nowell, Rick. "A Roster of  Presidents, Operatine Officers, and Operating Divisions." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 2, 35-39 [for the B&M 1833-1984].

Nutting, Archer. "My Railroad Career 1892-1939." B&M Bulletin 21, 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.

Penniman, Donald E., and L. Darrow Park. "Memories of Medfield Junction." Shoreliner 25 Issue 1 (1994), 22-38.

Philbrook, Dana R., and R. Richard Conrad. "Fitchburg Railroad Passenger Station, Marlboro, Massachusetts." B&M Bulletin 13, No. 2 (Winter 1983-84), 16-9.

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

Railton, Arthur. "Katama: Why the Railroad Came to Be and Not to Be." Dukes County Intelligencer, November 1995, 77-107.

Reilly, Bill. "Old Colony Commuter Service: The New Haven's Problem Child." Part 3.  Shoreliner 27, Issue 3 (1996), 6-39.

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).

Richter, David W. "Train Time at Townsend." Classic Trains, 23, No. 1 (Spring 2022), 52-5 [along the Greenville Branch).

Riedl, Andrew. "Baldpate" (Andrew's Excursions #17). The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (January-February 2023), 10-11.

Riedl, Andrew. "Easthampton, MA -- A Tale of Two Railroads" (Andrew's Excursions #5). The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (January--February 2021), 14.

Riedl, Andrew. "Erving -- Lost in Plain Sight" (Andrew's Excursions #7). The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (May--June 2021), 15.

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Riedi, Andrew. "Piecing Together the Boston & Maine." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 4 (2018), 18-25.

Riedl, Andrew. "The Quincy Quest" (Andrew's Excursions #10). The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (November--December 2021), 9.

Riedl, Andrew. "Waverley: The Land Down Under" (Andrew's Excursions #13). The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (May--June 2022), 10.

Riedl, Andrew. "West Medford: Well Protected" (Andrew's Excursions #132. The Boston & Maine Historical Society Newsletter (March--April 2022), 11.

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), 16-35.

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

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Shackford, Paul. "B&M: South Station and Back Bay." B&M Bulletin 15, No.2, 4-6.

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

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

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

Smith, Dwight, and Bruce Bowden. "B&M Fantrips Then..." B&M Bulletin 27, No. 2 (2010), 12-18 [see also, Raymond Belanger, "B&M Fantrips..." in the same issue, 19-22].

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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 25, No. 4 (2006), 30-32.

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Teed, Richard, and George Ford. "Springfield: A Tale of Two Railroads." B&M Bulletin 29, No. 4 (2016), 20-37.

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Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Alvin Downie." B&M Bulletin 29, No. 4 (2016), 6-14.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (1st) B&M Bulletin 29, No. 2 (2015), 6-13.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (2nd) B&M Bulletin 28, No. 3 (2014), 6-9.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (3rd) B&M Bulletin 28, No. 4 (2014), 7-11.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (4th) B&M Bulletin 29, No. 2 (2015), 6-13.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (5th) B&M Bulletin 32, No. 4 (2021), 6-15.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (6th) B&M Bulletin 33, No. 3 (2022), 6-12.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Bobby Howe." (7th) B&M Bulletin 33, No. 4 (2021), 6-15.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Douglas M. Rice." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 1 (2017), 6-15.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Forrest E. Staples." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 2 (2017), 6-15.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductors Forrest E. Staples and Douglas M. Rice." B&M Bulletin 31, No. 3 (2019), 6-16.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor George W. Cox." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 4 (2018), 6-17.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor George W. Cox." B&M Bulletin 31, No. 1 (2019), 6-13.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor George W. Cox." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 2 (2018), 6-16.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Car Books of Conductor Alvin Downie." B&M Bulletin 29, No. 4 (2016), 6-14.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: From the Terminal Superintendent's Report." B&M Bulletin 33, No. 4 (2023), 6-14.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: An Unusual B&M Passenger Train Extra." B&M Bulletin 32, No. 2 (2020), 6-17.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: Massachusetts Army National Guard Passenger Train Extras." B&M Bulletin 32, No. 3 (2020), 6-17.

Thompson, Tom E. "Consists: Working the North Station Switcher with Brakeman Bob Warren ." B&M Bulletin 31, No. 4 (Summer 2019), 6-15.

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Whitney, Scott. "The Conn River: Colorful Railroading." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 2 (2017), 16-38.

Whitney, Scott. "The Conn River: Colorful Railroading: Photo Section." B&M Bulletin 30, No. 3 (2017), 19-29.

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Wilder, H. Arnold. "Remember...?: The East Wind." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 4 (Summer 1978), 21-7.

Wilder, H. Arnold, and Dana Goodwin.  "From Teakettles to Streamliners to Highliners: A Profile of B&M Passenger Service Since 1900." Railroad Enthusiast 7, No. 2 (Summer and Autumn)  (1970), 10-20.

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