Books on Railroads and Stations in MA:

Updated: 2/6/08 

(130 titles)

 

----------------. Boston & Maine Railroad: Official List: Officers, Agents, and Stations. Westbrook, ME: Edwin B. Roberston, 1982.

----------------. Boston Transit Album. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 14, 1977.

----------------. The Central Mass. Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, 1975.

----------------. The First Railroad in America: A History of the Origin and Development of the Granite Railway of Quincy, Massachusetts. Privately printed by the Granite Railway Company, 1926.

----------------. History of the Old Colony Railroad: A Complete History of the Old Colony Railroad from 1844 to the Present Time. Boston: Hager & Handy, 1893.

----------------. Mt. Tom and the Mt. Tom Railroad. Holyoke Street Railway, 1910.

----------------. The New Haven Railroad along the Shore Line. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Books.

----------------. A Rail Journey Through New England. The 470 Railroad Club, 1998.

----------------. The Stoughton Railroad Station. Stoughton, MA, 19888.

Appleton, Edward. History of the Railways of Massachusetts [1871].  Rpt. as Bulletin of Railroad Enthusiasts, No. 1, 1952.

Baker, George Pierce. The Formation of the New England Railroad System. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.

Bob Barnett. The Providence & Worcester Railroad.  Goffstown, NH: Railroad Explorer, 2007.

Barrett, Richard C. Boston's Depots and Terminals: A History of Boston's 32 Railroad Stations. Railroad Research Publications, 1996.

Bazen, John. The Railroad Is Coming: The Hudson & Berkshire Railroad. 1998.

Bazen, John. Rails Across the Berkshire Hills.

Beaudette, Edward R. Central Vermont Railway. Newton, NJ: Carstens, 1982.

Beauregard, Mark W. R.R. Stations of New England Today: Vol. 1 "The Boston & Maine RR". Flanders, NJ: Railroad Avenue Enterprises, 1979.

Blackwell, Walter. Tracing the Route of the Martha's Vineyard Railroad, 1874-1896. Miami: Englehart Printing Co., 1971.

Blakeslee, Phillip C. Lines West: A Brief History. Connecticut Railway Society, 1974. [on New Haven RR]

Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society. Moguls, Mountains, and Memories.

Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society. The Central Mass. 1975.

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Boston and Lowell Railroad; The Nashua and Lowell Railroad; and The Salem and Lowell Railroad. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1918; rpt., Melrose, MA: Panorama Publications 1972.

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Boston & Maine Railroad: A History of the Main Route with Its Tributary Lines. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1921; rpt., Melrose, MA: Panorama Publications 1972.

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Eastern Railroad: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1922, rpt., Melrose, MA: Panorama Publications 1972.

Brown, Joyce S. The Line: A Story of the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company. Worcester: United Offset Printing, 1999.

Byron, Carl R. Boston & Maine Trackside with Arthur E. Mitchell. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, 1999.

Byron, Carl R. A Pinprick of Light: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Its Hoosac Tunnel. Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1978.

Byron, Carl R. Trackside around Boston 1942-1962 with Lawson Hill. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2000.

Byron, Carl R. Trackside along the Boston & Maine: 1945-1975,  with Lawson Hill. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2005.

Campbell, Faith S. The Housatonic Railroad from 1840. Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society, 1991.

Carlson, Stephen P., and Thomas W. Harding. From Boston to the Berkshires: A Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Massachusetts. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 21, 1990 [contains a extensive bibliography of print sources about trolleys in massachusetts].

Carlson, Stephen P., and Thomas W. Harding. Worcester Trolleys Remembered: A Pictorial Review of the Streetcar Era in the Heart of the Commonwealth. Worcester: Worcester Regional Transit Authority, 1985.1985.

Carman, Barnard R. Hoot, Toot & Whistle: The Story of the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad. Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1963.

Carpenter, Richard C. A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946, Volume 2: New York and New England. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 [162 pages of railroad maps, fully indexed].

Caswell, C. E.  Boston, Concord & Montreal RR:: An Early History and the Men Who Helped Make It.  Warren, NH: The News Press, 1919.

Clarke, Bradley H. The Boston Rapid Transit Album. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 17, 1981.

Clarke, Bradley H. South Shore: Boston to Quincy. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 10, 1972.

Clarke, Bradley H. Trackless Trolleys of the Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway Co. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 11, 1975.

Conant, Lawrence. New Bedford Pictorial: A Picture Roster of the Union Street Railway. Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1980.

Cook, Preston. Before Guilford. Silver Springs, MD: Old Line Graphics, 1988.

Cornwall, L. Peter, and Carol A. Smith. Names First--Rails Later: New England's 700-Plus Railroads and What Happened to Them. Stanford, CT: Arden Valley Group, 1989.

Cudahy, Brian J. Change at Park Street Under: The Story of Boston's Subways. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1972.

Cummings, O. R. Boston & Worcester Street Railway: The Trolley Air Line. 1954.

Cummings, O. R. Boston Street Railway. 1965.

Cummings, O. R. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway: Volume 1: Newburyport Division. Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1964.

Cummings, O. R. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway: Volume 2: Merrimac Division. Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1965.

Cummings, O. R. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway: Volume 4: Salem Division. Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1967.

Cummings, O. R. Street Cars of Boston: Volume 1: Closed Horse and Electric Cars, 1887-1900. Forty Fort, PA: Harold Cox, 1973.

Cummings, O. R. Street Cars of Boston: Volume 2: Open Horse and Electric Cars, 1887-1900. Forty Fort, PA: Harold Cox, 1974.

Cummings, O. R. Street Cars of Boston: Volume 5: Articulated and Center Entrance Cars 1912-53. Forty Fort, PA: Harold Cox, 1977.

Cummings, O. R. Trolleys along the Turnpike: the Boston & Worcester Trolley. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No.12, 1975.

Cummings, O. R. Trolleys into the Land of the Pilgrims 1886-1928. 1992.

Cummings, O. R. Trolleys of the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway: 1913-1930. Volume 5.

Cummings, O. R., and Harold E. Cox. Surface Cars of Boston, Massachusetts: 1901-1963. Forty Fort, PA: Harold E. Cox, 1963.

Dougty, Geoffrey H. The New Haven Railroad in the Streamline Era. TLC Publishing, 1998.

Dougty, Geoffrey H. The New Haven Railroad' Streamline Passenger Fleet, 1934-1953. TLC Publishing, 1998.

Eldredge, Andrew T. Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands. Charlestown, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2003. [Images of Rail/America Series]

Farnham, Elmer F. The Quickest Route: The History of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1973.

Farson, Robert H. Cape Cod Railroads: Including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Yarmouth Port, MA: Cape Cod Historical Pub., 1990.

Fisher, Charles E. The Story of the Old Colony Railroad. Taunton: Hack & Son, 1919.

Fisher, Ralph E. Vanishing Markers: Memories of the Boston & Maine Railroading, 1946-1952. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1976.

Frye, Harry. Minuteman Steam. B & M Historical Society, 1982.

Granite Railway Company. The First Railroad in America. 1926.

Greene, J. R. The Mass. Central RR: Quabbin's Phantom Railroad. 1996.

Hall, Ronald, and Robert Wuchen Jr. (eds.). Memories of New Haven (2 vols.). Wallingford, CT: Cedar Hill Publications, 1985.

Harlow, Alvin F. Steelways of New England. New York: Creative Age Press, 1946.

Hartley, Scott. Guilford: Five Years of Change. Railpace, 1989.

Hartley, Scott. The New Haven Railroad: The Final Decades. Railpace.

Hastings, Philip Ross. The Boston & Maine: A Photographic Essay. Locomotive and Railway Preservation Society, 1989.

Heald, Bruce D. Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. Charlestown, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2001. [Images of Rail/America Series]

Heald, Bruce D. Boston & Maine in the 20th Century. Charlestown, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2001. [Images of Rail/America Series]

Heald, Bruce D. Boston & Maine: Trains and Services. Charlestown, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2005. [Images of Rail/America Series]

Hitchcock, Henry Russell. The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1961.

Humphrey, Thomas J., and Norton D. Clark. Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 19, 1985.

Humphrey, Thomas J., and Norton D. Clark. Boston's Commuter Rail: The Second Section. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 20, 1986.

Jones, Robert C. The Central Vermont Railway: A Yankee Tradition. 6 vols. Silverton,CO: Sundance Pub., 1981.

Jones, Robert Willoughby.  The Boston & Albany. Pine Tree Press.

Jones, Robert Willoughby. Three Colorful Decades of New England Railroading. California: Trans-Anglo Books, 1991.

Karr, Ronald Dale. Lost Railroads of New England. 2nd ed. Pepperell, MA: Branch Line Press, 1966.

Karr, Ronald Dale. The Railroads of Southern New England: A Handbook of Railroad History. Pepperell, MA: Branch Line Press, 1995.

Kirkland, Edward Chase. Men, Cities and Transportation: A Study in New England History 1820-1900. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1948.

Knowles, John D. The Sudbury Streetcars. 1993.

Kyper, Frank. The Railroad That Came Out at Night: A Book of Railroading in and Around Boston. Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1977.

Lancaster, Clay. The Far-Out Island Railroad: Nantucket's Old Summer Narrow Gauge, 1879-1918. Nantucket: Pleasant Pub., 1972.

Lewis, Henry. The Blackstone Valley Line: The Story of the Blackstone Canal Company and the Providence & Worcester Railroad. Seekonk, MA: Baggage Car, 1973.

Lewis, Henry. Ware and the Railroads. Ware, MA: Lewis, 1967.

Liljestrand, Bob. New England 1930's Steam Action: Worcester. Hanover Press, PA: The Railroad Press, 2000.

Liljestrand, Robert A.  The New Haven Railroad's Boston Division. Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2001.

Liljestrand, Robert A.  The New Haven Railroad Midland Division. Farmers, KY: Bob's Photos, 2008.

Liljestrand, Robert A.  The New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Division. Vol. 1.  Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2000.

Liljestrand, Robert A.  The New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Division. Vol. 2.  Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2005.

Liljestrand, Robert A. Railroad Cities: Springfield, Massachusetts. Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2001.

Liljestrand, Robert A., and David R. Sweetland. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2002.

Liljestrand, Robert A., and David R. Sweetland. Passenger Cars of New England Volume I: Boston & Maine. Ansonia, CT: Bob's Photos, 2000.

Marconi, Carole J. Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Mass.: A History of Narrow-Gauge Steam Railroading in New England. 1977.

Mason, Edward. The Street Railway in Massachusetts: The Rise and Fall of an Industry. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1932.

Maywald, Henry. Memories of the Boston & Maine. NJ: NJ International.

McGarigle, Bob. Nantasket Beach Branch Line Trolley. Connecticut Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, 1981.

McGuirk, Martin. The New Haven Railroad: Along the Shore Line.  Milwaukee: Kalmbach Pub., 1999.

McNamara, Thomas, and Jeremy F. Plant. New Haven Trackside, 1998.

Mears, Sherman. Essex Electrics. Essex, MA: Essex Historical Society, 1981.

Moody, Linwood W. Edaville Railroad: The Cranberry Belt. South Carver, MA: Ellis Atwood, 1947.

Neal, Robert Miller. High Green and the Bark Peelers: The Story of Engineman Henry A. Beaulieu and His Boston and Maine Railroad. N.Y.: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1950.

Nelligan, Tom. Bluebirds & Minutemen: Boston & Maine: 1974-1984. Macmillan, 1986.

Nelligan, Tom. New England Shortlines. NY: Heritage Press, 1982.

Nelligan, Tom, and Scott Hartley. Route of the Minuteman: 1969-1979: Quadrant Press Review, No. 8, 1980.

Nimke, R. W. Connecticut River Railroads and Connections. Ten volumes. Rutland, VT: Sharp Offset Printing, Inc., date?

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. H. H. Richardson: Comeplete Architectural Works. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1982.

Parker, Glenn. Cornfield Meet: A History of Trolleys in Westboro. Westborough Civic Club, 1987.

Pavlucik, Andrew J. The New Haven Railroad: A Fond Look Back. New Haven: Pershing Press, 1978.

Phelps, George. New England Rail Album: A Traveling Salesman Remembers the 1930's. 1989.

Plant, Jeremy F. Trackside around Massachusetts: 1950-1970, with Russ Munroe. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2005.

Plant, Jeremy F., and Jeffrey G. Plant.  The Boston & Maine in Color. Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2005.

Roy, John. H. A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses. Pepperell, MA: Branch Line Press, 2007.

Smith, Warren L. Berkshire Days on the Boston & Albany. Quadrant Press Review, No. 9, 1982.

Sokolosky, William C. A History of Railroads in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Yarmouth Port, MA: Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, 1975.

Solomon, Brian, and Mike Confalone. Rails Across New England 1989-1999: Volume 2: Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Goffstown, NH: Railroad Explorer, 2007.

Stanford, R. Patrick. Lines of the NYNH&H Railroad Co. Sel-published, 1976.

Stanley, Robert C. Narrow Gauge: The Story of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. Cambridge: Boston Street Railway Association, No. 16, 1980.

Viekman, William K. The Edaville Story: The First 25 Years. E. Providence: Watchemoket Press, 1973.

Walker, Mike. Railroad Atlas of North America: North East U.S.A. Kent, England: Steam Powered Publishing, 1995. [MA maps: pp. 7-10]

Weller, John L. The New Haven Railroad: Its Rise and Fall. New York: Hastings House, 1969.

Ziel, Ron. Edaville Railroad: The Gateway to Cape Cod. 1965.