Articles on Railroads and Stations in NH:

Updated: 1/3/10    [120 titles listed]

 

[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]

 

---------------------. "1936 Flood." B&M Bulletin 21, No. 1 (1998), 16-26.

---------------------. "93 Historic Train Depots." NH To Do, Spring Issue No. 2 (2004), 32-5 [data and pictures derived from the NH stations website].

---------------------. "Want to Buy a Bridge?" New Hampshire Historical Society Newsletter 20 (March 1982), 1 [on Lyndeborough Trestle].

Adams, Robert B. The North Conway & Mt. Kearsage Railroad: New Hampshire's Forgotten Two-Footer." New England States Limited 3 (1981), 30-31.

Alden, John. "Snow Train Memories 1931-1971." B&M Bulletin 3, No. 2 (Winter 1973).

Allen, C. F. H. "A Former Rail Center in the White Mountains: North Conway, New Hampshire." Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 99 (1958), 37-42.

Allen, C. F. H. "The Maine Central in Northern New Hampshire." Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 99 (1958), 42-54.

Baillio, Paul. "The 'Old Red Line': The Nashua, Acton & Boston RR." B&M Bulletin 24, No. 4, 9-17, 23-38 [includes 13 good depot images].

Belanger, Raymond. "Focal Point: A North Country Album," B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 4 (2006), 12-29 [many photos of railroading in and around Berlin, NH].

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), 32-37 [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.]

Boston & Maine Railroad Passenger Traffic Department, and Richard K. Hurst. "A Boston & Maine Chronology: 1900-1945. B&M Bulletin XXVI, 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.]

B&M Bulletin Staff. "Debut of the Downeaster." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 1 (2002), 7-21.

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

Campbell, Victor J. "Slow Train to Keene." Railroad Enthusiast 3 (March-April 1966), 2-8.

Cluff, Dohn A. "Some Personal Recollections of the W.N.&P." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 3 (2001), 26-9 [mostly on WN&P in Maine].

Cobb, Chandler, and Joseph Shaw. "Dover: A Pictorial Essay." B&M Bulletin 11, No. 1 (Fall 1981), 10-23.

Cobb, Chandler, and Joseph Shaw. "The Railroads of Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Pictorial Essay: Part I." B&M Bulletin 9, No. 2 (Winter 1979-80).

Cobb, Chandler, and Joseph Shaw. "The Railroads of Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Pictorial Essay: Part II." B&M Bulletin 9, No. 3 (Spring 1980).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Bituminous to Bow." B&M Bulletin 7, No. 4 (Fall 1977), 12-21.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "Narrow Gauge to the Notch." B&M Bulletin 5, No. 4 (Summer 1976), 19-26.

Crouch, H. Bentley. "New Hampshire's New Short Lines." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 4 (1988).

Crouch, H. Bentley. "The 'Pemi.'" B&M Bulletin 5, No. 4 (Winter 1975-76), 20-31 [on the Pemigewasset Valley RR].

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 9, No. 2 (Winter 1979-80), 21-33.

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

Cummings, O. R. "Berlin Street Railway." Electric Traction Quarterly 3, No. 3 (1965).

Cummings, O. R. "Chester & Derry Railroad." Transportation Bulletin 42 (August 1957).

Cummings, O. R. "Dover, Somersworth & Rochester Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 3 (July-December 1949), 31-40.

Cummings, O. R. "Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway." Transportation Bulletin 5 (1951), 1-20.

Cummings, O. R. "A Granite State Interurban: The History of the Concord & Manchester Electric Branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad." Chicago: Bulletin of the Electric Railway Historical Society 12, 1954.

Cummings, O. R. "The Keene Electric Railway." Transportation Bulletin 46, (February 1958).

Cummings, O. R. "Manchester Street Railway." Chicago: Bulletin of the Electric Railway Historical Society 33, 1960.

Cummings, O. R. "Portsmouth Electric Railway." Electric Traction Quarterly 5, Nos. 1 & 2 (1966).

Cummings, O. R. "The Uncanoonuc Incline Railway" and "The Claremont Railway." Trolley Days in New Hampshire. No. 1 (January-December 1986), 1-16.

DiFalco, Francis J. "The Milford-Bennington Railroad:An SW900 and Ten Hoppers Add up to Rock-Solid Success." Railfan & Railroad 12 (MMarch 1993), 52-5.

Dodge, John.  "Guilford: New England's Reticent Regional." Trains. 57, No. 10 (October 1998), 44-9.

Dole, Richard F. (ed.). "Introducing the Flying Yankee." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 3 (2001), 34-9.

Dole, Richard F. "The Portland & Rochester Railroad Co." B&M Bulletin 12 (Spring 1983).

Doughty, Geoffrey H. "New England's Little Gem." Classic Trains, 4, No. 4 (Winter 2003), 14-8. [on the Maine Central].

Drury, George H. "Boaston & Maine Stations." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 6-7.

Dufour, Jim. "Chasing the Hillsboro Branch: Memories of Boston & Maine in the Granite State. " Railroad Explorer: The Northeastern Rail Journal. Issue 27 (Fall 2009), 12-5.

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

Eugley, Jr., Arthur R. "Two Incidents at Exeter." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 3 (1991).

Eugley, Jr., Arthur R. "Last Run to Concord." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 3 (1993).

Fay, Nathan. "Sullivan County's First Electric Railway." Inter-State Journal 7 (February 1904), 7-11 [on the Claremont Electric Railway].

Fisher, Charles E.  "Locomotive Building at Manchester, New Hampshire." Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 26 (1931), 9-17.

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 10 (Winter 1980-81).

Fletcher, William J. "Tracing the Ghost of the Worcester, Nashua & Portland." B&M Bulletin, 9, No. 2 (Winter 1979-80).

Frye, Harry. "Bristol Branch Revisited." B&M Bulletin 15, No. 3 (1987).

Frye, Harry. "Covered Bridges Remembered." B&M Bulletin 11 (Spring 1982), 7-11.

Frye, Harry. "How Many of You Came Down on the Train Today?: A Look at the Bristol Branch." B&M Bulletin 8 (Summer 1978).

Frye, Harry. "The Northern Road: A Brief History of the Northern Railroad in N.H." New England States Limited 4 (March 1982), 6-17.

Gove, William. "New England's First Logging Railroad: Brown's Lumber Company, Whitefield, New Hampshire." Northern Logger and Timber Processor 16 (April 1973), 45, 62-2..

Gove, William. "The East Branch and Lincoln Railroad: A Logger's Railroad." Northern Logger and Timber Processor 16 (April 1968), 16-17, 48-54.

Hartley, Scott. "Comeback in Crawford Notch." Trains. 61, No. 5 (May 2001), 66-71.

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

Hay, Warren H. "The Cocheco Railroad." B&M Bulletin 6, No. 4 (Spring 1977), 6-14.

Holbrook, Stewart Hall. "That Was Columbia Bridge." New Hampshire Profiles 9 (June 1960), 22-3, 48-9.

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, No. 2 (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, 10, No. 1 (Spring 1981) 9-26; and No. 2 (Summer 1981) 7-12.

Hopper, Gordon. "The Coos Valley Railroad." B&M Bulletin 21, No. 2 (1998), 36-41.

Hunt, Wesley A. "Life and Work at North Charlestown Depot." B&M Bulletin, 15, No. 4 (1988).

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

Johnson, David K. "Three Times Except Sunday." New Hampshire Profiles 1, No. 4 (April 1952) [on the Suncook Valley RR].

Kyper, Frank. "South Lyndeboro Trestle Is Rebuilt." B&M Bulletin 12, No. 2 (Winter 1982-83).

LaMay, Robert A. "Ride the Mt. Washington Cog Railway." Railfan & Railroad. 22, No. 8 (August 2003), 49-50, 44-7.

Lenk, Walter E. The Birth of the Boston & Maine Railroad: March 15, 1983 to January 1, 1842." B&M Bulletin 1, No. 4 (June 1972); and 2, No. 1 (September 1972).

Lessard, Paul. "Portsmouth Branch Memories." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 3 (April 1986).

Libby, R.C."Return: A Short Line Railroad: A Short Progress Report on the First Year of Operations on the Wolfeboro Railroad." Part II. The Railroad Enthusiast (Summer/Autumn, 1974).

Libby, R.C., and Carol M. Furnee. "Through the Woods to Winnipesaukee: A Condensed History of the Wolfeborough Railroad 1868-1974." Parts 1 and 2. Boston and Maine Historical Society, 1974.

Marble, Thomas L. "Railroad Town." New Hampshire Profiles 1 (March 1952), 27-30, 60-1; (April 1952), 46-51; (May 1952), 40-2, 61-4; (June 1952), 50-1; (July 1952), 48-53.

McKinney, Gordon B. "The Hazen Bill of 1887 and the Ascendancy of the Boston and Maine." Historical New Hampshire 38 (Winter 1983), 209-28.

Melvin, George. "The Last Day of the Berlin Mills Railway." Railfan & Railroad 9 (March 1990), 44-50.

Merrill, John W. "Suncook Valley Railroad." The Enthusiast 2, No. 1 (January 1935).

Myers, Stephen G. (coll.). "From the Office of Lawyer Colby." B&M Bulletin 23, No. 1 (2002), 22-7.

Niles, Jr., Charles. "Change Trains at Rockingham Junction." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 3 (1993), 28-33.

Niles, Charles A. "Dover in the 1940's." B&M Bulletin 22, No. 3 (2001), 10-17.

Nowell, Rick. "A Capital Railroad." Part II. B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 2 (2005), 8-27 [on the Concord RR].

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 21, No. 2 (1998), 6-12 [on the Fitchburg RR and Greenville, NH, station].

Nylander, Robert G. "Tales of a B&M Railfan." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 1 (1990).

Patalano, G. Ralph. "'The Railroad.'" B&M Bulletin 18, No. 1 (1991), 17-9. [in and around Bellows Falls, VT, and North Walpole, NH]

Perkins, James. "A Newsboy on the Boston and Maine Railroad." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 4 (1989), 11-12.

Philbrook, Dana. "Lake Shore Railroad: The First Forty Years." B&M Bulletin 16, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 12-27.

Philbrook, Dana. "The Rise and Fall of Lakeport Yard." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 1 (1993), 18-9, 22-29.

Sawyer, Doris E. "White Mountain Depots. " New Hampshire Profiles 1 (February 1952), 45, 62-3.

Schuster, Richard. "Railroad Collections at the New Hampshire Historical Society." Historical New Hampshire 45 (Fall 1990), 235-52 [includes Cocheco, Sullivan, Northern Railroad, among others].

Shaw, Donald. "Conway Electric Street Railway." Transportation (1949).

Smith, Clyde R. "Those Everlasting Buggies." B&M Bulletin 7 (Winter 1977-78), 27-33 [on Laconia Car Co. cabooses].

Smith, Dwight A. "Busy Times at Somersworth." B&M Bulletin 22, No. 3 (2001), 8-9.

Smith, Dwight A. "New England Milk by Rail: 1948." B&M Bulletin 26, No. 3 (2008), 11-17.

Smith, Dwight A. "Where Did the Freight Go?" B&M Bulletin 15 (1987-88).

Squires, James Duane. "The Northern Railroad of New Hampshire: 1844-1848." B&M Bulletin 20, No. 4 (1996).

Stearns, Merton J. "Experiences on the Berlin and Groveton Branches in the Early Forties." B&M Bulletin, 17, No. 4 (1991), 6-18.

Stearns, Milton J. "The Main Line North: 1945-1950: A Station Agent at Enfield, New Hampshire Remembers." B&M Bulletin 20, No. 4 (1996).

Stoddard, Carolyn L. "Along the Former Boston, Concord & Montreal on January 12, 1992." The Bulletin of the Railroad Station Historical Society, Inc. 25, No. 2 (March-April, 1992), 24-8.

Taylor, William L. "Railroad in the Wilderness: The East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, 1892-1948." Historical New Hampshire (New Hampshire Historical Society), Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1993), 186-213.

Tobey, Raymond E. "The Portsmouth, Great Falls & Conway RR." Parts I & II. B&M Bulletin 12, No. 4 (Spring 1983) 4-16; and 13, No. 1 (Fall 1983), 10-13.

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

Valentine, Jr. Donald B. "A Brief History of the Cheshire Railroad." New England States Limited 1 (Summer 1977), 20-9.

Valentine, Jr., Donald B. "The Forest Line." B&M Bulletin 17, No. 1 (1990), 6-11.

Valentine, Jr., Donald B. "The Marlboro Quarries." B&M Bulletin 19, No. 4 (1994).

Van Hattem, Matt. "Map of the Month: Boston & Maine Facilities, 1937." Trains 65, No. 6 (June 2005), 36-7.

Waite, Thornton H. "Recycling New Hampshire's Railroad Stations." B&M Bulletin 7 (Summer 1977), 32-5.

Walker, Alicia. "The Manchester & North Weare Railtroad." B&M Bulletin 14, No. 4 (July 1986), 27-31..

Walker, Ellis E. "Boston & Maine Railroad Pits and Turntables." B&M Bulletin 15 (1987-88).

Warner, Lincoln, and H. S. Walker. "Geared to the Mountains." Trains 1, No. 8 (June 1941). [on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway]

Webster, Frederick E. "A History of Street Railways and Power Development in New Hampshire." Granite Monthly 54 (1922), 281-88.

Whitney, Scott. "Conn. River Bridges." B&M Bulletin 17 (1990), 20-35.

Whitney, Scott J. "From Ashuelot to Ashes." Part I. B&M Bulletin 14, No. 1 (September 1985).

Whitney, Scott J. "From Ashuelet to Ashes." Part II. B&M Bulletin 14, No. 2 (December 1985), 32-5.

Whitney, Scott J. "Focal Point [The Suncook RR]" B&M Bulletin XXV, No. 2 (2005), 36-9 [photos of the Suncook RR].

Wilbur, Clifford Charles. "The Rough and Ready." Repertory 1 (1924-25), 35-9 [on the Cheshire RR].

Wilder, H. Arnold. "Passengers to the White Mountains." B&M Bulletin 5 (Summer 1976), 5-18.