Articles on Railroads and Stations in NH:

Updated: 3/1/08    [113 titles listed]

 

---------------------. "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 But 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.]

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 9, No. 1 (Summer 1979), 5-14.

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]

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.

Hoisington, Richard A. "Rails to Wolfeborough: A Condensed History of the Wolfeborough Railroad." Wolfeboro RR., 1884.

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

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).

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. "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).

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.