Covering Abandoned Branches of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Southern New Hampshire and Northeastern Mass.
Many thanks to Buddy Winiarz, current president of the Boston and Maine
Historical Society for the use these fine pictures from his
personal collection.
These were taken on June 11 of 1990.
Click here for a picture gallery of this turntable. All images in the gallery are clickable to view in high (1024*768) resolution.
What's
New?
Travel
Log
The
Worcester, Nashua, and
Portland Division Main Page
In addition to the WN&P, I have covered the following lines..
Eastern
Route
The
Salem and Lowell RR
Manchester
and Lawrence Branch
Framingham
and Lowell
Portsmouth
Branch
Newburyport
Branch
Western
Route
Amesbury
Branch
Georgetown
Branch
Merrimac
Branch
South
Reading Branch
Essex
Railroad
Portsmouth
and Dover
SpecialFeatures
The American Freedom Train in Plaistow and Lawrence 4/75
Short Quicktime Movies of Trains
Danvers
State Insane Asylum
The
Asylum Behind the Asylum Station on the Essex Railroad
Bedford Mass and the former Monson #3
Benson's Animal Farm Gallery 1 (2003)
Another Look at Bedford MA a Year Later Summer 2003
Ayer Mass and the former Fort Devens
East Kingston Station - Quick Picture Tour
Chart/Process
Engineering Plaistow
NH
Interesting Booklet on Edaville Railroad from the 70's
Very
interesting article about
a head on collision between two trains on the WN&P in Hampstead
NH
High
Resolution Version of same article
1920
ALA Maps
These ALA maps are very detailed and show
all of the
rail lines as well. A very useful resource for research.
Industrial Archaeology
8-15-03 Amesbury MA
Reichold Chemical Ballardvale MA
Links
Index of Picture
Galleries
Thanks for stopping by. My interest is abandoned railroad lines. This page is an ongoing project to document what is still around. I have been updating the page almost every day, sometimes every other day.
Unfortunately old railroad right of ways, abutments, stations, freight houses, and other remains of railroads of the past, have been disappearing. I hope to document as much of what's left as is possible.
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The Lowell and Lawrence - Tewksbury Ma - 11-20-05
Nice shot of a small bridge carrying the Essex RR over the Crane River in Danversport MA.
The Waters River Trestle carrying the former Essex RR over the
Crane
River between Danvers and Peabody MA.
Click here for a nice
picture gallery
of this trestle including closeups from the Peabody end.