May 2006 flood. Looking upriver at the railroad bridge over the Merrimack River in Haverhill from the Bradford side. Water is quite high and moving fast. Fortunately the wall that was built after the 1936 flood held and kept the downtown section from becoming flooded.
 

Eagle eyed Lisa found this archaeological treasure, abandoned turntable and roundhouse in Portsmouth NH. Not that unusual to find a turntable pit, but to still have the bridge and the operators shack is quite unusual. There are only a few stalls of the roundhouse left because of a fire about 60 years ago.

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

Waters River Trestle

Street Railways

Model Railroad Layouts

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

Billerica Shops (Early 2003)

East Kingston Station - Quick Picture Tour

Chart/Process Engineering Plaistow NH
Article about the plant closing

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

My list of lines to cover, hopefully in the near future.
Nashua Acton and Boston
Newburyport City RR
Andover and Wilmington
Essex Branch
Greenville Branch
Lowell and Lawrence
Brookline and Pepperell
Suncook Valley
Cocheco RR
 

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.

My favorite line has been the Worcester, Nashua, and Portland, in particular the 57 or so miles of it that ran through New Hampshire. I will be doing other lines as I get time.

What you'll find on this page is a collection of pictures that I have taken, text, as well as maps that show where I've been and what I've found. There's about 700MB or so online and it's still growing.

I have started a notification list. This is an informal list that I maintain in my Hotmail account and use it to notify regular readers of changes, updates, and stuff. Occasionally I'll include some photos. If you're interested in getting on the list, please send me an email. My address is at the bottom of the page.

I've gotten some very nice emails from people over the last few months. Thanks very much for writing. I may not have much time to update the page but I do answer emails, usually the same day. Feel free to write.

If you have any question or comments about the site, please send me an email message.
scott_currier@hotmail.com

The Lowell and Lawrence - Tewksbury Ma - 11-20-05
 
 
 

Another fine picture from Lisa, this one is of a spur that used to serve a company off of Adams St in Danvers, MA.. This spur left the Wakefield to Newburyport line near Holten St. and crossed Crane Brook on an embankment. The spur continued across Adams St, thru someones backyard and then into the plant.
 

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.

Another fine picture courtesy of Lisa McCauley. Sepo heading east, crossing over route 85 in Exeter.