Abandoned Passenger Railroads - White Mountains, New Hampshire

Passenger Railroads, White Mountains

Passenger railroads in the New Hampshire White Mountains date back to the 1800s, and they played an important role in 19th-century tourism and transportation in the White Mountains. The Boston & Maine Railroad would eventually dominate most of New Hampshire, but railroads such as the Maine Central Railroad and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad were just as important. Before the automobile became popular in the early 1900s, railroads were a way of life in the White Mountains. This work focuses on the history of these abandoned and active passenger railroads.

Boston & Maine, Mt Washington Branch

Boston and Maine Railroad Trestle - Fabyans, New Hampshire

Boston & Maine Railroad, Mt Washington Branch - Built by the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, the thirteen and a half mile long Mt Washington Branch was completed in 1874. This branch began at Wing Road in Bethlehem, New Hampshire and ended just east of Fabayns in Bretton Woods. The ...

Maine Central Railroad, Mountain Division

Maine Central Railroad - Mt. Willard Section House, White Mountains New Hampshire

Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. This work focuses on the section of railroad between Carroll and Bartlett (Bretton Woods, Crawford Notch). Chartered in 1867 as the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, the railroad was reorganized as the Portland & Ogdensburg Railway in 1886. The railroad ...

Mount Washington Cog, Biodiesel Locomotive

Mount Washington Cog Railway - A few weeks back I made a trip to the summit of Mount Washington in the New Hampshire White Mountains to photograph the Biodiesel locomotive that is now in operation on the Cog Railway. This is the Cog Railway's first Biodiesel locomotive, and it is ...

Profile & Franconia Notch Railroad

The Profile & Franconia Notch Railroad operated from 1879-1921. It serviced only the Profile House in Franconia Notch; a spur line also serviced Bethlehem Village. Originally built as a narrow-gauge line, this roughly ten-mile long railroad began along the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad (Boston & Maine Railroad), at Pierce’s ...

Books

East Branch & Lincoln Railroad Book

by Erin Paul Donovan With the use of black and white and color photographs, this book explores the history of the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, while showing the abandoned ...

Franconia Notch Book

by Erin Paul Donovan In 1805, a member of a survey crew working on building a road through New Hampshire's Franconia Notch walked down to Ferrin's Pond (today's Profile Lake), ...