Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society

The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society is composed of people who share a common interest in the history and operations of the Boston and Maine Railroad and other related railroads.  READ MORE

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The Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society maintains its physical archive of railroad photos and documents at 40 French Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.

General Information About the B&MRRHS Archives


B&MRRHS ONLINE ARCHIVES

The items linked on this page are representative of the types of materials that can be found at our physical archive at Lowell

PART 1. REFERENCE MATERIALS

Updated February 22, 2023

PART 2. RAILROAD DOCUMENTS ON-LINE

Boston & Maine Railroad

Accounting Department 

Contract Bureau

Updated January 2020

Employee Magazines and Magazine Articles

Engineering Department

Updated July 2021

Executive Department

Updated July 20, 2023

Corporate History

Federal Railroad Administration

Updated January 2020

Finance Department

Interstate Commerce Commission

Legal Department

Updated January 2020

Marketing and Sales

Updated December 2020

Mechanical Department

Operating Department

Updated February 22, 2023

Public Relations Department

Updated February 18, 2020

Standard Plans

Updated July 2021

Traffic Department

Maine Central Railroad

The Maine Central Railroad has had a close relationship with the Boston and Maine Railroad throughout its history. The Eastern Railroad gained control of Maine Central in 1871. B&M leased ERR in 1884 and thereby controlled MEC. When, in 1907, New Haven gained control of the B&M, MEC also came into the New Haven sphere. In 1914 a group of investors purchased a controlling interest in MEC from B&M and independence was re-established. This notwithstanding, from 1933 to 1955 the two railroads entered into an agreement to be operated as separate railroads under a common management and shared many general officers. In the Guilford/PanAm era the two roads have been operated as a single system.

Most of the MEC materials that we present in our On-Line Archives were submitted and scanned by Archives Committee member David Ashenden.

Maine Central Employees Magazine

We are grateful to Dick Glueck of the New England Steam Corporation for providing many issues of the MEC Employee Magazine for scanning and for giving us permission to make scans available on our website. Additional issues came from Rick Conard in 2022. Many hours of scanning time were contributed by Archives Committee member David Ashenden. His project of scanning and indexing the magazine is ongoing.

Maine Central Railroad Time Tables


Executive Department

Annual Reports FYE 1896 through 1893 with leases, mortgages. Google Books

Predecessor Railroads

On-Line Photo Archive





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