NHRHTA Publications:
The NHRHTA has published the following items on the Old Colony Northern Division:
Books:
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Includes a 1939 map of Framingham, MA. 1 page.
Shoreliner®:
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- Volume 19 Issue 1 1988
- "Old Colony Northern Division" -- History of the rail lines between Mansfield, Framingham, Marlboro, Fitchburg and Lowell. Includes photo features on Framingham, Medfield Junction and Walpole. 20 pages with photos (some color, including color centerspread at Clinton, MA) and maps.
- Volume 19 Issue 2 1988
- "Trolley Stop: Trolley Freight and Express in Southern New England -- Eastern Massachusetts" -- Includes service on the Boston Elevated Railway and the Boston & Worcester Street Railway, with a photo at Framingham. Included is a short discussion of the 1919 molasses disaster in Boston. 4 pages with photos, map, route list and roster.
- Volume 20 Issue 3 1990
- "Trolley Stop: Trolley Freight and Express in Southern New England -- Central Massachusetts" -- The story of trolley freight operation on the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, including the Fitchburg area. 5 pages with photos.
- Volume 25 Issue 1 1994
- "Memories of Medfield Junction" -- Donald E. Penniman and L. Darrow Park recall growing up near the junction in the 1930s and '40s. 17 pages with photos.
- Volume 28 Issue 1 1997
- "One Car Trains" -- Southboro, MA, photo of 4-4-0 #1271 with single coach enroute from Framingham to Marlboro on August 8, 1934. 1 page.
- Volume 32 Issue 2
- "Ginger Ale Express -- The New Haven's First 'Unit Train'" -- Reviews the precedent-setting special freight train operated by the New Haven for the Clicquot Club Ginger Ale Company between Millis and Lowell, MA, starting July 16, 1927. 7 pages with map and photos.
