NHRHTA Publications:
The NHRHTA has published the following items on the Worcester area:
Books:
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Includes a 1956 map and a photo of the Worcester round house. 2 pages.
Shoreliner®:
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- Volume 4 Issue 4 (Fall) 1973
- "Norwich and Worcester Branch Operations" -- Discusses the history of New Haven freight and passenger operations. 4 pages with photos.
- Volume 6 Issue 3 (Summer) 1975
- "The Railroad Stations of Worcester" -- The history of the various stations which served Worcester, MA, culminating in Union Station. 6 pages with photos (including front cover) and diagram.
- Volume 12 Issue 2 1981
- Front cover photo of Y-3 #3414 on the Norwich & Worcester at Worcester, MA, on June 23, 1950.
- Volume 14 Issue 2 1983
- Color centerspread of General Electric's 'More Power to America Special' at Worcester, MA, in 1950.
- Volume 19 Issue 1 1988
- "The Circus Comes to Town" -- Photo story of the Ringling Brothers, and Barnum & Bailey circus transported via the New Haven and the Boston & Maine between New York City and the Boston Garden at North Station, circa 1938. New Haven photos are in the Auburn - South Worcester area. 6 pages with photos.
- 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. 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. 5 pages with photos.
- Volume 22 Issue 2 1991
- "Riding the Rails in a Diesel Engine on the Worcester to New Haven Run" -- Reprint of a Worcester Sunday Telegram Feature Parade article from May 30, 1948, about the new Alco FA/FB 0400s replacing steam on the New Haven. 4 pages with photos.
- Volume 23 Issue 3 1992
- "Union Station, Worcester -- Saved?" Reprint from the January 22nd, 1993 edition of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette on efforts to restore the historic station. 2 pages.
- Volume 26 Issue 1 1995
- Two B/W photos of New Haven sign advertisements on bridges, one in Worcester and the other in Uxbridge.