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date This section contains other articles that either did not quite make it into the newsletter or were inappropriate for the newsletter. This directory can be used as an index to articles in a similar way to the Newsletter index the newsletter archive
1939-09-10 The official accident report of the incident in 1939 when loco 3666 plunged off the bridge into the Piscatqua river at Portsmouth NH
2006-01
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The program from the Walker Transportation Exhibition of Frey Locos in Dec 2005 - Feb 2006
2006-01 A long article from the Boston Sunday Globe (1/22/2006) color section about the future of Commuter Rail
2006-01 David Beardslee's letter about the Newburyport City Railroad, the trolley on PI and the coal pocket etc
2002 Malden Station Hear how the station travelled down the track (instead of the train) in April 2002
2002 Shoreliners Read the history of the remarkable Shoreliners -- and sadly how they came to eventually came to be disliked by most
2002 Newburyport Trails Battis park(2002Q3) - The good work being carried (physically and politically) in the cause of converting the old railroads to cycle paths
2002 MBTA Franchise
MBTA Fanchise Contenders (2002Q4)
MBTA Chooses MBCR (2002Q4)
Read about the three groups that are bidding for the MBTA franchise
2002 Bullet Train Bullet Train for California and Florida (2002Q4) - Read how the movement for fast electric rail MAY make for very fast trains
2002 lumber to tourism Lumber Lines to Tourist Lines(2002Q4) - The history of the lumber railroads in the White Mountains -- and the tourist railroads that have emerged from them.
2002 clip bridge The wrong line - and the bridge gets clipped
2002 Old Orchard Winter Stopping(2002Q4) Old Orchard Residents want the Downeaster to stop in the winter to !
2002 Downeaster Progress The Downeaster is doing better than expected -- read all about it
2002 Cape Cod ? An examination of the possiblity of returning passenger traffic to Cape Cod