Logging Railroads Archives - ScenicNH Photography LLC

Somersworth Machine Company Stove

Erin Paul Donovan — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:36:09 +0000

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Somersworth Machine Company Stove, Swift River Trail - Pictured here in 2010 at an abandoned campsite in the Horne Brook drainage in Livermore, New Hampshire, is an old stove made by the Somersworth Machine Company in Great Falls (today's Somersworth), New Hampshire. This stove is a protected artifact; the removal of historical artifacts from federal lands without a permit is a violation of federal law...[Continue reading]

Bartlett and Albany Railroad

Erin Paul Donovan — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:54:37 +0000

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Bartlett and Albany Railroad, New Hampshire - The Bartlett and Albany Railroad was a logging railroad in the White Mountains towns of Bartlett and Albany. On October 21, 1887, the New Hampshire legislature approved an act to incorporate the Bartlett and Albany Railroad. The incorporators of the railroad were H.N. Jose, John C. Small, Reuben Wescott, W. F. Milliken, Charles E. Jose, C.F. Buffum, John Gillis, and Frank George. In operation from 1887-1894, the railroad began along the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad (leased to the Maine Central Railroad in 1888) in Bartlett village, and it traveled in a southerly direction, over Bear Notch, ending at the Passaconaway settlement in Albany, near the Russell-Colbath homestead....[Continue reading]

Noyes & Goddard Stove (historical artifact)

Erin Paul Donovan — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:42:11 +0000

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Noyes & Goddard, Swift River Railroad - Seen here in 2010 is an old stove at the site of the Holland camp along the abandoned Swift River logging Railroad in the New Hampshire White Mountains. This is a Noyes & Goddard stove (1886-1902 +/-) produced in Waterville, Maine. The stove model is "Maine". Incorporated on March 25, 1903, and operated by the Conway Company, the roughly twenty-five mile long Swift River Railroad was in operation from 1906-1916...[Continue reading]

Woodstock & Thornton Gore Railroad

Erin Paul Donovan — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:51:34 +0000

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Woodstock & Thornton Gore Railroad - Incorporated in March 1909, this short-lived logging railroad, operated by the Woodstock Lumber Company, a subsidy of the Parker-Young Company, began at the Woodstock Lumber Company’s sawmill (built in 1906 by the Publishers Paper Company) on the western bank of the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock, New Hampshire. From the mill it traveled roughly 7 miles into the Eastman Brook drainage; traveling through the northern portion of Thornton, known as the “Gore”, eventually ending in Livermore...[Continue reading]

East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, Utility Poles

Erin Paul Donovan — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:33:45 +0000

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East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, Utility Poles - Telephone wires were strung from utility poles along the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad to the numerous logging camps. In some areas along the railroad, side mounted wooden telephone peg holder pins nailed directly to trees were used in place of utility poles. Today, these utility poles are considered artifacts of the logging era....[Continue reading]

East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, Trestle 17

Erin Paul Donovan — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:01:34 +0000

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East Branch & Lincoln Railroad, Trestle 17 - Built in the early 1900s, probably 1906-1908 (one reference states 1908) trestle 17 was located along the Upper East Branch of the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad. It spanned the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River near the site of logging Camp 17. Camp 17 was located on the south side of the trestle. This trestle is within today’s Pemigewasset Wilderness...[Continue reading]