The Up-Country Line

History of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad and the financial machinations that kept it afloat despite years of losses. The BC&M was the last wood-burning railroad in the US and the book includes a chapter detailing how the engines were fired. The BC&M also owned the Mt. Washington Railroad, an interurban electric railway, a streetcar line, steamboats, three hotels, logging railroads and a horse-drawn stagecoach line. Packed with black and white photos, maps, rosters, and ephemera. 64 pages.