Transportation

  • Special Collections
    The NH and Durham Vertical Files were collected over ca. 30 years and contain materials accumulated mostly by subject rather than creator. The New Hampshire and Durham vertical files contain historical information and publications covering a very wide…
  • Special Collections
    This collection consists primarily of Boston and Maine Railroad time tables, 1912-1964
  • Special Collections
    The Concord Railroad ran between Concord and Manchester, and was founded in 1835. In 1889/1890 it merged with the Boston, Concord, & Montreal Railroad and became the Concord & Montreal Railroad. Later this was absorbed into the Boston &…
  • Special Collections
    Boscawen is a small town in Merrimack County, NH, incorporated in 1760. The population in 1870 was 1,637. A single ca. 2"x3" notebook details road taxes for Highway District No. 5, dated 1868. It was kept by J.H. Flanders, whose name appears on the…
  • Special Collections
    In 1989, a group of people from Maine called the TrainRiders Northeast, began a grassroots movement to restore high-sped passenger rail service from Boston to Portland. In 1991, TrainRiders, through its political action committee, RailVision,…
  • University Archives
    The Commuter/Transfer Center, formerly called Off-Campus Housing, opened in 1979. Its purpose was to provide a wider range of support and services for the transfer and commuter students at UNH. Located in the Memorial Union Building, the center…
  • Special Collections
    Alan F. Kiepper was born in 1928. He was a prominant director in major public transit construction projects and their subsequent running in Richmond VA, Atlanta GA, and New York City. He also served as Associate Professor of Public Administration at…
  • Special Collections
    Minutes of the directors and officers of the failed Mt. Belknap Railroad Corporation comprise 26 pages of the volume. They pertain to the corporations financial matters, the election of officials, and the proceedings of annual meetings. There is no evidence that the railroad was ever built.
  • Special Collections
    The creator of this register is anonymous. A register from an unidentified Portsmouth, N.H.-based shipping company which serviced both the Appledore and Oceanic Hotels on the Isles of Shoals. The register, which covers from July 2 to September 3, 1912, documents the movement of people and cargo…