New Hampshire Northcoast Corporation

The New Hampshire Northcoast ( NHN ) is a local U.S. railway company in the states of New Hampshire and Maine. The company is based Ossipee (New Hampshire). With the two locomotives of the 9R types EMD GP and GP 38-2, the former 66 km long stretch of the Boston and Maine Railroad between Ossipee and Rollinsford is operated (New Hampshire ) ( Conway Branch). Transfer point with the Pan Am Railways is Dover ( New Hampshire).

In August 1985, the Boston & Maine presented because of the poor condition of the route a traffic. The quarry company Boston Sand & Gravel Co., however, was dependent on the route to carry away sand and gravel from the pit at Ossipee. For this reason, she founded the New Hampshire North Coast Co. and adopted on May 27, 1986, operating on. In 1997 the property passed to the route to the NHN. In the years 1994 to 1998, the track was mixed with support from state funding again in a good condition. In addition, a workshop building was built in Ossipee.

The main cargo are sand, gravel and crushed rock in trains, especially to Boston. The annual transport volume was 1996 7.000 carloads.