New Hampshire Northcoast

Company History: NHN was established in 1986 to take over operation of part of Boston & Maine’s Conway Branch. It runs 42 miles from Rollinsford to Ossipee, New Hampshire. Traffic is mostly sand and gravel moving for the railroad’s parent company. After relying on a small fleet of GP9’s for a number of years, NHN now leans mostly on a pair of GP38-2’s and a GP18.

New Hampshire Northcoast (NHN) was established in 1986 with the purchase of an abandoned rail line which the company rebuilt into the current Class III freight railroad.

At its main facility on Rte 16 in Ossipee, NH, NHN occupies 43 acres of land with various side tracks for rail car storage, a facility for locomotive maintenance and a railcar repair shop. NHN owns 3 locomotives, a caboose and 78 hopper cars (100 tons) and various track maintenance equipment.

NHN owns and maintains 6 miles of yard track and 43 miles of track and sidings between Ossipee, NH and Rollinsford, NH. NHN connects with Pan Am Railways in Dover, NH. NHN provides daily service delivering sand and other aggregate products to Rochester, NH and Boston, MA. NHN also provides a daily freight service to various customers, including Harmac, Green View Technologies and Eastern Propane.

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