Hello, Since the 1980's I have been interested in learning more about "Iron Horse Park" in Billerica, which is where the "repair shops" and "roundhouse" were built for the "Boston & Maine Railroad." Every couple of years I try, again, to find out if anyone has ever written a document, or booklet, on the "repair shops" in New England, and I'm always told that none exist that they know of. The other important one, I've read, was in Concord, NH. Yesterday, I got looking on-line again, and I --still-- can't find anything important about the history of the "repair shops." About 5-6 years ago I wrote to the "Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society" in Lowell, MA, and asked if any article on the "repair shops" had ever been published in their magazine. I was told, No. So, yesterday, I e-mailed their archivist, and received a response this morning - still no article ! But, the member of the Society said that he thought the "repair shops" were built ~1911. * I thought I had read before that they were built in the late 1800's, but I have no memory of where I read that. Yesterday I rechecked the "history of Billerica" which was published in 1883. There is no mention of the "repair shops." It only has a brief mention of the "Boston & Lowell Railroad" starting up in 1835. * So, I was wondering if anyone can make suggestions of which libraries or societies I can write slow-mail letters to -- asking for information on the "repair shops" in New England. I would guess that many researchers have a loved one, relative, or ancestor who worked for the "railroads." And, perhaps, some died "on the job." My great-grandmother and her siblings had arrived in Nova Scotia as "home children" ~1875. ** She married another "home child" there in 1879, and came down to MA. One of her sisters married there ~1881 and had 10 children. But, shortly after the last child was born, her husband was killed in a "trainyard accident." I don't remember the details, but I think he had a "fatal fall" while a train was in the station. (1890's ?) And, one of the "family stories" told to my twice-orphaned grandmother, which most turned out to be lies, was that her birth-mother was killed in a train accident -- while traveling. It turned out to be a relative of the Adoptive mother who was killed that way. (I was told that I could visit the "archives" of the B&M RR Hist. Soc. and look through the records myself. Actually, I just read on-line yesterday that the "archives" have been moved from the "Mogan Center" to the "Lowell National Historic Park.") Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: Members of the Society will be at the "Lowell Folk Festival" in July - to show off an historic Telegraph equipment. * IF I could find information on the history of "Iron Horse Park," I could start reminding people of the upcoming "100th anniversary" of the "roundhouse." ** Just a reminder that between the 1860's and 1930's, over 100,000 unwanted children were shipped out of the United Kingdome and shipped to Canada. In the U.K. (Great Britain), they were referred to as "Child Migrants." In Canada, they were referred to as "British Home Children." (Many thousand more unwanted children were shipped to Australia, New Zealand, and other countries - wherever there was a "British Colony.") (Actually, "Britain" started this -- shipping out of unwanted chilren -- in the 1600's.)