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Railroad - Boston, Expansion, Industry: Three Massachusetts railroads were chartered and under construction in 1830, at first showing a strong affinity for British practice. The Boston and Lowell, Boston and Providence, and Boston and Worcester railroads radiated from the metropolis to towns no more than 70 km (45 mile...
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Expansion into the interior The first phase of American railroad development, from 1828 until about 1850, most commonly involved connecting two relatively large cities that were fairly close neighbours. New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., or Syracuse, New York, and Roche...
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Documentary History of American Water-works Introduction Historical Background Chronology Geography Biography Technology Ownership and Financing General Bibliography Bibliography Railroads Railroads Railroads using steam locomotives made their appearance in the United States in 1829 and became widely used until aft...
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Railroads and Mills
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Railroads and the MillsJamie H. EvesThe Industrial Revolution relied on cheap transportation of goods in bulk. The textile factories that dominated eastern Connecticut during its Industrial Age (c. 1800-1985) needed to haul in the raw cotton, wool, and silk from which they made their products, and carry away the finish...
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One important artifact of the Age of Rail in Connecticut is a large-scale, cloth-backed, elegantly engraved 1902 wall map titled “The National Publishing Company’s Railroad, Post Office, Township and County Map of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, with Distances in Figures Compiled from the Latest Government...
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Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North Station vicinity, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
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Online Archives — Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society
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The Online Archives page is divided into a section for BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD and related roads and a section for MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD and related roads. The Boston and Maine section is further divided into Part 1. Reference Materials and Part 2. Railroad Documents. The linked items below represent only a small p...
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Lakes Region New Hampshire Castles
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The early railroads played a huge part in the development of the lakes region in New Hampshire long ago. The railroad system gave the wealthy ability to vacation at Lake Winnipesaukee
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‘Railroads’ – Lake Winnipesaukee NH During the early 1800s, the growth of the textile industry and an increasing population brought about the need for better transportation of raw material to New England’s manufacturing centers. In 1830, a project was proposed to build a railroad between Boston and Lowell, a distance ...
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Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the G...
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Citation preview American Kailroads JOHN F. STOVER is Professor Emeritus of History at Purdue University and the author of several hooks, including The Lije and Decline of the American Railroad (1971); History of the Illinois Central Railroad ( I 975); Iron Road t o the West (1978); and Histoly of the Baltimore and O...
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Mass Central Rail Trail Rail-Trail History
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The Massachusetts Central Railroad was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938, but the 104-mile corridor is being reborn as a cross-state rail-trail. Currently, nearly 60 miles from Boston to Northampton...
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A Brief History The Norwottuck Rail-Trail comprises two different sections of rights-of-way originally owned by two railroads. The segment east of Northampton (known as the Mass Central Section) is roughly 10 miles, and for many years was owned by the Boston & Maine. It was originally built, however, by a predecessor ...
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MASSACHUSETTS Submitted to: The Middlesex Canal Association Douglas Bruce McHenry, Secretary 15 Chilton Street Belmont, Massachusetts, 02478 Submitted by: The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. 210 Lonsdale Avenue Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860 September , 1998 ABSTRACT At the request of the Middlesex Canal...
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Unofficial Boston & Maine Railroad Page Copyright 1997 - 2021 by James B. Van Bokkelen . This document may be duplicated and distributed for non-commercial purposes only, all other rights reserved. Credit: Dwight Smith took the Black & White period photos used on the Unofficial B&M Page. Table of Contents Introduct...
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American Railway history
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US Rail History for Idiots v.2 1800's: People begin thinking about trains and some are made. They begin pretty well. Later huge booms come in and rails replace canals as the main mode of transportation. Train tracks are made at an astounding rate and by the latter half on the 1800's there were tracks going from Califo...
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My two-year-old son loves trains. One of his first words was “train”. And, he likes to announce the arrival and departure of trains, with the word “train”, repeatedly, while pointing. The fascination people have with trains can be traced back much further than today’s living generations. In fact, before planes and aut...
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American Railroad – Buildings of New England
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Posts about American Railroad written by Buildings of New England
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Trinity Place Station was the Boston & Albany Railroad’s second depot for trains running outbound from its newly completed South Station. The depot was designed by Alexander Wadsworth “Waddy” Longfellow, Jr., who from Harvard University in 1876, later studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a...
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
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Railroad Beginnings in the U.S. Transporting goods was the driving force in the development of railroads in the United State. Trains could potentially reach more markets faster. Some of the early railroad cars were pulled by horses. The first railroad that was constructed for the transportation of freight and passenge...
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1845 – The Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, organized by the citizens of those towns, is chartered on March 24. Construction begins on August 20. 1846 – The 6.6-mile Lexington & West Cambridge opens between the Fitchburg Railroad’s main line in West Cambridge and Lexington Center on August 25. There are at first s...
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A Brief History of the Falmouth Station — Falmouth EDIC
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Cape Cod Central Railroad The first New England railroads, a trio of lines radiating from Boston to Lowell, Worcester, and Providence, were completed in 1835, and rail service reached Plymouth in 1845. A line from Middleborough to Wareham and then to Sandwich was completed in May 1848. Cape Cod did not get a railroad ...
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July 1, 1862 Malvern Hill, southeast of Richmond VA “Faugh a Ballagh!” (Clear the Way!) the Irishmen of the 69th Regiment cried as they charged downhill into the teeth of the enemy assault. The previous days had seen a lot of fighting across the Virginia Peninsula, as the Union Army attempted to reach Richmond and f...
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In September 1851, Boston threw an enormous party, a party big enough to span three days.  After 15 years of development, the railroad network centered on Boston stretched out in every direction, linking the port of Boston to the American Midwest and the interior of Canada, with the Cunard line’s steamers giving access...
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Jake: [0:00] Hi listeners. Before we start today, did you know that you could help Hub History win a fan favorite award at the 2020 Boston Preservation Awards? Just go to bostonpreservation.org/fan-favorite or look for the link in this week’s show notes. Vote early and often. Intro Music Jake: [0:26] Welcome to H...
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The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world: the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825. Most of the railway track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2015 had a network of 15,760 kilometres (9,790 mi) of standard-gauge lines, of which 5,272 kilometres (3,276 mi) were electrif...
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Remembering the Boston & Maine Railroad
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New England's Boston & Maine Railroad history and major events remembered
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BILL IN EQUITY, filed on the 14th day of June 1852, by the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation, against the Salem and Lowell Railroad Company, the Boston and Maine Railroad, and the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad Company. The bill alleged that by an act passed on the 5th of June 1830, (St. 1830, c. 4,) a charter of i...
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Railroad Beginnings in the U.S. Transporting goods was the driving force in the development of railroads in the United State. Trains could potentially reach more markets faster. Some of the early railroad cars were pulled by horses. The first railroad that was constructed for the transportation of freight and passenge...
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7 Transportation, Land, Industry In previous chapters, we have examined the social and political changes the United States experienced in its first fifty years. These changes were caused by many factors, and important among the causes are the economic and demographic changes enabled by transportation and technology at...
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Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was erected in 1764 for military purposes at the Niagara portage in Lewiston, New York. The builder was Capt. John Montressor, ...
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Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was erected in 1764 for military purposes at the Niagara portage in Lewiston, New York. The builder was Capt. John Montressor, ...
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Lowell Line
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A second, very early railway, the Boston & Providence (1835) which features the Canton Viaduct in Canton, MA, had Capt William Gibbs McNeill as Chief Engineer. He was the brother of Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, immortalized as "Whistler's Mother" by James A. McNeill Whistler; her and George's son. Maj. Whistler had ...
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Going to Boston, MA, in the beginning of Nov, are there any Hotspots close to Boston? Coming from Norway, and without any knowledge about the city and the surroundings, it would be nice with some advice on where to go, and perhaps not to go. We are planning to rent a car. Any thing on Cape Cod, or is it just Bike Trai...
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Transportation & Logistics Solutions
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Railroad history - Conrail, it isn't quite dead
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Railroad history is one of my hobbies and somewhat of a passion. Like some people have favorite sports teams, I have favorite railroads, all of which are fallen-flags, i.e., they no longer exist. Conrail grew out of the ashes of the largest bankruptcy at the time involving the Penn Central Transportation Company (form...
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The path of the current rail trail originally operated as the single-track Worcester & Nashua Railroad starting 1848. The track was extended to Portland, Maine, in 1874 and was taken over by the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1886. The original granite markers along the trail give the distance to Worcester and Portland. I...
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New England
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c. 1600: Passaconaway, a Pennacook chief living at Pawtucket Falls, emerges as leader of the Merrimack Valley’s native peoples. 1635: English settlers move into the valley. 1652: The area called Wamesit, between the Merrimack and Concord rivers, is declared Indian territory. 1655: Chelmsford is chartered on the Merr...
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< HOLDEN HISTORY A Brief on Railroads in Holden In 1869, the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad (BB&G) commenced construction of a railroad from Worcester (at Barber), through Holden, to Gardner. This 26-mile line, which cost 1.2 million dollars to build, opened in 1871. It was extended 10 miles to Winchendon in Janu...
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https://trolleymuseum.org/
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World's First and Largest Electric Railway Museum
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Seashore Trolley Museum is the world's first and largest electric railway museum, with over 350 vehicles that span decades of public transportation history.
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All Aboard! Seashore Trolley Museum is open every Wednesday-Sunday through October 27. Check out our 2024 hours HERE. Railbike Excursions with Revolution Rail Co. also offers railbike rides every Thursday-Sunday. To learn more and book your railbike ride, Click Here. As the first and largest Electric Railway Museum i...
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Boston & Lowell Railroad No. 20 BILLERICA (4-4-0) c1885
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The Men of the Boston, Lowell and Nashua Line – Train Life in the 1870s
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My two-year-old son loves trains.  One of his first words was "train".  And, he likes to announce the arrival and departure of trains, with the word "train", repeatedly, while pointing. The fascination people have with trains can be traced back much further than today's living generations.  In fact, before planes and a...
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My two-year-old son loves trains. One of his first words was “train”. And, he likes to announce the arrival and departure of trains, with the word “train”, repeatedly, while pointing. The fascination people have with trains can be traced back much further than today’s living generations. In fact, before planes and aut...
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A complete guide to the history of Lowell's neighborhoods: what they are, where they are, and where they came from.
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Without its rivers, there would be no history of Lowell’s neighborhoods. There would be no Lowell. When a group of entrepreneurs and investors carved Lowell from East Chelmsford in 1826, they started with the 2,800 acres of land where the Merrimack and Concord Rivers meet. Those first 2,800 acres became Lowell’s downt...
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Rail History – Buildings of New England
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Posts about Rail History written by Buildings of New England
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Historic train stations are among some of my favorite types of buildings as they transport you to a different time (no pun intended). The Waterbury Railroad Depot was built in 1875 by the Central Vermont Railroad, connecting Montreal, Quebec with New London, CT and to other lines to Boston and Albany on the way. Waterb...
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Harvard Harnesses the Heavens (episode 158)
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Since we “fell back” to Standard Time this past weekend, Boston has been forced to adjust to 4:30 sunsets.  To help us understand why the sun sets so early in Boston in the winter and what we could do about it, we’re going to replay a classic episode about how the idea of time zones … Continue reading Harvard Harnesses...
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Since we “fell back” to Standard Time this past weekend, Boston has been forced to adjust to 4:30 sunsets. To help us understand why the sun sets so early in Boston in the winter and what we could do about it, we’re going to replay a classic episode about how the idea of time zones and standard time was born in Boston,...
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Boston and Albany Railroad Map Collection Finding Aid : Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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Background on Boston and Albany Railroad The Boston and Albany Railroad was formed by a series of mergers beginning in 1867 that subsumed both the first commercial line in New England, the Boston and Worcester Railroad (chartered 1831) and the Western Railroad (1833), the most important line in Western Massachusetts. ...
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., A pioneer railroad and how it was built.
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism
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The Railroads: The First Big Business Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, local railroads around the world served as a means of conveying coal and iron ore from mines to low-lying coastal areas. Horses drew wagons along rails made of wood and later iron. In the 1820s, the English introduced the first successful st...
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Suburbanization, 1870-1915
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Between 1870 and 1915, Lexington's population more than doubled - from 2,270 to 5,538. During this period, the improved access offered by the railroad continued to have a major impact on development in town, transforming the rural town into a railroad suburb: 1867: the name of the railroad was changed from the Lexingt...
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The Town & the City: Lowell before and after The Civil War
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The City of Lowell, MA (01850)
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The 4th largest city in Mass., Lowell, features excellent dining, shopping, culture, and nightlife. Find demographic data, history, and the best places to visit.
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About Lowell, Massachusetts Located 27 miles northwest of Boston, Lowell is the fourth largest city in Massachusetts. Founded as the nation’s first planned manufacturing center for textiles, its strategic location at the intersections of routes 495, 93, and 3, along with its commuter rail link to Boston, makes Lowell ...
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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
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The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of the New York and New Haven and Hartford and New...
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Boston & Lowell Railroad Boston Depot Train Hall, Circa 1880
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Date: Circa 1880Source Collection: Walker Transportation Collection of Historic Beverley Boston in Transit - The BookFigure 4.14 - Boston &amp; Lowell Terminal Train Hall, Circa 1880The train hall of the third depot of the Boston &amp; Lowell is occupied by two trains of passenger coaches. In the distance, large round
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Laying Down the Principles: Management A system of centralized management was born from the need to direct the flow of capital and run large-scale railroad operations safely, efficiently, and profitably. The fact that operations did not occur in a single place, but rather over widely dispersed areas made management bo...
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The Town & the City: Lowell before and after The Civil War
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The Railroad in Ashland
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In retrospect it is remarkable how quickly the railroad network developed in New England and how quickly it reached Holderness village. The Boston & Lowell Railroad, chartered in 1830, was the first New England steam railroad to actually be completed, with the first train arriving in Lowell in June, 1835. The Nashua &...
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National Streetcar Museum
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Lowell, Massachusetts is home to the National Streetcar Museum, a satellite of Maine's New England Electric Railway Historical Society's Seashore Trolley Museum. Located in the Mack Building across the street from Lowell National Historical Park, the museum offers both exhibits and trolley ride tours of historic Lowell...
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History of Lowell Public Transportation Prompted by growth and suburbanization, Lowell's first public transportation was established in 1864 by the Lowell Horse Railroad Company, with a line connecting the city center to the neighborhoods of Belvidere to the east and Pawtucket Falls to the west. These first streetcars...
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The Town & the City: Lowell before and after The Civil War
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The abandoned and existing lines in my area a bit of RR Tycoon in the early days!
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2023-09-11T05:39:42+01:00
The B&M and its predecessor competitors played a game of Railroad Tycoon with the smallest of the lines gaining control of the competition and winning in...
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The B&M and its predecessor competitors played a game of Railroad Tycoon with the smallest of the lines gaining control of the competition and winning in the end. Today, the B&M no longer exists sadly due to Guilford and later Pan Am Railways destroying much of the rail infrastructure in the region, and more recently w...
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And This Is Good Old Boston: Lost Train Stations: Boston and Lowell
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Map of the Boston & Lowell Railroad System and its Principal Connections, circa 1890
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This map represents the spread of the railroad system in the Northeast by the end of the nineteenth century. It shows the northern United States showing cities and towns and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. This line was chartered in 1830 and opened in 1835. In 1841 a second track was laid. From the...
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Everyone is a learner! The offices of the Collaborative for Educational Services are on Pocumtuc land, part of the Nipmuc Nation. Learn about your own community using the Native Land interactive map.
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Boston & Lowell Railroad System Map 1886 (New England with Detail of White Mountains Region of New Hampshire)
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WardMaps LLC
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OUR PRODUCTS We sell both antique maps and fine art reproductions of the maps in our collection. Select "Authentic Antique Map" from the online purchase options to purchase the real deal, an antique map produced years ago. See below for details, including pricing and lead times, about our maps, fine art reproductions,...
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U.S., Amtrak and Others: Will Brightline work in places such as New England, and is Boston really the Hub of the Universe?
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2023-12-03T01:39:58+00:00
A former Penn Central, now Amtrak, heritage locomotive leads new Amtrak power and nearly-new Amfleet passenger cars through Providence, Rhode Island in 1978. Wikimedia Commons photo. By William Lin…
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By William Lindley, Guest Commentator; December 2, 2023 Brightline in Florida has refuted the naysayers of profitable intercity trains. As we await its ongoing results from the winter tourist season and the next year of full operation, one might well pose the question: Is Florida unique? Or might the conventional wisd...
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History of the B&M Railroad — Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society
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The invention of the steam railroad in the 19th Century radically expanded human mobility and commerce. By “annihilating distance” the railroad forever changed the American landscape and patterns of business and domestic life. Originating in the idea of constructing a continuous inland route between Boston and Portland...
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The Many Faces of North Station – The West End Museum
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For tens of thousands of daily commuters, North Station is a final destination to work and a starting point for home. For many others, it is a stop along the way to somewhere else. But few of today’s commuters know that over the past two centuries, there have actually been several train stations in the West End– built ...
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The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
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For tens of thousands of daily commuters, North Station is a final destination to work and a starting point for home. For many others, it is a stop along the way to somewhere else. But few of today’s commuters know that over the past two centuries, there have actually been several train stations in the West End– built ...
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Boston & Lowell Railroad
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Will Boston ever build the North-South Rail Link?
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The rail link could unify public transit up and down the New England corridor. But are Mass. lawmakers ready for another tunnel project?
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Practically speaking, Boston’s commuter rail system is actually two separate systems. One extends from South Station down the Worcester, Needham, Fairmount, Franklin, Providence/Stoughton, Middleborough/Lakeville, Kingston, and Greenbush lines. The other stretches from North Station along the Fitchburg, Lowell, Haverhi...
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Connecticut Legislature Archives
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Billerica & Bedford Railroad
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America’s First Two-Foot Common-Carrier Railway This overview of the Billerica & Bedford Railroad first appeared in the October 1996 issue of “Bedford Depot News,” the newsletter of the Friends of Bedford Depot Park. Bedford’s Two-Footer Was the Country’s First Researched by Friends of Bedford Depot Park August 31,...
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Boston, MA – North Station (BON) – Great American Stations
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Boston-North Station is one of three Amtrak stations located within the city of Boston. It only serves the Downeaster, which links Boston with Brunswick, Maine, via Portland. During the fall, riders receive a dazzling show as the leaves outside their windows turn colors and produce a fleeting mosaic of rich oranges, ye...
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Medford Branch Railroad
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When they were building the boston and lowell railroad in the early 1830s, railroads were very new. In choosing the route to lowell they made the decision to bypass medford square and instead go through the much less populated west medford, primarily because people didn't like how smoky, noisy, and loud railroads were ...
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When they were building the boston and lowell railroad in the early 1830s, railroads were very new. In choosing the route to lowell they made the decision to bypass medford square and instead go through the much less populated west medford, primarily because people didn't like how smoky, noisy, and loud railroads were ...
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History of Lowell, Massachusetts
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Lowell is a historic Massachusetts city located on the Merrimack River in Middlesex county about 30 miles north of Boston. Incorporated in the 19th century, Lowell was a mill town named after businessman Francis Cabot Lowell, inventor of a manufacturing system known as the Lowell System. Lowell Mass, illustration publi...
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Lowell is a historic Massachusetts city located on the Merrimack River in Middlesex county about 30 miles north of Boston. Incorporated in the 19th century, Lowell was a mill town named after businessman Francis Cabot Lowell, inventor of a manufacturing system known as the Lowell System. Before it became a mill town,...