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The Mohawk Trail began as a Native American trade route which connected Atlantic tribes with tribes in Upstate New York and beyond. It followed the Millers River , Deerfield River and crossed the Hoosac Range , in the area that is now northwestern Massachusetts .
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The railroad was incorporated on April 17, 1826, [1] as the Mohawk & Hudson Company and opened for public service on August 9, 1831. On April 19, 1847, the company name was changed to the Albany & Schenectady Railroad. The railroad was consolidated into the New York Central Railroad on May 17, 1853.
New York and Putnam Railroad (New York Central Railroad) Town of Edwards Nature Trail? St. Lawrence County: Gouverneur and Oswegatchie Railroad (New York Central Railroad) [18] Uncle Sam Bikeway: 3 miles (4.8 km) Troy: Boston and Maine Railroad: Vestal Rail Trail: 2.2 miles (3.5 km) Broome County: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Massachusetts has at least 69 rail-trails, covering 347 miles. A massive new project proposed by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, called the Landline, seeks to connect these trails, creating a 1,400-mile network of greenways and foot trails within the Boston region.
The other Mohawk, No. 3001, is a 1940 ALCO-built L-3a at the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, Indiana and is the largest surviving NYC steam locomotive. In October 2024, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society announced that they had acquired No. 3001 and made plans to eventually restore it to operating condition. [7] [8]
The line was built in 1892 by William Seward Webb, a Vanderbilt in-law, [2] as the Mohawk & Malone Railway and was purchased from him in 1893 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. [3] Its successor from 1913, the New York Central Railroad, ran passenger trains on the route until April 24, 1965.
Millers Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in the towns of Montague and Erving in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan statistical area.