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The Ashuwillticook Rail Trail is a 14.05-mile (22.61 km) rail trail that runs north-south through the towns of Cheshire, Lanesborough and Adams, and into the city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It is a multi-use trail for biking, walking, roller-blading, and jogging.
Ashuwillticook Rail Trail (12 miles in North Berkshires) Assabet River Rail Trail southwest end (5.8 miles, Hudson to Marlboro) completed, & northeast end 3.4 miles (from South Acton station (MBTA) through Maynard to Stow) Bay Circuit Trail (Long distance hiking circuit in Massachusetts with rail trail segments) Bay Colony Rail Trail [4 ...
[26] [27] Amtrak train service on the Lake Shore Limited is available 15 miles to the south at Pittsfield's Scelsi ITC. Freight rail once ran through the town, but is now mostly converted to the paved Ashuwillticook Rail Trail. The town lies along the northern route of the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority.
The Ashuwillticook Rail Trail, formerly part of the Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad. The Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad was incorporated in 1842 and opened in 1846, having been already leased to the Western Railroad. It ran from North Adams Junction in Pittsfield to North Adams, where it connected to the Troy and Greenfield Railroad.
Most of the line was converted into the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail / ˌ æ ʃ uː ˈ w ɪ l t ɪ k ʊ k /, an 11-mile (18 km)-long, 10-foot-wide (3.0 m), universally accessible, paved path connecting the Berkshire towns of Lanesborough, Cheshire, and Adams. The trail runs parallel to Route 8 and passes through woods and marshlands, and alongside ...
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The Troy and Greenfield Railroad was chartered in 1848 to develop a rail line that would connect Troy, New York, to Greenfield, Massachusetts, via North Adams and a tunnel through Hoosac Mountain. Work on the Hoosac Tunnel began in the 1850s, but would not be completed until the 1870s; its construction alone provided an employment boom to North ...