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This, for them, meant laying imported British iron rails with a 4-foot-deep (1.2 m) wall of granite under each rail. They did this because it was commonly believed that the train would sink into the ground if the rails did not have strong support. [citation needed] The first track was completed in 1835, and freight service began immediately.
Appalachian Mountain Club headquartered in city. [81] Boston Merchants' Association [82] and MIT Woman's Laboratory established. 1877 April: A telephone line connects Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts. [83] Trinity Church built. Marcella-Street Home opens. [61] Women's Educational and Industrial Union and Footlight Club (theatre group) founded.
The West End Street Railway was renamed the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), and undertook several such projects. Boston's subway was the first in the United States and is often called "America's First Subway" by the MBTA and others. [8] In 1897 and 1898, the Tremont Street subway opened as the core of the precursor to the Green Line. [9]
A CSX train in Springfield, Massachusetts along the company's former Boston and Albany Railroad main line between Selkirk, New York and Boston. Railroads have played an important role in New England ever since the Granite Railway, America's first commercial railway, began operations in Massachusetts in 1826. As industrialization spread across ...
New York and Boston Railroad: Berkshire Railroad: NH: 1837 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Billerica and Bedford Railroad: B&M: 1876 1878 Boston and Lowell Railroad: Boston and Albany Railroad: B&A NYC: 1867 1961 New York Central Railroad: Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad: B&M: 1849 1885 Fitchburg Railroad: Boston, Clinton and ...
Some unused parts of the Eastern's right-of-way have been converted into rail trails, including the Eastern Trail in Maine, [1] the Clipper City Rail Trail in Newburyport, the Marblehead Rail Trail in Marblehead, and the Old Eastern Marsh Rail Trail in Salisbury, Massachusetts. In August 2019, New Hampshire purchased 9.6 miles (15.4 km) from ...
Map of the lines of the Cambridge (in red) and other horsecar companies operating in Boston in 1886. The Cambridge Railroad (also known as the Cambridge Horse Railroad) was the first street railway in the Boston, Massachusetts area, linking Harvard Square in Cambridge to Cambridge Street and Grove Street in Boston's West End, via Massachusetts Avenue, Main Street and the West Boston Bridge.
The portion of the abandoned right-of-way from Peabody to Newburyport is being converted to rail trails, which are part of the Border to Boston Trail. $122,000 in state funds for design of the Boxford section was awarded in 2022. A 4.4-mile (7.1 km) Wakefield-Lynnfield Rail Trail is also planned. [2]