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The Boston and Lowell Railroad was a railroad that operated in Massachusetts in the United States. It was one of the first railroads in North America and the first major one in the state. The line later operated as part of the Boston and Maine Railroad's Southern Division. Late 19th century map of the Boston & Lowell Railroad (drawn in red)
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]
Shortly after the steam locomotive became practical for mass transportation, [6] the private Boston and Lowell Railroad was chartered in 1830. [7] The rail, which opened in 1835, [6] connected Boston to Lowell, [8] a major northerly mill town in northeast Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley, [9] via one of the oldest railroads in North America.
This map shows Eastern's tracks from Lynn into East Boston, as well as the Grand Junction tracks from East Boston to downtown Boston and the Chelsea cut-off between the two routes. 1849 railroad map, with Eastern Railroad main line highlighted in yellow. The Eastern Railroad Company of Massachusetts was first chartered on April 14, 1836.
Massachusetts State Rail Plan, 2010 Archived 2015-07-08 at the Wayback Machine - Contains maps, statistics, and proposed projects for railroads in Massachusetts v t
February 6: Delegates ratify U.S. Constitution; [25] Boston becomes part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. February 8: Parade in honor of ratification of U.S. Constitution. [25] 1789 William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy published. Boston Directory and Massachusetts Magazine begin publication. 1790 Memorial column erected atop Beacon Hill.
January 17 – Riverview station, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the Boston & Maine Railroad closes. The bold lines show what were thought in 1965 to be British Rail's only future trunk routes; many of the assumptions did not come to pass.
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.