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Amherst is a former intercity rail station located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The station was built by the Amherst and Belchertown Railroad in 1853; it was served by the Central Vermont Railway until 1947. Amtrak service began in 1989 with the Montrealer; it was replaced by the Vermonter in 1995.
The Amherst Railway Society is a society of railway enthusiasts located in Palmer, Massachusetts which is also the home of seven railroads. The society puts on an annual Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in late January of every year.
The Railroad Hobby Show is a fund-raiser for the nonprofit Amherst Railway Society. Since 1991, the society has donated more than $800,000 raised through the show to various railroad museums, historical societies, nonprofit groups and organizations dedicated to preserving railroad history and restoring railroad equipment and structures, as well ...
Agricultural Branch Railroad: NH: 1847 1867 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad: Albany Street Freight Railway: 1868 N/A Amherst and Belchertown Railroad: CN: 1851 1858 Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad: Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad: CN: 1858 1861 New London Northern Railroad: Andover and Haverhill Railroad: B&M: 1837 1839
An Amherst & Sunderland car passes through The Notch of the Holyoke Range, 1903. The Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway was an interurban streetcar system that operated in Amherst, Sunderland, Pelham, Granby, and South Hadley, Massachusetts. From 1897 until 1932, trolleys operated between Sunderland, the Massachusetts Agricultural College ...
The Central Massachusetts Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. The eastern terminus of the line was at North Cambridge Junction where it split off from the Middlesex Central Branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and through which it had access to North Station in Boston .
The Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail, full name the Norwottuck Branch of the Mass Central Rail Trail, [2] formerly the Norwottuck Rail Trail, is an 11-mile (18 km) combination bicycle/pedestrian paved rail trail running from Northampton, Massachusetts, through Hadley and Amherst, to Belchertown, Massachusetts.
The New London, Willimantic, and Palmer Railroad opened from New London, Connecticut, to Palmer, Massachusetts, in September 1850.It was extended to Amherst in May 1853 by the NLW&P-leased Amherst and Belchertown Railroad, which failed and was reorganized as the Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer in 1858.