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New England Motor Freight, Inc. (NEMF) was a unionized less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight carrier, based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. It was one of the largest LTL carriers in the US Northeast when it entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019 and subsequently shut down all operations in 2020.
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Freight traffic was abruptly halted in 1992 when Conrail rerouted New England freight trains to Springfield, Massachusetts, via the Boston Line, and then south to New Haven, Connecticut. Infrequent freight service continued for a short while but, as of 1995, there was no freight service on the line. [6] The refurbished Poughkeepsie Bridge ...
In December 2003 Yellow Corporation, at the time the second largest LTL carrier in the US, acquired the largest, Roadway Corporation, for US$1.05 billion. [13] [14] Roadway had been spun off from its former parent, holding company Roadway Services Inc. (RSI), in 1995 and operated as an independent, publicly traded company since then.
The New England Southern made its inaugural freight run to Manchester on July 14, 1985, using leased Maine Central EMD GP7 581, on loan from Guilford (which had purchased the Maine Central in 1981 and the B&M in 1983). [1] New England Southern Railroad #503 heads north through Weirs Beach in 1987 with freight bound for Rochester Shoe Tree in ...
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The final New England state without a railroad, Vermont, gained its first when the Vermont Central Railroad was chartered in 1843. [12] In the year 1850, no less than half of the railroad mileage in the United States was within New England. [13] Entering the second half of the 19th century, many smaller companies merged or were absorbed by others.
The Western Railroad opened for freight and passenger service in 1841, connecting West Springfield to Worcester, Boston, the Berkshires, and upstate New York. It would become the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Travel time from Boston to Albany was considerably reduced from the over 40 hours it took by stagecoach in the 1820s. [38]