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The railroad opened in 1840 to Exeter, New Hampshire, and on January 1, 1842, the two companies merged with the Boston and Portland to form a new Boston and Maine Railroad. Woodburytype of 0-4-0 Achilles , Baldwin Locomotive Works , 1871 1898 map Locomotive emerging from Salem station on the Eastern line, c. 1910 } Boston and Maine depot in ...
The Lewiston service via the Maine Central was discontinued in the mid-1950s. The Boston & Maine ended its service between Boston and Portland in 1965 and, in 1967, the Grand Trunk Railway discontinued its once-weekly, summer-only Sunday service to and from Montreal, ending the last scheduled passenger service to Portland and Lewiston.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
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)
Maine Central Railroad: MEC MEC 1862 Still exists as a lessor of Pan Am Railways operating subsidiary Springfield Terminal Railway: Maine Coast Railroad: MC 1990 2000 Safe Handling Rail, Inc. Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1836 1844 Boston and Maine Railroad: Maine Shore Line Railroad: MEC: 1881 1888 Maine Central ...
Pages in category "Boston and Maine Railroad" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. ... Railroad history of Portland, Maine; S.
This category contains railroad companies that became part of the Boston and Maine Railroad system, usually through consolidation. Pages in category "Predecessors of the Boston and Maine Railroad" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Boston and Maine Railroad" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .