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Boston and Maine. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Fitchburg Railroad is a former railroad company, which built a railroad line across northern Massachusetts, United States, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel. The Fitchburg was leased to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900.
5011 rebuilt with a streamlined appearance and reclassified as Y-1a; 5010, 5012-5017 sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1956 W-1: B-D-D-B: 5018-5019: GE Erie Works: 28448, 28449: 1947: 2: 0: 1956: 5018 sold to the Union Pacific Railroad in 1960
The Boston and Maine Railroad (reporting mark BM) was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It was chartered in 1835, and became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983 (most of which was purchased by CSX in 2022). At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route-miles (2,438 km) on 2,481 miles (3,993 km) of track, not ...
The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod.
Union Pacific 844 is a class "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for its heritage fleet.Built in December 1944 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, No. 844 is one of four surviving FEF series locomotives and the only one in operation.
TITLE Fitchburg Locomotive, No.212, Keene New Hampshire CREATOR French, J.A., Keene NH SUBJECT Railroads - NH - Keene Railroad locomotives - NH - Keene Railroad stations - NH - Keene DESCRIPTION Photograph of the Fitchburg Locomotive, No.212, in Keene New Hampshire. PUBLISHER Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County
The Fitchburg Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system which runs from Boston 's North Station to Wachusett station in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The line is along the tracks of the former Fitchburg Railroad, which was built across northern Massachusetts, United States, in the 1840s. Winter weekend service includes a specially equipped ...
Wachusett station was located south of Princeton Road in the Crockerville section of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, about 0.3 miles (0.48 km) northeast of the modern station. [6] It opened by 1865. [10] A freight wreck at the station in July 1905 killed two men. [11] The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) acquired the Fitchburg Railroad in 1900. [5]