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In 2014, the museum received a $200,000 state grant to move its excursion train operations to the Hoosac Valley, operating between Adams and North Adams. The Town of Adams spent $500,000 renovating a former car wash into a railroad station. [3]
The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.
The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad (HTW) was an interstate shortline railroad running north–south between southwestern Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts. It ran from Wilmington, Vermont to Rowe, Massachusetts , a distance of approximately 25 miles (40 km).
The Troy and Greenfield Railroad was chartered in 1848 to develop a rail line that would connect Troy, New York, to Greenfield, Massachusetts, via North Adams and a tunnel through Hoosac Mountain. Work on the Hoosac Tunnel began in the 1850s, but would not be completed until the 1870s; its construction alone provided an employment boom to North ...
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad: HTW 1888 1971 N/A Lamoille County Railroad: 1973 1974 St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad: Lamoille Valley Railroad: LVRC 1977 2004 N/A Lamoille Valley Railroad: B&M: 1867 1880 St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad: Lamoille Valley Extension Railroad: CN: 1872 1887 Central Vermont Railroad ...
The scenic train ride ends in the classic New England fall getaway spot of Burlington, a charming pedestrian-friendly city on the shores of Lake Champlain. FALL FUN: 10 best family vacation ideas ...
The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was a railway company that operated in the states of New York and Vermont in the 1880s. At its peak it controlled a 61-mile (98 km) network centered on Mechanicville, New York.
The line was extended westward, eventually reaching North Adams in 1848 and continuing through the Hoosac Tunnel to connect with Troy, New York, in 1875. The construction of the Hoosac Tunnel was critical in establishing the Fitchburg Railroad as a key transportation route through the Berkshire Mountains. The tunnel, which took nearly 25 years ...