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The Housatonic Railroad notified the Surface Transportation Board it was no longer opposing the abandonment in January 2023, and the MTA sought approval to convert the line into a rail trail. [19] The STB denied Metro-North's abandonment and trail conversion request in July 2023, citing procedural and legal issues with the filing. [ 20 ]
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
The latter segment was abandoned in 1982, but the Beacon–Hopewell Junction segment remained in use. [56] [57] Maybrook Properties, a subsidiary of the Housatonic Railroad, purchased the remaining Maybrook Line (Beacon–Hopewell Junction–Derby) from Conrail in 1992.
The Mount Beacon Incline Railway was a narrow gauge incline railway up Beacon Mountain near Beacon, New York. A popular local tourist attraction, it operated for much of the 20th century, providing sweeping views of the Hudson River Valley. Efforts to restore it have been discontinued.
Utica and Syracuse Air Line Railway (U&SAL) - in 1881 the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway (BHT&W) [160] consolidated a chain of railroads to try and create its own line to the Erie Railroad from Rotterdam Junction. [161] The company president was General William Lathrop Burt, [162] so the project was nicknamed the Burt Line. The ...
The city will sell the Mountain Division rail line for $2.2 million. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 ...
West Station is a planned station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line, to be located in the former Beacon Park Yard in Allston, Massachusetts. It was initially proposed as part of a project to straighten the Massachusetts Turnpike through the yard, allowing much of the land to be redeveloped. As of 2025, plans for the station ...
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.