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The Monadnock became part of the Fitchburg, along with the entire Cheshire, in 1890 and then to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900. As a line of the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M), the Monadnock served as part of a long through route between Worcester, Massachusetts , and Concord under the name of the Worcester and Hillsboro (sometimes ...
The New England National Scenic Trail (NET) is a National Scenic Trail in southern New England, which includes most of the three single trails Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail. After the Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett trail system, the trail is sometimes called the Triple-M Trail. [1] The 215-mile (346 km) route ...
Grand Trunk Railway: GT CN: 1853 1923 Canadian National Railway: Great Falls and Conway Railroad: B&M: 1844 1865 Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway Railroad: Groton and Nashua Railroad: B&M: 1844 1846 Worcester and Nashua Railroad: Lake Shore Railroad: B&M: 1883 1901 Concord and Montreal Railroad: Maine Central Railroad: MEC MEC 1888 2003 New ...
The Squannacook River Rail Trail is a 3.7-mile (6.0 km) rail trail between Townsend and the Bertoxxi Wildlife Management Area. The trail opened in 2020 after the completion of tree clearing, though rails and ties were still in place. In July 2020, the state awarded $100,000 for removing tracks and paving the western third of the trail. [31]
The Milford-Bennington Railroad, founded in 1987, is a shortline railroad in New Hampshire, United States. [1] The company primarily hauls gravel, sand, and aggregates. [ 2 ] The railroad operates 18.6 miles (29.9 km) of track owned by the State of New Hampshire between Bennington and Wilton , and has trackage rights over 5.4 miles (8.7 km) of ...
By 1964, part of his collection — 25 steam locomotives from the United States and Canada, 10 other locomotives, and 25 pieces of rolling stock — was housed at North Walpole, New Hampshire. [41] The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad, as the enterprise was then called, [42] ran excursions between Keene and Westmoreland, New Hampshire. [41]
The Monadnock Region is a region in southwestern New Hampshire. It is named after Mount Monadnock , a 3,165 foot isolated mountain, which is the dominant geographic landmark in the region. Although it has no specific borders, the Monadnock Region is generally thought of comprising all of Cheshire County and the western portion of Hillsborough ...
In the 1860s and 1870s, the Northern was under the control of Onslow Stearns, who served as president of the railroad from 1852 until his death in 1878. [22] The Northern thrived under his leadership, and the yearly gross income of the road rose from nearly $364,000 in 1861 to $500,000 in 1881, while passenger-miles increased from 3.6m to 5.9m and revenue freight increased from 12.6m to 29.4m ...