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"Ole 4444," once the pride of the Boston & Maine Railroad, groaned and creaked unobtrusively this week onto a siding behind the Berkshire Coat Factory on Oak Street. The old car today is a mere shadow ...
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport is now available all year after the opening of a new exhibit. The museum's Maine Central Railroad model building holds a large-scale ...
The Troy & Greenbush was leased to the Hudson River Railroad in 1851 and the NY Central took it over in 1913. The Troy & Boston became part of the Boston & Maine in 1900.
The founder of the Conway Scenic Railroad, Dwight Smith Jr., recently turned 100 years old. Smith, now a resident of the New Hampshire Veterans Home, came up with the idea for the scenic railroad ...
FITZER and JOHN RAFFERTY were undoubtedly killed or drowned by the railroad drawbridge disaster at Charlestown yesterday morning. Their bodies were probably swept away by the current.
Boston eyes $8 billion rail plan that would benefit Maine A new 'Rail Link' between North and South stations would ease passenger rail between Maine and the rest of America ...
You may notice that some railroad crossings in Maine have medians on either side of the crossing. They may seem out of place, but there is a reason they are there.
SAUGUS — Before it ceased operating in 1958, the Saugus Branch Railroad provided easy transportation between Boston and the municipalities north of the city. The path of the Northern Strand ...
For over 80 years, there's been a train at the bottom of the Piscataqua River between Maine and New Hampshire.
From 1935 to 1955 the Flying Yankee, under a variety of names, racked up 3.5 million miles carrying passengers and freight throughout the Northeast for the Boston and Maine Railroad.
Boston and Maine Railroad 1127 (later to become Luzerne & Susquehanna Railway 600) is seen at Lincoln, N.H. in April 1963. Photo courtesy Danbury Railway Museum A last-minute campaign to save a ...