Stations. The B&M's most traveled and well known passenger trains included the Alouette, Ambassador, Cheshire, Day White Mountains, East Wind, Green Mountain Flyer, Gull, Kennebec, Minute Man, Montrealer/Washingtonian, Mountaineer, Pine Tree, Red Wing, and State of Maine. The Boston & Maine first acquired control of the BC&M in 1887 but soon spun-off the railroad which went on to form the Concord & Montreal on July 24, 1889. A B&M rival, the Eastern Railroad, was also working on a route into Portland. the Library of Congress because of rights considerations, but you have access to larger size images on After a few months of additional work the bridge across the Connecticut River was completed and the route finished to White River Junction. No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. The postwar period proved especially problematic for the B&M. Title: Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH Other Title: Moose Brook Bridge National Covered Bridges Recording Project; Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator Related Names: Concord & Montreal Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Howe, William Guilford Transportation New . This was the beginning of the end of the Boston & Maine corporate image, and the start of major changes, such as new labor issues which caused the strikes of 1986 and 1987, and drastic cost-cutting such as the 1990 closure of B&M's Mechanicville, New York, site: the largest rail yard and shop facilities on the B&M system. Today's B&M is much different than the one of mid-century; what's left of its historic network is operated by Pan Am Ray Sabo photo. Boston and Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge -148.81, Howe Pony Truss, 1918, Title Sheet - Boston and Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge -148.81, Formerly spanning Moose HAER NH-48 (sheet 1 of 6).tif 14,400 9,600; 757 KB Today's B&M is much different than the one of mid-century; what's left of its historic network is operated by Pan Am Railways/CSX Transportation. Boston and Maine Railroad Central Massachusetts Branch Terminal and Fitchburg Divisions Rail service West Cambridge to Northampton As of April 27, 1941. (David Arthur) - Gasparini, Dario A. The old route was later abandoned. Survey number: HAER NH-49, - The largest of New England's railroads, the Boston & Maine is synonymous with the territory and for over 140 years served it Is the item digitized? If you are researching anything EMD related please visit this page first. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. This little system ran from a connection at Franklin to Bristol, New Hampshire. 1941. Its substantial growth occurred after the Civil War following the manufacturing base which sprang up across New England. They will immediately. available, often in the form of a digital image, a copy print, or microfilm. Ask A Librarian service or call the reading room between 8:30 and Dario Gasparini led the engineering studies at Case Western Reserve University. The Boston and Maine's origins go back to the earliest days of railroading in New England. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Most were through service that were shared between the B&M and other railroads, including the Canadian National Railroad (CN), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), Central Vermont Railway (CV), Maine Central Railroad (MEC), New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH), Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), Quebec Central Railway (QC), and Rutland Railroad (RUT). After the Great Depression hit the WN&P was looked upon as redundant. The connecting track was steep and was probably only used for passenger trains from Marlboro to Boston. Duplication Services Web site. Almost all inner-suburb commuter stations within the MTA transit district were closed. record ("About This Item") with your request. Boston & Maine RS3s #1517 and #1512 layover at the small engine terminal in Brownville Junction, Maine on July 6, 1970. Building/structure dates: 2010-2018 Subsequent Work, Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Boston and Maine Railroad Whitefield and Jefferson Branch White Mountains Division Rail service Whitefield Junction to Berlin As of January 1, 1914. New Hampshire--Coos County--Gorham. The B&M flourished with the growth of New England's mill towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but still faced financial struggles. It was shipped to Cleveland for extensive testing. Box 9116, Lowell, MA 01853 | info@bmrrhs.org, Lawrence Branch (Portland Div.) The railroad opened in 1840 to Exeter, New Hampshire, and on January 1, 1842, the two companies merged with the Boston and Portland to form a new Boston and Maine Railroad. The Library of Congress does notown rights to material in its collections. That company was merged into the main B&M on March 19, 1845, and opened on July 1, leading to the abandonment of the old connection to the B&L (later reused by the B&L for its Wildcat Branch). Town of Brooklin 23 Bay Road, Brooklin, Maine 04616 207-359-8394. As you can see, many of these services were operated in tandem with other carriers. An Electro-Motive builder's photo featuring freshly-outshopped Boston & Maine GP9 #1701 in early 1957. This was primarily the main line from Boston west via the Hoosac Tunnel to the Albany, New York, area, with various branches. Boston & Maine GP38-2 #200 is seen here dressed in its Bicentennial livery at Mechanicville, New York on April 17, 1975. Ridership sharply increased during World War II; the B&M had a slower postwar decline than its contemporaries, though major frequency reductions occurred in 19491950. Photograph. During the B&M's peak years, before the Great Depression, it moved a substantial variety of freight from dedicated milk trains and furniture to coal and textiles. (Some images display only as thumbnails outside The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. Trains originating in New York City or Washington, D.C., ran through Springfield (using the Connecticut River Line) or Worcester (using the Worcester Branch) and bypassed Boston. 119Save. After steady growth from 1901 to 1913, passenger rail ridership around Boston peaked in 1920 and began to decline due to competition from private automobiles and service cuts during World War I. The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts. Hampshire for the run up to the paper mills in Groveton and Berlin. Photograph. - Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as (1968) Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his, If you are researching anything EMD related please visit, If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the, "Day Out With Thomas" Train Rides In New York (2023), "Day Out With Thomas" Train Rides: A Complete Guide (2023), "ACE 3000" Steam Locomotive: Prototype, History, Horsepower. Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. Duplication Services Web site. and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). Boston & Maine E7A #3805 leads a Greenfield-Springfield train southbound through Chicopee, Massachusetts on May 20, 1956. A decision on whether to run the bus connection or not will be made based on the number of seats reserved through July 31. Significance: In 1891-93, the Concord & Montreal Railroad built a 30-mile, single-track branch line from its main line at Whitefield, NH to Berlin, where lumber and paper industries were booming. Ask A Librarian service or call the reading room between 8:30 and THIS PAGE IS CURRENTLY A WORK IN PROGRESS. On verso: Ac. According to Bruce Healds book, "A History Of The Boston & Maine Railroad," on July 24, 1889 the New Hampshire General Court gave Boston & Maine permission to formally lease the Northern. Do the Access Advisory or Call Number fields above indicate that a non-digital surrogate exists, M. R., New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad, Howe, W. [] Marston, C. H. (1968) Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #143.06, Spanning Snyder Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad now Presidential Range Rail Trail, just south of U.S. Route 2, Randolph, Coos County, NH. The route prospered until the postwar period; the last passenger train ran on January 3, 1965. Learn more about this event here. Please use the following steps to determine whether you need to fill out a call slip in the Prints Additionally, the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad, owned by the B&M through stock, was leased to the Maine Central Railroad by 1912. In some cases, a surrogate (substitute image) is It had passenger service from 1847 to 1957, with freight service on the inner part of the line until 2010. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/nh0298/. [7]:15, After the major cuts by the B&M and the New Haven Railroad in the late 1950s, public opinion in Massachusetts began to favor supporting Boston commuter service to prevent it from being cut entirely. On March 12, 1977, the B&M also won the contract for the southside commuter rail lines that had once been part of the New Haven and B&A: the first time that Boston's commuter rail system had been operated by a single entity. Dated: 1980. Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. advise you in both how to fill out a call slip and when the item can be served. Thanks to McClelland Farm Road overpass at the western end of the yard, this was a famous spot on the B&M for photographs. It was founded as a feeder for the third incarnation of Pan American Airways and also flew leased BAe Jetstream 31 aircraft for Caesar's of Atlantic City, New Jersey.It was wholly owned by Pan Am Systems (formerly known as Guilford Transportation Industries), which owns the Pan Am brand. The B&M's decline began like most of its neighbors, during the immediate post-World War II period as a shrinking traffic base and saturation of rail lines meant only the strongest would survive. Under the direction of new president Alan G. Dustin the railroad was rescued from the brink through aggressive management, marketing, and sound railroading. Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #143.06, Spanning Snyder Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad (now Presidential Range Rail Trail), just south of U.S. Route 2, Randolph, Coos County, NH, Historic American Engineering Record, creator, Federal Highway Administration, National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program, sponsor, - There is an agreement between HAER, National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, and Case Western Reserve University to test and reconstruct the bridge. Value-$220,000.00" The parcel includes the abutments that span the old trolley line on the north side of the Stony Brook. advise you in both how to fill out a call slip and when the item can be served. It survived intact until the Guilford era when 59 miles was abandoned betweenBoscawen and Lebanon in 1991. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. At this time the first reductions took place. In a rare case of cooperation the two jointly agreed to lease the PS&P. The Maynard Branch, Saugus Branch, Essex Branch, and Stoneham Branch were cut, and the Central Mass Branch was cut from Clinton to Hudson. His leadership has also been questioned by historians as hundreds of miles of the B&M's network was abandoned during the 1980s and 1990s, many of which were still considered viable routes. Survey number: HAER NH-48, - It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. At one point, the B&M also owned a majority of stock of the Maine Central Railroad, stretching from Quebec via northern New Hampshire to southern and eastern Maine. Shipping list no. Source: Boston and Maine Railroad. covered bridges, - If you do not see a thumbnail image or a reference to another surrogate, please fill out a call slip in The Howe truss was favored by railroads for its rigidity and simple framing connections, and was used extensively on railroad lines in the United States and Europe in the nineteenth century. In the foreground is Boston & Maine 4-6-2 #3712 (P-4) while in the background can be seen 4-4-2 #3234 (J-1e). Woodsville to Wing Road, NH. The floor system is composed of paired 10" x 16" transverse floor beams that hang below the (However, Haverhill service was restored by MVRTA subsidy in 1979. transportation, - Here you can find a complete schedule regarding where Thomas The Train/Day Out With Thomas train rides will be operating for the 2022 season. a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate. Nearly two years later it merged with theMaine, New Hampshire & Massachusetts and Boston & Portland on January 1, 1842 while retaining the Boston & Maine name. The Triplex locomotive was a unique design intended to offer maximum tractive effort in slow, drag service. Nashua Street Railway Bay State Street Railway Manchester & Nashua Street Railway Operated by Concord Coach Lines, Amtrak and Greater Portland Metro Bus, the Boston to Maine bus service departs from Boston South Buses and arrives in Congress St + Center St. Its first segment opened between Concord and Tilton, New Hampshire on May 22, 1848 and continued snaking northward until reaching Plymouth on June 21, 1850 (viaLaconia and Meredith). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1253, - pony trusses, - Fitchburg Route service was cut to West Concord; New Hampshire Route and Western Route service to Wilmington, save for the Concord and Dover trip; Eastern Route service to Manchester and Wenham except for the Newburyport trip; and Central Mass service to South Sudbury. [12] After out-of-district communities agreed to subsidies, service was re-extended to Ayer, Lowell, Ipswich, and Rockport on June 28. Boston & Maine 4-6-2 #3692 arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with an outbound, Boston - Marblehead commuter run on February 2, 1956. Other materials require appointments for later the same day or in the future. ), 1962 - Bedford & Billerica: Bedford - Billerica Center. Boston & Maine RS3 #1536 has a work train in the yard at Mechanicville, New York on May 17, 1975. According to the Boston & Maine Historical Society its peak workforce included roughly 28,000 individuals. The N&R was leased by the W&N in 1874, and the two, along with the Portland & Rochester, merged to form the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester in 1883. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. Building/structure dates: 2004 Demolished, - The original B&M line became its "Inside Gateway" to Boston operating via Dover, Haverhill, and Lawrence while the Eastern skirted the Atlantic coastline via Portsmouth, Newburyport, and Salem. In total, the Northern Railroad stretched nearly 70 miles. [7]:68 A second round of discontinuances occurred from 1931 to 1936 as the Great Depression reduced traffic. This system offered rail service from North Berwick into Portland, a city the B&M was attempting to serve. Originally chartered in 1835, it became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983 (most of which was purchased by CSX in 2022). Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through Boston & Maine owned the property (and also employed its own railroad police), while Springfield Terminal Railway, a B&M subsidiary created by owner Timothy Mellon to break the unions' higher wage scales,[citation needed] operated the trains and performed maintenance. "This study is conducted under a joint agreement between the Federal Highway Administration-Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center, and the National Park Service-Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)." By the early 1980s the B&M had erased its deficits, an incredible feat considering the state of the industry in this region at the time. In 2022 Pan Am was formally acquired by CSX Transportation. The region's short-haul freight business meant that area railroads were especially susceptible to highways. - At our age, members of the Class of '48 have an abundance of free timeand Joyce Van Denburgh Doty, MFA '50, made excellent use of it with a detailed response to the Share Your News form.. Perhaps invigorated by the oxygen she uses (though she never smoked, she presumes she inhaled others'), she goes beyond her own TV watching of both old black-and-white shows and modern news to . [5] This provided a second route to Maine, ending competition along the immediate route between Boston and Portland. This explosion of new industry fueled the construction of numerous railroads, several of which the B&M would later control. Up until CSX Transportation acquired Pan Am Railways on June 1, 2022, Boston & Maine Corporation continued to exist, but only as a non-operating ward of PAR. Christianson, J., trans Documentation Compiled After. Bergeron Engineers - Graton, Arnold M - Granger, Sanford - Bennett, Lola - Arnold M. Graton Associates Inc - Wright, David - Graton, Arnold, Jr, Photo(s): 11 | Color Transparencies: 4 | Data Page(s): 8 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2, Bennett, Lola - Federal Highway Administration - Marston, Christopher H - Troemner, Florence - Howe, William - Croteau, Todd a - Troemner, Clara - Christianson, Justine - Stover, Ralph - Historic American Engineering Record, Photo(s): 13 | Measured Drawing(s): 9 | Data Page(s): 11 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2. Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH Contributor Names Historic American Engineering Record, creator Concord & Montreal Railroad Boston & Maine Railroad Howe, William Guilford Transportation New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad The Boston & Maine's immediate corporate history began onJune 27, 1835 with its formal chartering in New Hampshire with intentions of linking its namesake city with Portland, Maine. A new alignment to Portland opened in 1873, splitting from the old route at South Berwick, Maine. [17] These tables list major named intercity trains operated by the B&M. 1/6 Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Howe Pony Truss, 1918, Title Sheet - . Significance: Snyder Brook Bridge is one of eight boxed pony truss bridges remaining in North America. [8]:86,126 ConcordClaremont Junction service ended in 1955, and the Boston section of the Ambassador was reduced to a BostonWhite River Junction RDC connecting train in 1956. such as microfilm or copy prints? He was a poor railroader and both companies suffered as a result. - Sangree, Rachel Herring - Harrison, Michael R. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress), Federal Highway Administration, National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program, National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation (Department of Resources and Economic Development), Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS) Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information. It opened partially in 1851 and 1853, was reorganized as the Portland and Rochester Railroad in 1867, and opened the rest of the way in 1871. Reformatory Branch: Bedford, Mass. American-Rails.com collection. The B&M acquired the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1887, but gave it up in 1889, allowing it to merge with the Concord Railroad to form the Concord and Montreal Railroad. A later subsidiary of the B&L, acquired in 1884, it operated from Concord to White River Junction, Vermont. At its peak B&M maintained over 2,300 route miles of track, 1,200 steam locomotives, and a force of 28,000 employees. Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #143.06, Spanning Snyder Brook at former Boston & Maine Hall Bridge, Spanning Saxtons River at Paradise Hill Road, Rockingham, Windham County, VT. Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as to Reformatory, Mass. The Library of Congress does notown rights to material in its collections. Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. Along with this railroad came the Ashuelot Railroad, which had been acquired in 1877. : 2016-0123-P. Includes bibliographical Simmons, David A. Re: Boston & Maine's - Marlborough Branch. Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #143.06, Spanning Snyder Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad now Presidential Range Rail Trail, just south of U.S. Route 2, Randolph, Coos County, NH. Some Beeliners operated the entire distance between Boston and Albany; others covered schedules between Boston and Worcester or Springfield, Mass. Mean's Ford Bridge, Spanning Tohickon Creek at Stump Road, Ralph Stover State Park, Point Pleasant, Bucks Whittier Bridge, Spanning the Bearcamp River, West Ossipee, Carroll County, NH, Strength of Burr-Arch Trusses, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH, Covered bridges and the birth of American engineering. The Boston and Maine Railroad (reporting mark BM) was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. During the company's height it maintained more than 2,000 miles, snaking northward and westward away from its home city of Boston. On April 1, 1887, the B&M leased the Boston and Lowell Railroad, adding not only trackage in the Boston area, but also the Central Massachusetts Railroad west to Northampton, the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad into northern New Hampshire, the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad to northwestern Vermont, and the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad from White River Junction into Quebec. Perhaps most interesting is that the original company was quite small and much of its future expansion was the result of acquisition, which sometimes resulted in duplicate routes serving the same regions. Sir William regrets the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Berlin, Coos County, New Hampshire. It was again reorganized in 1881 and then operated in conjunction with the line to Worcester. [Photo Captions from Survey HAER NH-48 ]. The B&M was purchased by Timothy Mellon, founder of Guilford Transportation Industries, on June 30, 1983 for a price of $24 million. For much of the 1970s, the Boston and Maine limped along. [8]:44 The northern section of the BostonWells River, Vermont route ended in 1954 (thus ending connections to Quebec City), as did ManchesterPortsmouth service. Boston - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Portland, Maine, Springfield, Massachusetts - Berlin, New Hampshire, Worcester - Lowell Junction, Massachusetts, South Ashburnham, Massachusetts - Bellows Falls, Vermont. In 1983, the B&M emerged from bankruptcy when it was purchased by Timothy Mellon's Guilford Transportation Industries for $24million. transportation, - - Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through After the depression it rebounded during the hectic World War II period but then again declined after this time. Photo(s): 4 | Data Page(s): 12 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1, Federal Highway Administration, National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program - Boston & Maine Railroad - Marston, Christopher H - New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad - Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad - Howe, William - New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation (Department of Resources and Economic Development) - Concord & Montreal Railroad - Christianson, Justine - Snow, Jonathan Parker - Historic American Engineering Record, Photo(s): 12 | Measured Drawing(s): 6 | Data Page(s): 25 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1.
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