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[9] [10] Throughout the 1980s, 90s, and into the 2000s, the line sat abandoned, with tracks at least partially intact until 2004. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Starting in 2017, portions of the rail line began being converted into the Upper Charles Rail Trail, which as of 2024 has been completed from Whitney Street in Sherborn south to Downtown Milford .
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Massachusetts. Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields. Other sites are unpopulated but still have standing buildings.
The line has been formally abandoned and portions have been converted into a rail trail, the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway. A section from School Street to Arlington Street in Watertown was completed first. A small portion in Waltham has been converted into a park called Chemistry Station Park after the railroad station once located there.
The Linden Street Bridge is an abandoned Central Massachusetts Railroad bridge over Linden Street (Massachusetts Route 60) in Waltham, Massachusetts. A restoration of the bridge is under construction as a part of the Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside (MCRT—Wayside) project. [ 2 ]
Abandoned work along Eddy Street in Providence. The railroad, conceived by GTR president Charles Melville Hays to break the near-monopoly of the New Haven Railroad in southern New England, was chartered in April 1910, and was to be built as a completely grade-separated air line, having low grades and long high bridges over valleys.
Martha's Vineyard Railroad; Massachusetts Central Railroad (1869–83) Medford branch (Boston and Maine Railroad) Medway Branch Railroad; Metropolitan Railroad (Boston) Middleborough Railroad; Middlesex and Boston Street Railway; Middlesex Central Railroad; Middlesex Railroad; Midland Railroad (Massachusetts) Midland Land Damage Company
Massachusetts State Rail Plan, 2010 Archived 2015-07-08 at the Wayback Machine - Contains maps, statistics, and proposed projects for railroads in Massachusetts v t
The B&M abandoned their 1895 extension, in 1936 and built a connection from its line on the west side of the river to the L&L line. The original route along the Concord River from Wigginsville to Downtown was abandoned in 1982. Today, this line is part of Pan Am Railways' main freight line through Massachusetts.