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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.
see also Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad and Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad, which built lines and later abandoned them Cape Ann Granite Railroad: Pigeon Cove Harbor: Cape Ann Granite Company quarries: Grafton and Upton Railroad: North Grafton: Milford: Upton Loop, West Upton to Upton: Hampden Railroad ...
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.
The Assabet River Rail Trail (ARRT) is a partially-completed multi-use rail trail running through the cities and towns of Marlborough, Hudson, Stow, Maynard, and Acton, Massachusetts, United States. It is a conversion of the abandoned Marlborough Branch of the Fitchburg Railroad. The right-of-way parallels the Assabet River in the trail's ...
Twin Cities Rail Trail [23] (Fitchburg to Leominster) Upper Charles Rail Trail [24] a.k.a. Holliston Rail Trail [25] a.k.a. Milford Rail Trail [26] (Milford Branch) Ware River Rail Trail [27] Watertown-Cambridge Greenway; Wellington Greenway [citation needed] Whitney Spur Rail Trail [citation needed] World War II Veterans Memorial Trail [28]
Methuen Rail Trail. The Methuen Rail Trail is a rail trail in Methuen and Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the United States.It is 2.4 miles (3.9 km) long, measuring from Manchester Street in Lawrence to the New Hampshire state border. [1]
When work resumed under the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1886, a route to the south of the original one between Holden and Belcherstown was taken and substantial work on the 1883 line through Hardwick, Greenwich, and Enfield was abandoned. Missouri. Memphis and Kansas City Railroad - this predecessor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway ...
[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 .