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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.
[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 .
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.
On May 22, 2013, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the City of Cambridge announced their acquisition of major portions of the remaining abandoned right-of-way from the railroad for $1.3 million plus an additional, unspecified amount from Cambridge, allowing completion of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.
M. Manchester and Lawrence Railroad; Mansfield and Framingham Railroad; Martha's Vineyard Railroad; Massachusetts Central Railroad (1869–83) Medford branch (Boston and Maine Railroad)
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
Martha's Vineyard Railroad: 1874 1892 N/A Massachusetts Central Railroad: B&M: 1869 1883 Central Massachusetts Railroad: Medford Branch Railroad: B&M: 1845 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company: Medway Branch Railroad: NH: 1849 1864 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad: Middleborough Railroad: NH: 1845 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846)