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The Milford Branch is an abandoned railroad line in Massachusetts.The line formerly ran from Milford to Framingham, traveling through Holliston and Sherborn, connecting to the Boston Subdivision in Framingham and the Milford Secondary in Milford.
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.
A ship that was stranded on High Pines, a section of Duxbury beach off the Gurnet. "In March 1792, the ship Columbia, of three hundred tons, of Portland, Capt. Isaac Chauncy, was stranded on the beach at the High Pines, and fourteen men lost, and two, the second mate and a boy, were saved." [8] Columbia United States: 26 November 1898
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.
C. Cambridge Railroad; Cape Cod Railroad; Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad; Cape Cod Central Railroad (1861–1868) Central Massachusetts Railroad; Central New England Railway
A research team in New Jersey has discovered the remains of a steamship that went missing in 1856 off the coast of Massachusetts Andrew Donn; Atlantic Wreck Salvage Research group discovers ...
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 ...
A French ship that sank following an 1856 collision while on its maiden voyage has been found off the Massachusetts coast, according to a report. For nearly 170 years, Le Lyonnais lay at the ...