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1837 Western Railroad map. The Boston and Worcester Railroad was chartered June 23, 1831, and construction began in August 1832. The line opened in sections: to West Newton on April 16, 1834; to Wellesley on July 3; to Ashland on September 20; to Westborough in November 1834; and the full length to Worcester on July 4, 1835. [17]
Massachusetts Central Railroad: Weir Branch Railroad: NH: 1847 1848 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad: West Amesbury Branch Railroad: B&M: 1868 1893 Boston and Maine Railroad: West Stockbridge Railroad: NH: 1836 1905 Berkshire Railroad: Western Railroad: NYC: 1833 1867 Boston and Albany Railroad: Winchendon Railroad: B&M: 1845 1846 Cheshire ...
Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad: Athol Junction: Athol: Ware River Railroad: Palmer: Winchendon: Massachusetts Central Railroad today, operating between Palmer and South Barre: Western Railroad: Worcester: New York state line in West Stockbridge
"Whistler's Railroad: The Western Railroad of Massachusetts". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. 69 (69): 1– 2, 8– 100. JSTOR 43504556. Groves, R.L. "The Boston & Albany Webpage". Archived from the original on 2004-09-12. Guild, William (1847). A Chart and Description of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads ...
Western Railroad (Massachusetts), 1833-1867, predecessor of the Boston and Albany Railroad Western Railroad of Minnesota Western Railroad (North Carolina) , 1852-1879, predecessor of the Southern Railway
It encompasses a section of the historic Western Railroad railbed, two stone bridges constructed in the 1840s under the direction of George Washington Whistler, and the c. 1862 railroad depot in the village of Chester Factory, which served the railroad as an important logistics point for the difficult crossing of The Berkshires to the west.
The 38-mile (61 km) line between Mechanicville and the Vermont/Massachusetts state line opened on December 22, 1879. [5] Between Valley Falls, New York, and the Massachusetts state line the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway ran parallel with the Troy and Boston Railroad; both lines following the Hoosic River. [3]
The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was organized in 1877 to build from near the Massachusetts–Vermont border, where state ownership ended, parallel to the Troy and Boston Railroad to near Johnsonville, New York and then west via Schenectady to Rotterdam Junction on what became the New York, West Shore, and Buffalo Railway in 1883.