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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 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.
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 ...
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.
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]
M. Manchester and Lawrence Railroad; Mansfield and Framingham Railroad; Martha's Vineyard Railroad; Massachusetts Central Railroad (1869–83) Medford branch (Boston and Maine Railroad)
In the late 1860s citizens in the towns of Sudbury, Wayland, and Weston petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts to build a railroad through their towns. On February 21, 1868 the state chartered the Wayland and Sudbury Branch Railroad to run 6.75 miles from Mill Village in Sudbury through Wayland to a connection with the Fitchburg Railroad at Stony Brook in Weston.
Took over the abandoned Pithole Valley Railroad, and graded from Enterprise to Pithole. Laid track between Titusville and Tannery, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) [210] Tuscarora Railroad - in 1898 this subsidiary of the Tuscarora Valley Railroad did substantial grading on an extension from Blairs Mills to McConnellsburg.