Billerica and Bedford Railroad information

The Billerica and Bedford Railroad was an early narrow gauge railroad in Massachusetts, built to demonstrate the advantages of a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railroad...

sources) with the Nashua, Acton & Boston Railroad and other rail lines. The independent Billerica and Bedford Railroad built a connecting narrow-gauge line...

the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad at Middlesex Junction was built in 1879. Billerica and Bedford The Billerica and Bedford Railroad was built in 1877...

(formerly known as the Billerica Repair Shops) is the name of the former repair facilities of the Boston and Maine Railroad in North Billerica, Massachusetts...

using rolling stock of the recently abandoned Billerica and Bedford Railroad. The original Billerica and Bedford equipment consisted of 2 locomotives, 6 flat...

locomotives built to the Forney cab-forward design for the Billerica and Bedford Railroad in 1877 by Hinkley Locomotive Works of Boston. The best known...

These railroads were owned by or closely related to the Boston and Albany Railroad, later part of the New York Central Railroad. These railroads were owned...

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from the nominal gauge, and the required interventions when non-compliant gauge is detected. For example, the Federal Railroad Administration in the US...

citizens of Billerica in eastern Massachusetts of the economies of a two-foot line, and became general manager of the Billerica and Bedford Railroad when it...

Boston and Lowell Railroad's main line and was the north terminal of the narrow gauge Billerica and Bedford Railroad (B&B). In 1998, the North Billerica Depot...

following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming) CSX...

Railroad opened an extension to Concord Center via Bedford. A Victorian-style passenger station was built in 1874. In 1877, the Billerica and Bedford...

31 – The first 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations. October 28 – Replacement Budapest-Nyugati...

Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Several Maine railroads used 2 ft (610 mm) gauge following demonstration on the Billerica and Bedford Railroad in 1877, including...

for the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, the Sandy River Railroad, the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad, the Monson Railroad, the Franklin and Megantic...

Railroad and later operated as part of the Boston & Maine Railroad's Southern Division, the line was one of the first railroads in North America and the...

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and a service between New Bedford and Cuttyhunk. As of 2018, a number of freight railroads were operating in Massachusetts, with Class I railroad CSX...

Massachusetts and Boston along the former right-of-way (ROW) of the Massachusetts Central Railroad. It currently has 59 miles (95 km) open, and 94.5 miles...

unlike New Bedford, which still owned a deep water port. In addition, the development of railroads made mainland whaling ports, such as New Bedford, more attractive...