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Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont)
The Springfield Electric Railway, affectionately referred to as the Toonerville Trolley, was an electric trolley system that operated in the town of Springfield, Vermont. The railway, which later became the Springfield Terminal Railway, was initially funded by the town in 1896 with the aim of establishing connections to the railroads passing through Charlestown, New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River. Eventually, the Boston and Maine Railroad gained control of the railway. While the trolley service ceased operations in 1947, making it the longest-running trolley in the state at that time, freight usage of the tracks ended in 1984. The Springfield Terminal name continues to exist as a subsidiary of Pan Am Railways which is now owned by CSX. The river's falls in downtown Springfield played a significant role in the area's mill boom during the 19th century and attracted businesses to relocate. Notably, the Jones & Lamson Machine Co. emerged from this era and gained worldwide r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Charlestown Station 1913 Postcard
Charlestown or Charles Town may refer to: Places Australia *Charlestown, New South Wales ** Electoral district of Charlestown, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly including the area * Charlestown, Queensland Ireland *Charlestown, County Mayo ** Charlestown Shopping Centre, Dublin South Africa * Charlestown, KwaZulu-Natal United Kingdom England *Charlestown, Cornwall * Charlestown, Derbyshire * Charlestown, Dorset *Charlestown, Manchester, Greater Manchester * Charlestown, Salford, Greater Manchester, a location * Charlestown, Bradford, West Yorkshire, a location * Charlestown, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, a location Northern Ireland * Bannfoot, County Armagh (also known as Charlestown) Scotland * Charlestown, Aberdeen, a location * Charlestown, Aberdeenshire, a location *Charlestown, Fife (also known as Charlestown-on-Forth) * Charlestown, Black Isle, in the Highland council area * Charlestown, Wester Ross, part of Gairloch, in the Highlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Springfield, Vermont
Springfield is a New England town, town in Windsor County, Vermont, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 9,062. History The land currently recognized as Springfield is the traditional land of the Pennacook and Abenaki people. One of the New Hampshire grants, the township was chartered on August 20, 1761, by Governor Benning Wentworth and awarded to Gideon Lyman and 61 others. Although Springfield's alluvial flats made it among the best agriculture, agricultural towns in the state, the Black River (Connecticut River), Black River waterfall, falls, which drop in , helped it develop into a mill town. Springfield was located in the center of the Precision Valley region, home of the Vermont machine tool industry. In 1888, the Jones and Lamson Machine Tool Company (J&L) moved to Springfield from Windsor, Vermont, Windsor, Vermont under the successful leadership of James Hartness. Gaining international renow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Charlestown, New Hampshire
Charlestown is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,806 at the 2020 census, down from 5,114 at the 2010 census. The town is home to Hubbard State Forest and the headquarters of the Student Conservation Association. The primary village in town, where 1,078 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Charlestown census-designated place (CDP) and is located along New Hampshire Route 12. The town also includes the villages of North Charlestown, South Charlestown and Hemlock Center. History The area was first granted on December 31, 1735,Article i''Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire'' (1875)/ref> by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts as "Plantation No. 4", the fourth in a line of townships on the Connecticut River. Settled in 1740, it was the northernmost township, and its 1744 stockade now known as Fort at Number 4 became a strategic military site. On the evening of May 2, 1746, Seth Putnam joined Major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges into Long Island Sound between Old Saybrook, Connecticut, Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, Connecticut. Its watershed encompasses , covering parts of five U.S. states and one Canadian province, via 148 tributaries, 38 of which are major rivers. It produces 70% of Long Island Sound's fresh water, discharging at per second. The Connecticut River Valley is home to some of the northeastern United States' most productive farmland, as well as the Hartford–Springfield, Hartford–Springfield Knowledge Corridor, a metropolitan region of approximately two million people surrounding Springfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. History The word "Connecticut" is a Corruption (linguistics), corruption of the Mohegan word ''quinetucket'' and Nipmuc word ''kw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boston And Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine Railroad was a United States, U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It was chartered in 1835, and became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983 (most of which was purchased by CSX in 2022). At the end of 1970, B&M operated on of track, not including Springfield Terminal Railway (ST), Springfield Terminal. That year it reported 2,744 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 92 million passenger-miles. History The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts. The line opened to Andover on August 8, 1836. The name was changed to the Andover and Haverhill Railroad on April 18, 1837, reflecting plans to build further to Haverhill, Massachusetts (opened later that year), and yet further to Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine, with renaming to the Boston and Portland Railroad on April 3, 1839, opening to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pan Am Railways
Pan Am Railways, Inc. (PAR) is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation that operates Class II regional railroads covering northern New England from Mattawamkeag, Maine, to Rotterdam Junction, New York. Pan Am Railways is primarily made up of former Class II regional railroads such as Boston and Maine Corporation, Maine Central Railroad Company, Portland Terminal Company, and Springfield Terminal Railway Company. It was formerly known as Guilford Transportation Industries and was also known as Guilford Rail System. Guilford bought the name, colors, and logo of Pan American World Airways in 1998. The company is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation under rail subsidiary CSX Transportation since June 1, 2022, Pan Am Railways former parent company was Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Pan Am Systems. It was headquartered in Iron Horse Park in North Billerica, Massachusetts. Pan Am Railways parent Pan Am Systems was put up for sale in July 2020. On November 30, 2020, CSX Corporation announce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies that controlled railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation completed merging in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired about half of Conrail in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Railway. In 2022, it acquired Pan Am Railways, extending its reach into northern New England. Norfolk Southern remains CSX's chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Connecticut Trolley Museum
The Connecticut Trolley Museum, also known as the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum, is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to electric railroading in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... Founded in October 1940, the museum is located in East Windsor, Connecticut and is open to the public February through December. The museum features static and moving displays, and self-guided tours of the state's trolley history. Also located on the same property is the Connecticut Fire Museum which exhibits antique fire apparatus and motor coaches. Heritage Railroad The museum operates a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) heritage railroad over the original right-of-way of the Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Company's Rockville Branch. The Rockville Branch start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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East Windsor, Connecticut
East Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region. The population was 11,190 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town has five villages: Broad Brook, Connecticut, Broad Brook, Melrose, Scantic, Warehouse Point and Windsorville. History In 1633, Settlers laid claim to the area now known as Windsor, Connecticut, Windsor, which included East Windsor. No English settlers lived on the east side of the river. The first English settler in what is today known as East Windsor, was William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1636, he erected a warehouse for his settlement's transshipment of goods at what is now known as "Warehouse Point". Warehouse Point served as the southern border of Springfield, Massachusetts, for 132 years—until 1768—when Warehouse Point, Connecticut, was annexed by the Connecticut Colony. Pyncho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Manchester Street Railway
The Manchester Street Railway was a light interurban railway that ran from Manchester to Nashua, New Hampshire. History The Manchester Horse Railroad Company was incorporated in 1864. The company changed its name to the Manchester Street Railway in 1889, which in turn was renamed the Manchester Traction Light & Power Company in 1901. In 1903 the Goff's Falls, Litchfield & Hudson Street Railway Company was incorporated. In 1905 the Manchester Street Railway's main car barn burned down, so they ordered 11 Laconia cars numbered 94 - 116 in even numbers. Many of the Manchester Street Railway's cars were manufactured by the Laconia Car Company in Laconia, New Hampshire. The Goff's Falls, Litchfield & Hudson Street Railway Company was renamed the Manchester and Nashua Street Railway in 1907. Near the end, the railway couldn't afford to keep lines energized after hours, and scrappers would climb the poles and dismantle the lines. The Manchester Street Railway ceased operations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Seashore Trolley Museum
Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles. While the main focus of the collection is Tram, trolley cars (trams), it also includes rapid transit trains, Interurban cars, trolley buses, and motor buses. The Seashore Trolley Museum is owned and operated by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (NEERHS).Young, Andrew D. (1997). ''Veteran & Vintage Transit'', pp. 43–48. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. . Of the museum's collection of more than 350 vehicles, ten trolley and railroad cars that historically operated in Maine were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Maine Trolley Cars. A separate building houses the largest model railroad layout in the state of Maine. History Theodore F. Santarelli de Brasch and Osmond Richard Cummings were two of the founders of the museum, which was initially operated as the Seashore Electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vermonter (train)
The ''Vermonter'' is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between St. Albans, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., via New York City. It replaced the overnight '' Montrealer'', which terminated in until 1995. Amtrak receives funding from the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont for ''Vermonter'' operations north of New Haven. During fiscal year 2023, the ''Vermonter'' carried 99,974 passengers (not including riders between New Haven and Washington, D.C.), a 14.5% increase from FY22. In FY16, the train earned $5,718,268 in revenue, a decrease of 1.8% from FY15. History Montrealer The ''Vermonter'' was preceded by an overnight train between Montreal and Washington that was known as the ''Montrealer'', which was inaugurated in 1924 as a joint service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New Haven Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad, the Central Vermont Railway and the Canadian National Railway. Another train, the ''Ambassador'', ran the same route during the daytime, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |