The Troy and Boston Railroad was chartered April 4, 1848 and organized November 22, 1849. It completed a railroad from

Troy, New York Troy is a city in and the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York, United States. It is located on the western edge of the county, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River just northeast of the capital city of Albany, New York, Albany. At the ...

to the

Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...

state line (35 miles) in 1852. This was also the main track of the Troy and Rutland Railroad,

Rutland and Washington Railroad The Rutland and Washington Railroad was a railroad company based in Rutland (city), Vermont, Rutland, Vermont, United States. It was chartered in Vermont on November 13, 1847, and built between Rutland and Eagle Bridge, New York, Eagle Bridge in ...

, and the

Rutland Railway The Rutland Railroad was a railroad in the northeastern United States, located primarily in the state of Vermont but extending into the state of New York at both its northernmost and southernmost ends. After its closure in 1961, parts of the ...

. This formed, in connection with the

Hudson River Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midw ...

, the most direct and shortest line from New York to Montreal. It was consolidated into the

Fitchburg Railroad The Fitchburg Railroad is a former railroad company, which built a railroad line across northern Massachusetts, United States, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel. The Fitchburg was leased to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900. The main l ...

in 1887, which was in turn acquired by

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 e ...

by lease in 1900.

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Defunct New York (state) railroads Defunct Vermont railroads Defunct Massachusetts railroads Predecessors of the Boston and Maine Railroad Railway companies established in 1848 Railway companies disestablished in 1887 American companies established in 1848 {{US-rail-company-stub