The Troy and Greenfield Railroad, chartered in 1848, ran from

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, to the

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state line. It was leased to the Troy and Boston Railroad in 1856, then consolidated into

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 ...

1887 which in turn was 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.

Station list

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 ...

* Lansingburg, New York *

Melrose, New York Melrose is a hamlet of the Town of Schaghticoke, in Rensselaer County, New York, located approximately five miles north of Troy, and about six miles east of Mechanicville. It is about 30 minutes from Albany, 20 minutes from Clifton Park, a ...

* East Schaghticoke, New York *

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* East Buskirk, New York * Eagle Bridge, New YorkFlickr photo of Boston&Maine RR station@ Eagle Bridge, NY (Thee Archivist)
/ref> * Hoosick Junction, New York *

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* Petersburg Junction, New York * North Pownal, Vermont *

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* Blackington Station, Massachusetts * Greylock Station, Massachusetts *

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Hoosac Tunnel The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a active Rail transport, railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains. It runs in a straight line from its ...

* Hoosac Tunnel Station Connection with Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad * Zoar Station, Massachusetts *

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Buckland, Massachusetts Buckland is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,816 at the 2020 census. The town shares the village of Shelburne Falls with neighboring Shelburne. The town center at Shelburne Falls is the western end o ...

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* Bardwells Ferry, Massachusetts * South River, Massachusetts Connection with Conway Electric Street Railway * West Deerfield, Massachusetts *

References

External links

Boston and Maine timetable map - 1942 (Passenger Railroads of the 1930s-1940s in North America)
Defunct Massachusetts railroads Predecessors of the Boston and Maine Railroad Railway companies established in 1848 Railway companies disestablished in 1862 Greenfield, Massachusetts {{US-rail-company-stub