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    The Watertown Branch Railroad was a branch loop of the Fitchburg Railroad that was meant to serve the town of Watertown and the City of Waltham, Middlesex...
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    Rome and Watertown Railroad terminated in Cape Vincent, NY on the St. Lawrence River. A branch of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, commonly...
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    The A branch or Watertown Line was a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation...
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    to make way for the Minuteman Commuter Bike Trail.: 137  The Watertown Branch Railroad was incorporated 1847, first as an independent short line RR,...
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    square, while route 70 stops on the north side. The Watertown Branch Railroad opened through Watertown Square in 1847. Passenger service on the line ended...
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    golf course. Part of the Watertown–Cambridge Greenway, a rail trail on the alignment of the former Watertown Branch Railroad, runs along the east side...
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    of Historic Places. Greater Boston Town council Robert Seeley Watertown Branch Railroad Armenian Americans in Massachusetts "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files"...
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    Watertown Branch train. Service to the two stations ended on July 9, 1938, along with the end of passenger service on the Watertown Branch. "Railroad...
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    residents that a railroad would be even more beneficial, and bonds were issued from 1853 to 1855. The Milwaukee and Watertown Railroad, as it was called...
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  • Naugatuck Railroad leased the Watertown and Waterville Railroad, giving it a branch to Waterville. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the...
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  • 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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    Fresh Pond Reservation and the abandoned Watertown Branch Railroad. A portion of the latter path, at the Watertown end, has been completed and design work...
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    Pacific Railroad (UP) of Madison-area ex-C&NW trackage in 1996, and of an ex-Milwaukee Road line between Madison and Watertown from the Soo Line Railroad in...
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    The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming)...
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    after, as did a branch to Porter Square. The connecting Watertown Horse Railroad opened on April 27, 1857. The Porter Square branch was extended to the...
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    and Boston Street Railway. Its line is now the 59 Needham Junction – Watertown Square via Newtonville bus. The Newton and Boston Street Railway was organized...
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    Fitchburg Line (though with no stops in Cambridge Highlands). The Watertown Branch Railroad began construction in 1847, diverging from the Fitchburg main...
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  • Middletown Railroad 1850 New Britain and Middletown Railroad 1868 Watertown and Waterbury Railroad 1870 New Canaan Railroad 1883 Pawtuxet Valley Railroad 1883...
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    Steve (October 21, 2012). "Lowville and Beaver River Railroad". New York Outdoors Blog. Watertown Daily Times. Retrieved 27 August 2021. Virkler, Steve...
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  • and Fairfield counties. The Route 8 corridor and Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North railroad line run along the river valley. Geographically, it comprises...
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    right-of-way of the present-day Minuteman Bikeway. The Watertown Branch Railroad was opened in 1851, branching from the Fitchburg and curving south behind what...
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    but a brand-new railroad line was built, running north from the NYC main line to the NYC's former Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, allowing all...
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    interchange with the Union Pacific Railroad. The RCPE also has trackage rights over the BNSF between Yale, SD to Watertown, South Dakota, and Wolsey, South...
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    that it might have originally been built as a railroad depot, probably from the Watertown Branch Railroad. It is two stories in height, with a shallow-pitch...
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  • terminus of the railroad. The tracks never got that far. It was seven miles beyond Pleasanton. Another ghost town along the tracks was Watertown, where the...
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    road turns northeast to skirt Fresh Pond, crossing the former Watertown Branch Railroad right-of-way, and running for 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to a rotary...
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    Orville Hungerford (category Politicians from Watertown, New York)
    merchant, banker, industrialist, freemason, philanthropist, and railroad president in Watertown, New York. The youngest of seven children, Orville Hungerford...
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  • Vincent branch of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad (RW&O) conveyed both passengers and freight between the waterfront and Watertown (and on to...
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    The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (category Defunct Wisconsin railroads)
    the East Troy branch (beyond Mukwonago) continues to operate as the East Troy Electric Railroad, a 7-mile (11 km) long heritage railroad. There were plans...
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    Harvard Square–Watertown line to Nonantum Square. That line began using electric streetcars on December 13, 1893.: 214  The Cambridge Railroad merged in 1887...
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