Charles River Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It ran from a connection with the end of the Charles River Branch Railroad in...

west and north from Boston. The line is notable for its railroad bridge over the Charles River that passes under the Boston University Bridge between Boston...

Maine Railroad. The Connecticut River Division was the former Connecticut River Railroad. The Eastern Division was the former Eastern Railroad. The Fitchburg...

It opened in 1906 when the New Haven Railroad built the Needham Cutoff to connect the Charles River Railroad to its main line. The station has a single...

Brookfield & Spencer Railroad (EBSR) Fore River Transportation Corporation (FRVT) Grafton and Upton Railroad (GU) Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) Massachusetts...

1852 the Charles River Branch Railroad extended the line to Newton Upper Falls; this would eventually become part of the New England Railroad, an alternate...

as part of the Charles River Railroad. It reached Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1863, and in 1891 the Woonsocket and Pascoag Railroad opened, continuing...

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as...

This is a list of all freight railroad (not streetcar or rapid transit) lines that have been built in Rhode Island, and does not deal with ownership changes...

Territory. The Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) built 1,085 miles (1,746 km) from the road's eastern terminus at the Missouri River settlements of Council Bluffs...

The Upper Hudson River Railroad was a heritage railroad that operated from 1999 to 2010 in the upper Hudson River in New York State's Adirondack Mountains...

as Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod. For many years the Old Colony Railroad Company also operated...

gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British military engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's...

The Charles River Bridge, referred to by the MBTA as Draw One, is a pair of railroad single-leaf, through-truss, rolling bascule bridges across the Charles...

The Raritan River Rail Road (reporting mark RR) was a 12-mile (19 km) shortline railroad in Middlesex County, New Jersey U.S., Founded in 1888, it was...

Worcester Railroad between Boston and Brookline in 1848. The Charles River Branch Railroad, a forerunner of the New York and New England Railroad, extended...

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to...

The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark SLR), known as St-Laurent et Atlantique Quebec (reporting mark SLQ) in Canada, is a short-line railway...

seat of Charles County from 1658 to 1895, was an active port until that portion of the river became silted and unnavigable. When the railroad bypassed...

the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route directly competed with SP's portion...

The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror, the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, and the Ashtabula train disaster) was caused by...

New Haven and Hartford Railroad (reporting mark NH), commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally...

Lumber Company Arcata and Mad River Railroad Bayside Logging Railroad Bear Harbor and Eel River Railroad Birch and Smart Railroad Brookings Lumber and Box...

Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built from the mid-continent at the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean during the middle...

Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was an important transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from...

Connecticut River valley. It also connected Montreal to Boston, in eastern Massachusetts, through a junction with the Boston and Maine Railroad at White River Junction...

state railroad commissioner in 1855 to oversee railway construction, maintenance, and operations, the first person appointed to the position was Charles Linsley...

The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (reporting mark MKT) was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas...

Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route...

terminal junction at N. O. Tower in Northampton with the Connecticut River Railroad. In the late 1860s citizens in the towns of Sudbury, Wayland, and Weston...