Francis D. Donovan Papers. undated, 1829-1997.

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Francis D. Donovan Papers., undated, 1829-1997.

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Francis D. Donovan Papers. undated, 1829-1997.

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Abstract

Francis D. Donovan (1917-2005) was a resident of Medway, Massachusetts, and an avid railroad photograph and memorabilia collector and researcher, particularly of materials associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor lines. His papers consist of his writings and research files about the railroad; photographs of stations, engines, and railroad scenes; maps, scrapbooks, postcards and timetables.

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Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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Texas Midland Railroad.

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Union Street Railroad

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Magama Arizona Railroad

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Northern Massachusetts Street Railroad

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Rahway Valley Railroad

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Manhattan Elevated Railroad.

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Mount Tomalpais & Muir Woods Railroad

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Thameshaven Railroad

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Norway & Paris Street Railroad

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S.L.D.W. Company Railroad

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Lehigh & New England Railroad

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Minneapolis Street Railroad

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Missouri Pacific Railroad

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Claremont & Concord Railroad

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Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad

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Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Saint Louis Railroad

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Somerset Railroad

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The Somerset Railroad was founded in 1861 in Oakland, Maine. Reorganized in 1883 as the Somerset Railway, it was sold in 1904 to the Kennebec Valley Railroad Co. and in 1911 to Maine Central. It dissolved in 1929. From the description of Construction and equipment day book, 1868-1883 / Somerset Rail Road. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 436936426 ...

Japanese Imperial Railroad

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Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad

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S.E. & C. Railroad

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Mount Washington Railroad

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Boston & Lynn Railroad

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Delaware, Lakawana & Western Railroad

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West Shore Railroad

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Pacific Great Eastern Railroad

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Augusta, Winthrop & Gardiner Street Railroad

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Boston Elevated Railroad

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Portland Terminal Railroad

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Société nationale des chemins de fer français.

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Albany & Hudson Railroad

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Chatham & Lebanon Valley Railroad

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Bath & Hammondsport Railroad

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Springfield Electric Railroad

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Les Locomotives Francaises Railroad

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Dan Malloy

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Middlesex & Boston Street Railroad

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Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad

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Sabanilla & Maroto F.C. Railroad

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Berkshire Street Railroad

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Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad

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Portland Railroad

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Kennebec Lewiston Railroad

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Burlington Railroad

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Kansas City Southern Railroad

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Mount Tom Railroad

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Concord, Maynard & Hudson Railroad

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French Supply Council Railroad

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Boston, Lowell & Northern Railroad

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White Pass & Yukon Railroad

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Berlin Street Railroad

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Milford & Woonsocket Railroad

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Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

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Frisco Lines Railroad

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Francis D. Donovan was born in Norfolk, Massachusetts, on June 29, 1917 . His love of railroads was fostered by his father, Daniel F. Donovan, a section foreman on the Wrentham branch of the Old Colony Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (better known as the New Haven Railroad ). Although Daniel Donovan ended his employment with the railroad to become a policeman or security guard soon after his son was born, he retained his own interest in the railroad and f...

Central New England Railway

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Quincy & Boston Street Railway

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Williams, George B., 1862-

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United States Military Railroad.

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Pere Marquette Railroad

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Saint Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad

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Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad

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Taunton & Pawtucket Railroad

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Boston & Providence Railroad

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Grand Trunk Railroad.

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Cain Company Railroad

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Erie Railroad

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New York Central Railroad

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Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad

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Mason Locomotive Works Railroad

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Bangor Street Railroad

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Edinburgh Railroad

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Daniel Donovan

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Eastern Taunton Street Railroad

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Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railroad

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Springfield Term Railroad

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Orono Railroad

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Peabody, Salem & Beverly Railroad

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Lehigh Valley Railroad.

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Portland-Lewiston Interurban Railroad Co.

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National Railroad of Mexico Railroad

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Philippine Railroad

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Brookline Railroad

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New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad

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Chicago & North Western Railroad

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Midland Railroad

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Jersey Central Railroad

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Manchester Street Railroad

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

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Manson Railroad

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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

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Northern Pacific Railroad

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Newburyport Car Company Railroad

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Claremont Railroad

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French National Railroad

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

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Canadian Pacific Railroad

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Saint Louis & Southern Railroad

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Knox Railroad

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Worcester Consolidated Street Railroad

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Frank Pearson

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Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad

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The Newburgh, Dutchess, and Coonecticut Railroad was a shortline that ran from Beacon to Millerton, New York. It was originally chartered in 1866 as the Dutches and Columbia Railroad, but reoragnized and renamed in 1877. In 1904, this line was acquired by the New York, Hew Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. The Clove Brach line operated from the iron ore mines near Sylvan Lake to the mainline at Hopewell Junction. From the description of Records, 1877-1905. (New York State Library...

Milford, Attleboro, & Woonsocket Railroad

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Walter R. Figg

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Henschel & John Kassel Railroad

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Penn Central Railroad

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Connecticut Company

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Saint Clair Tunnel Railroad

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Bangor & Aroostook Railroad.

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Grand Trunk Western Railroad

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Rocky Nook Railroad

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Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.

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Wood River Railroad

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Ansonia, Derby & Birmingham

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Cie Haitenne du Wharf Railroad

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Southern Railroad

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New York, Ontario & Western Railroad.

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New Haven Railroad

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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The MBTA is the state agency responsible for the public transportation system in the Boston metropolitan area. From the description of Glass plate collection on the MBTA, 1896-1940 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360181 The Boston Elevated Railway Company was established in 1894 and replaced successively by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 1947 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1964. From the description of Boa...

Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad

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Waterville, Fairfield & Oakland Railroad

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Boston & Lowell Railroad

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Biddeford & Saco Railroad

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Rutland Railroad

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Maine Central Railroad Company

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In 1845 the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to build a line from Danville Junction on the Atlantic & St. Lawrence (Grand Trunk) to Waterville, and the Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to extend the Androscoggin & Kennebec line to Bangor. The former line was completed to Waterville in 1849, and the first train entered Bangor over the latter road in August, 1855. These railroads, forming a continuous line between Danville Junction and Bangor, were consolid...

Detriot, Toledo & Ironton Railroad

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Brockton & Taunton Railroad

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Kennebec Coal & Wharf Company

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Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad

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Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Railroad

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Boston Electric Street Railroad

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T.M.C. Railroad

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Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railroad

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Norfolk Company Railroad

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Narragansett Railroad

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Donovan, Francis D.

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Texas Railroad

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Santa Fe Railroad

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Mount Hope Railroad

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Nanhant & Lynn Railroad

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Claredon & Pittsford Railroad

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Florida East Coast Railroad.

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Burlington & Missouri River Railroad

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Lynn & Boxford Railroad

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Ferrocarilles del Valle de Mexico Railroad/

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Rockland & Abington Railroad

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Massachusetss Bay Transportation Authority Railroad

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Levensverzekering Railroad

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Pacific Coast Borax Railroad

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Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad

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New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad

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Northern Pacific Central Railroad

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Potter, Gene

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Burlington, Billerica, North Billerica Railroad

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Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad

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ConRail

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The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

Saint Louis Southwestern Railroad

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Long Island Railroad

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Green Bay & Western Railroad

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Mount Hope Industries Railroad

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Providence & Worcester Railroad.

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The Providence & Worcestor Railroad was incorporated in Massachusetts as the Providence and Worcester Railway on March 12, 1844, and as the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Rhode Island in May 1844. The two companies merged November 25, 1845, as the Providence and Worcester Railroad . The company bought the Blackstone Canal, also running between Providence, Rhode Island, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and began construction, partly on its banks, in 1845. The line opened in tw...

Texas & Brazos Valley Railroad

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Cumberland Railroad

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Virginian Railroad

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Old Colony & Newport Railroad

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Somerset Traction Company Railroad

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East Branch & Lincoln Railroad

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Baldwin Locomotive Works Experimental Railroad

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J. H. French

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Central Pacific Railroad.

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Cape Cod Central Railroad

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Albany Southern Railroad

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Chicago & Alton Railroad

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Boston & Maine Railroad

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Wabash Railroad

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Penrhyn Quarry Railroad

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Steamtown Railroad

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Saint Louis Southwestern Railroad

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Springfield Terminal Railroad

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Quincy & Boston Railroad

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Fitchburg Railroad

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Monandock Northern Railroad

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Bay State Street Railroad

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Southern New York Railroad

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Minneapolis Western Railroad

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Norfolk & Western Railroad

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Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Railroad

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New York, Providence & Boston Railroad.

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Warwick Railroad

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Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad

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Alaska Railroad

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The Alaska Railroad began operating in 1923, under the Alaska Railroad Commission (previously the Alaskan Engineering Commission). From the description of Alaska Railroad tour lantern slide collection [graphic], 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 56507928 During World War II, the Alaska Railroad was used by the army to transport military personnel, supplies, and construction materials between Seward, Whittier, Anchorage, and Fairbanks. To facilitate these activities and to...

Monandock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad

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Boston & Northern Railroad

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Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad

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Boston & New York City Railroad

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Richmond Washington Railroad

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Central of Georgia Railroad

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Texas Pacific Railroad.

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West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railroad

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Clinchfield Railroad

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Aroostook Valley Railroad

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Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad

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Suncook Valley Railroad

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Reading Railroad

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Troy & New England Railroad

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New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York. Approximately one hundred small independent railroads were built in southern New England between 1826 and the 1880s. B...

Penn Central

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Amesbury Newburyport Railroad

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Illinois Central Railroad.

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William Mason

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Fletcher, Jennings & Company Railroad

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North Carolina & Saint Louis Railroad

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Nord Railway

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Georgetown Loop Railroad.

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Western Maryland Railroad

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Nickel Plate Railroad

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click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the Nickel Plate Railroad The New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Company, better known as the Nickel Plate Railroad, was founded in 1881. It connected Buffalo and Chicago by way of Cleveland, Ohio. When the line was completed, the company was christened the "Nickel Plated Road" by the editor of the Norwalk Chronicle. This nickname was formally adopted by the railroad for its trade name and subsequ...