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Conley Terminal (South Boston) - This terminal serves as the container facility for the Port of Boston. The terminal itself has been in use since World War II, when it was known as the Castle Island terminal. [19] After Sea-Land pioneered shipping containers in the mid-1960s, Castle Island became one of the first such terminals in the country. [20]
Martha's Vineyard Railroad. Share of the Old Colony Railroad Company, issued April 27, 1883. The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford ...
The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities. It opened in two sections in 1834 and 1835 - one of the first rail lines in the United States - with a more direct route into Providence built in 1847. Branches were built to Dedham in 1834, Stoughton in ...
South Coast Rail. South Coast Rail is a project to build a new southern line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system along several abandoned and freight-only rail lines. The line will restore passenger rail service between Boston and the cities of Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford, via the towns of Berkley, and Freetown, on the south coast of ...
Boston and Maine Railroad: Boston and New York Central Railroad: NH: 1853 1858 Midland Railroad: Boston and Portland Railroad: B&M: 1839 1841 Boston and Maine Railroad: Boston and Providence Railroad: NH: 1831 1972 Penn Central Transportation Company: Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad: 1874 1940 N/A Boston Terminal Company: BTCO NH: 1896 ...
North Cambridge Carhouse. 9. Quincy Garage. 10. Southampton. 11. Watertown Yard. Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green ...
Track 61 next to the BCEC in June 2017. Track 61 is an industrial rail terminal track in South Boston, Massachusetts, also known as the Boston Terminal Running Track. Track 61 is the last remnant of the vast rail yards that once covered much of the South Boston waterfront. Track 61 legally begins at Summer Street, while the line from Bay ...
The Providence/Stoughton Line is an MBTA Commuter Rail service in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, primarily serving the southwestern suburbs of Boston.Most service runs entirely on the Northeast Corridor between South Station in Boston and Providence station or Wickford Junction station in Rhode Island, while the Stoughton Branch splits at Canton Junction and terminates at Stoughton.