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Around 1953-54-55 there was a big derailment in the Acton/Westford area, can't say precisely where. I have seen photos of it too. Big hook was called out. Can't tell you where the photos were either, Shoreline maybe.

The Mount Kineo House was operated by the Samoset Company, Maine Central's hotel management subsidiary. Samoset also operated the Samoset at Rockland. The Coburn Steamboat Company operated a fleet of steamers on Moosehead and connected Kineo Station with the Mount Kineo. Coburn's steamers served a n...

My August 1909 Official Guide says there was WAS passenger service across Ontario between Buffalo and Detroit. The service included those roads which would be considered secondary in the Boston/New York to Chicago market. Like Boston & Maine to Rotterdam Jct.-West Shore to Buffalo-Wabash beyond....

Railway Express was owned by the railroads and I'm guessing that non-owning roads could still participate in the Railway Express business. From 1960 Moody's these roads still were carrying passengers but did not have any ownership in REA: Chicago & Northwestern, Monon, Grand Trunk Western, Centr...

Some of those bridges that the Valuation Survey called culverts were probably big enough to drive a Model T Ford through if they had been over roads.

With the later numbering system there could be more than one Bridge 94.08. But the route designation and/or town or nearest station name would pinpoint the location.

Bridge 94.08 is probably measured from Boston. When the B & M Valuation Survey was being made as of June 30, 1914, bridges were numbered starting with 1. As to what got a number is probably lost to history, but assume there was a Bridge 41. The previous one would have been 40 and the next 42. Th...

In the Tebbets to Nadeau Rd section, it looks like that is a B&M piggyback trailer. When those trailers were obsolete they were frequently sold to outfits that used them for storage purposes. At $250 each, scrap price it was much cheaper than constructing a storage building; if the neighbors com...

On the B & M, it was done sometimes where passenger trains tied up, especially at lay up points that were created after the MBTA assumed the commuter operation; Ipswich & Ayer. In the Guilford era (B&M, MEC, D&H) there was an operations officer from the D&H who plugged the idea o...

The junction of the Eastern Route Mainline and Manchester-Portsmouth Branch.

There is no need for dual mode power in the electrified territory. In the examples cited in original post the owning agency does not operate whatever freight service is provided. It is some other operator. For the NEC east of New Haven there are G&W (P&W) and CSX.

Regarding the scenario of GE rebuilding the electrification and maybe owning the Milwaukee Road if it went bankrupt, not so. At the time of its last bankruptcy, the MILW had $103 million in first and general mortgage debt and another $55 million in debenture bonds, all superior to any other claim ag...

Eastern Route: Everett, East Everett, Forbes (Forbes Lithograph), Revere, West Lynn, East Lynn, United Shore Machinery Works
Gloucester Branch: West Manchester, Magnolia

Cordaville on the Worcester Line was about where the Fitzgerald Store is at Route 85. Southville was pretty close by, near where Parkerville Road ends.

Most L & N passenger trains probably had diesel power by the early 1950s. L & N bought its first E6 passenger diesels in 1942. While big steam lasted on freights until about 1956, passenger trains passenger service was entrusted to diesels, early.