Short line Cumberland & Knox made its debut last weekend, running its first train over a 56-mile, state-owned former Maine ...

Forbes released its annual list determining the richest person in every state. Here's how these billionaires made their ...

"Ole 4444," once the pride of the Boston & Maine Railroad, groaned and creaked unobtrusively this week onto a siding behind the Berkshire Coat Factory on Oak Street. The old car today is a mere shadow ...

In Boston’s North Station last week, at the annual meeting of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the most important man was not there. Absent was Wall Street Financier Patrick B. McGinnis, who won ...

which they could actually keep to milks and cheeses which they could then ship to Boston." Maine's rail history didn't start with Maine Central. The first line of railroad tracks in Maine was built by ...

The Troy & Greenbush was leased to the Hudson River Railroad in 1851 and the NY Central took it over in 1913. The Troy & Boston became part of the Boston & Maine in 1900. The Boston and Main had ...

The Northside system originates from North Station and comprise five lines that were once parts of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Amtrak’s Downeaster trains to Portland and Brunswick, Me., originate ...

The founder of the Conway Scenic Railroad, Dwight Smith Jr., recently turned 100 years old.Smith, now a resident of the New Hampshire Veterans Home, came up with the idea for the scenic railroad ...

SEVEN DEATHS IN ALL. Boston, Saturday, Nov. 22. RICHARD HIATT, WM. FITZER and JOHN RAFFERTY were undoubtedly killed or drowned by the railroad drawbridge disaster at Charlestown yesterday morning.

Kineo Hotel on Moosehead Lake in Maine. He wasn’t particularly flush in 1931 when the Boston & Maine Railroad approached him about taking over the lodging atop Mount Washington (elev. 2,869 feet). At ...

The 800-square-foot brick structure between the Gasholder and the highway in south Concord was built before World War I by the Boston & Maine Railroad as part of the massive Concord rail yard ...