List of Massachusetts railroads

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Contents 1 Current common carriers 2 Regional and local passenger 3 Excursion and tourist railroads 4 Defunct railroads 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Current common carriers

• Amtrak (AMTK) [1]
• Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR)
• CSX Transportation (CSXT)[2]
• Fore River Terminal Company (FRVT)
• Grafton and Upton Railroad (GU)
• Housatonic Railroad (HRR)
• Massachusetts Central Railroad (MCER)
• Massachusetts Coastal Railroad [3]
• New England Central Railroad (NECR)
• Pan Am Railways (BM, MEC) [4]
• Pioneer Valley Railroad (PVRR)
• Providence and Worcester Railroad (PW) [5]

[edit] Regional and local passenger

• The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) [6] includes the MBTA Commuter Rail and various subway and local surface rail lines.

[edit] Excursion and tourist railroads

• Berkshire Scenic Railway [7]
• Cape Cod Central Railroad [8]

[edit] Defunct railroads

• Amherst and Belchertown Railroad
• Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad
• Billerica and Bedford Railroad
• Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A)
• Boston and Lowell Railroad (B&L)
• Boston and Maine Corporation (B&M)
• Boston and Providence Railroad
• Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad
• Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad
• Cape Cod Railroad
• Consolidated Rail Company (CR) (Conrail, now operating local freight service for CSX and NS) [9]
• Fore River Railroad
• Grafton Centre Railroad
• Hampden Railroad
• Martha's Vineyard Railroad
• Nantucket Railroad
• New London, Willimantic and Springfield Railroad
• New York Central Railroad (NYC) [10]
• New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH or New Haven)
• Old Colony Railroad
• Penn Central (PC)
• Quincy Bay Terminal Company
• Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad

[edit] See also

• List of railroad lines in Massachusetts (a list of all corridors that have existed, not dealing with ownership changes)
• List of United States railroads

[edit] References

• Association of American Railroads (2003), Railroad Service in Massachusetts (PDF). Retrieved May 12, 2005.
• Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9. 

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