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	Boston and Lowell Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a three-mile, horse-powered railroad, built to move large granite stones from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts to the Neponset River in Milton.
		The Salem and Lowell Railroad was chartered in 1848 as a branch from the Lowell and Lawrence at Tewksbury Junction to the Essex Railroad at Peabody, along which it used trackage rights to Salem.
		The NandL leased the Stony Brook in 1848.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_and_Lowell_Railroad (4382 words)

	Lowell National Historical Park - The Waltham-Lowell System
		There Lowell and his fellow entrepreneurs, later called the "Boston Associates," transformed the country's fledgling textile industry.
		As their fortunes grew, the Boston Associates turned to -philanthropy-establishing hospitals and schools-and to politics, playing a prominent role in the Whig Party in Massachusetts.
		Until the Civil War, the Boston Associates were New England's dominant capitalists.
	www.nps.gov /lowe/loweweb/Lowell_History/Waltham_Lowell.htm (292 words)

	Nashua City Station - Nashua & Lowell Railroad
		The charter for the Nashua and Lowell was obtained in 1835 and 1836 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts respectively.
		Following the breakup, the Nashua and Lowell was pinned with the lease of the Peterborough Railroad and all its financial woes.
		In 1880, the Boston and Lowell leased the failing Nashua and Lowell, and in 1887 the Boston and Lowell was leased to the Boston and Maine Railroad.
	www.nashuacitystation.com /nashua.php?content=lowell (534 words)

	railroad
		The railroads were the one of the earliest businesses that required an established protocol so that the safety of the passengers was ensured and the operations of the business could proceed.
		The tools used to manage traffic on the railroads included bells, lamp signals and flags, the timetables noting the superiority of trains, the telegraph and dispatch form, and explaining the use of these elements, the rules of operation that were printed and revised yearly.
		Just as the railroads altered the experience of time by removing travelers from the traditional markers of travel, compelling travelers to while away the time by an abstract action, reading, so, too, speed compressed the space traversed, and even the way travelers related to their own urbanity.
	www.lehigh.edu /~cmp8/worksinprogress/Railroad_Paper.html (7566 words)

	Railroad Maps of the United States.
		Railroads and the use of steam propulsion developed separately, however, and it was not until the two systems merged that railroads began to flourish.
		This map, annotated to show geological structures along the route of the railroad, is an example of the general survey maps prepared to illustrate progress reports of individual railroads, as well as of specific right-of-way surveys.
		The Railroad Act of 1862 put government support behind the transcontinental railroad and helped create the Union Pacific Railroad (see entry 588), which subsequently joined with the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, and signaled the linking of the continent.
	cprr.org /Museum/Maps/Modelski_LOC_1975.html (7031 words)

	A GUIDE TO THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To establish a repository for documents pertaining to the Boston and Maine Railroad and the history of railroads in New England was one of the Society's initial objectives.
		Railroad company annual reports to stockholders are filed under the.M3118 classification in the vertical files and in the locked cabinet near the emergency exit.
		The Boston and Lowell Railroad, the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and the Salem and Lowell Railroad by Francis B. Bradlee.
	www.trainweb.org /bmrrhs/guide.html (5442 words)

	America's First Trains
		The Portage Railroad was 36-1/2 miles long, with a total rise and fall of 2,570 ft. The inclination of the planes varied from 7-1/4 ft. to 10-1/4 ft. in 100 ft.
		The Portage Railroad was thirty-six and a half miles long, with a total rise and fall of 2,570 ft. The inclination of the planes varied from 7-1/4 ft. to 10-1/4 ft. per hundred foot length.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered in 1827, four years after the first charter of the Philadelphia and Columbia line, but it was not until about 1830 that the first twelve mites were completed.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r013.html (2853 words)

	The Billerica & Bedford Railroad
		The upstart Boston and Lowell Railroad was at work, charting a route for a rail line between two important cities of commerce in the Commonwealth, Lowell and Boston.
		Proposed was an 8.63-mile rail line between the Boston and Lowell's station in North Billerica and the Middlesex Central's Bedford Station to the south.
		When the railroad ceased operating in the 1930s, it was purchased by the owner of a cranberry farm in South Carver, Massachusetts, and transported there.
	www.bedforddepot.org /BBHistory.html (1791 words)

	Cambridge Massachusetts, 1890
		Somerville lies along its northeast side; Boston, on the eastern, southeastern, southern and southwestern sides (Brighton district); Watertown, on its extreme northwestern side; Belmont on the west, and Arlington on the northwest.
		East Cambridge is connected with Charlestown by Prison Point Bridge, and with Boston by Canal or Craigie's Bridge and the viaduct of the Boston and Lowell Railroad.
		The commodious edifices of the Dental School and of the Medical School are in Boston, where the greatest facilities of illustration and practice, in offices and in the several hospitals, are conveniently at hand.
	capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/Cambridge1890.htm (2056 words)

	History of Railroad Maps
		Railroads and steam propulsion developed separately, and it was not until the one system adopted the technology of the other that railroads began to flourish.
		Railroads were also needed in the West to provide better postal service, as had been developed in the East, by designating railroad lines "post roads" in 1838.
		General railroad maps, depicting continental and national areas and using the basic style developed in the previous century, continued to be popular until the beginning of World War II.
	www.1worldglobes.com /History/historyofrailroadmaps.htm (4207 words)

	Railroads around Boston
		Boston is one of the few cities in America that still has two railroad stations.
		On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
		Boston, Revere Beach andamp; Lynn was a threeand#45;foot narrow gauge railroad.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/Boston1.html (2056 words)

	RRHistory
		1870 - The Lexington and Arlington Railroad is acquired by the Boston and Lowell Railroad.
		The Boston and Maine Railroad's Reformatory Branch was in operation until 1962 as a freight line between Bedford Depot and Concord Center.
		1962 - The Boston and Maine Railroad abandons the remainder of the Reformatory Branch between Bedford and Concord Center and the section of the Lexington Branch between Bedford Depot and Concord Road in Billerica.
	www.bedforddepot.org /RRHistory.html (1017 words)

	Towpath Topics - August 1967
		The irony is that the granite ties for the railroad and even the Boston and Lowell locomotive was transported up the canal by barge to Lowell, where it was assembled and put in service.
		A petition for a charter for a railroad between Lowell and Boston was made to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1829.
		The excavations for the railroad near Boston were used for fill for the flats (which were inexpensive to buy) thereby gaining about ten acres of land which was adequate at that time.
	www.middlesexcanal.org /towpath/towpathtopicsAug1967.htm (3965 words)

	LHS- Lowell Historical Society
		Jefferson Bancroft (1803 - 1890) came to Lowell in 1824 and was the city’s Mayor from 1846 to 1848.
		The Boston and Lowell Railroad was the first chartered railway in the country and was incorporated in 1830 by the same investors as the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals.
		The Lowell Fire Department was formed in 1829 to serve the growing population and industries of the town.
	ecommunity.uml.edu /lhs/research.htm (2240 words)

	Boston and Providence Railroad - 1860's
		Planning and construction of railroads in the United States progressed rapidly and haphazardly, without direction or supervision from the states that granted charters to construct them.
		It was not until the Boston and Lowell Railroad diverted traffic from the Middlesex Canal that the success of the new mode of transportation was assured.
		Before the 1850 land grant to the Illinois Central Railroad, indirect federal subsidies were provided by the federal government in the form of route surveys made by army engineers.
	www.scripophily.net /bosandprovra.html (820 words)

	Winchester - Middlesex Canal
		With that stream and its canals, continuous water passage was possible from Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, to Concord, the capital of New Hampshire.
		People wishing to travel by packet from Boston to Middlesex Village (Chelmsford to 1826, Lowell thereafter) or any of the towns along the route, must first cross the Charles River to the passenger terminal in Charlestown, which was located at the corner of the present Rutherford Avenue and Essex Street.
		On January 16, 1844 the proprietors voted that the treasurer be authorized to present a petition to the legislature for an alteration in the charter for a new act authorizing the use of the water of the canal for the supply of the inhabitants of Boston and the surrounding towns.
	www.winchestermass.org /canal.html (2304 words)

	Winchester - Inside Winchester Table of Contents
		In 1836, with the completion of the Boston and Lowell steam railroad, the Canal became outmoded and by 1850 it was abandoned.
		In 1893, the possibility of cooperation between the newly-created Metropolitan District Commission and Winchester to eliminate the railroad yards, tanneries, and lumberyards was suggested.
		After more than a hundred years of controversy, the grade crossing of the railroad was finally eliminated with the construction of the rail overpass in 1956.
	www.winchestermass.org /inside1.html (1611 words)

	Once upon a time there was a Boston & Maine Railroad.
		In the modern era, the road was operationally divided between the Boston (eastern) and Fitchburg (western) divisions.
		The Boston & Maine and the Boston & Lowell were brought together in 1887.
		The Connecticut River Railroad was leased in 1893; the Concord & Montreal in 1895; and the Fitchburg in 1900.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/BostonMaine1.html (1258 words)

	A Comparison of the Blackstone and Middlesex Canals - by B.H. Dickson
		Weston has more than once expressed a passionate desire of visiting Boston and has frequently told me that she longed to be acquainted with ladies and gentlemen of that metropolis.
		The trip to Middlesex Village took 7 hours and it connected with a ferry to Boston on the Charlestown end and a stage to Lowell on the upper end – that is, after Lowell became a place of some consequence.
		Receipts slumped badly with the advent of the railroad and continued downward during the remainder of the canal's existence.
	www.middlesexcanal.org /towpath/blackstone-middlesex.htm (3979 words)

	University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Lowell History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The railroad's chief engineer was the son of the canal's first superintendent, Laommi Baldwin.
		The Boston and Lowell Railroad was the beginning of the end for the canal.
		The railroad, by contrast, could operate year round and was more dependable, as well as faster.
	library.uml.edu /clh/MC/Mc6.Html (259 words)

	Danvers State Insane Asylum
		Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee was born in Boston, MA on June 1st 1829.
		Bradlee was educated at Chauncey Hall school in Boston from which he graduated in 1846.
		Quickly making a name for himself in the Boston architectural community, in 1867 Bradlee was one of the nine founding members of the Boston Society of Architects (the very first meeting of which took place in Bradlee's office at 18 Pemberton Square).
	www.danvers-state-ia.com /njb.html (484 words)

	Boston.com / Real estate
		Exceptional schools are not all that draws people to this leafy suburb eight miles north of Boston.
		There's a vibrant downtown that has retained its historic character, a stop on the MBTA commuter rail line to North Station, Mystic Lake, the Aberjona River, and the 2,575-acre Middlesex Fells Reservation, a retreat for hikers, horseback riders, cross-country skiers, and picnickers.
		Winchester, originally a farming community of 200 settlers, evolved into a mill town with the advent of the Middlesex Canal and the Boston & Lowell Railroad.
	www.boston.com /realestate/communities/profiles/2002/winchester.html (579 words)

	Boston Apartments - JVT Realty - Arlington Apartments, Somerville Apartments, Cambridge Apartments
		Boston Apartments - JVT Realty - Arlington Apartments, Somerville Apartments, Cambridge Apartments
		MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AGO, a Boston silver-smith jumped on his horse and took a late-night ride that would change the course of history.
		The rail-trail conversion was fueled by the Clean Air Act of 1977 and funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a cost of $2 million.
	www.bostonapartments.com /jvt-6.htm (363 words)

	The History of Theodore Edson Parker Foundation
		The complete story of the Parker Foundation begins not 50 years ago, however, but 117 years ago, in Lowell, Massachusetts, on the evening of April 24, 1877, in the reception room of Huntington Exhibition Hall above the Boston and Lowell railroad station.
		News dispatches were passed over the wires to and from the Boston and Lowell papers.
		In attendance at either the April 24 demonstration or the public demonstration the next day was Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, a man of foresight, destined to become a wealthy man through Bell's invention and his own recognition of its prospective significance.
	www.grantsmanagement.com /parkerhistory.html (454 words)

	LHS- Lowell Historical Society
		Lowell is incorporated as a town March 1, population 2,500
		The Lowell Bleachery is incorporated; District schools abolished; Sept. 15, Judge Livermore dies.
		Whittier's "Stranger in Lowell" and Miles' "Lowell as It Was and as It Is," are published.
	ecommunity.uml.edu /lhs/lowell_history.htm (1606 words)

	Town of Winchester
		The Middlesex Canal, which opened in 1803, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad which supplanted it in 1835, worked to change the character of the village.
		Naturally enough, the public offices of the new town were located near the church and railroad in the area that rapidly became the town's commercial, social, and religious center.
		Simultaneously, Boston businessmen began settling in Winchester, attracted by the railroad which made commuting possible.
	www.winchester.us /towninformation/History.html (937 words)

	History of Trinity Lutheran Church, Chelmsford, MA
		After two years, a lot on Meadowcroft street, near the Boston and Lowell Railroad, and Salem and Lowell Railroad, was purchased.
		This choir was always in demand to sing at District functions as well as at various churches in the greater Lowell area.
		It was during his service to our church that the new hymnal was introduced in 1958 and that the Lutheran Church in America was organized in 1962.
	www.trinity-chelmsford.org /history/chrono.htm (1398 words)

	Railroad Scripophily Collection
		Here is my collection of railroad stock certificates including horse, railway, local and interstate.
		Railroad certificates are among the most popular in scripophily.
		For tons of information about railroad stocks, go see Terry at www.coxrail.com and buy his book.
	www.certificatecollector.com /html/collects/railroad.html (90 words)

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