Other than the MEC & the B&M, what other railroads large or small existed in New England?
Just curious
Gordon
Bangor & Aroostook, Aroostook Valley Railroad, Canadian Pacific off the top of my head. Many two foot narrow gauge lines in the past.
Bob Boudreau
Let’s see…
Bangor and Aroostock which is now Montreal, Maie and Atlantic
St. Lawrence and Atlantic
Vermont Railway
Central Vermont
Sandy River and Rangely Lakes (narrow gauge)
Belfast and Moosehead Lake
Maine Coast Line, which became Safe Handling Rail, now Maine Eastern
Depends on the time frame. As of 1950, these qualified:
Class 1 (as defined at the time)
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Boston & Albany
Central Vermont
Rutland
Grand Trunk
B&M
MEC
Bangor & Aroostook
Canadian Pacific
Short Lines:
Aroostook Valley
Belfast and Moosehead Lake
Sanford & Eastern
Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington
St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County
’ Course if you want to back a few more years, there are the Maine 2 footers:
Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes (which itself was an amalgamation of several 2 footers)
Bridgton & Saco River
Kennebec Central
Wiscasset , Waterville and Farmington
Monson
Andre
Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington
Berlin Mills
Lamoille Valley
Rutland
Boston & Alpany
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Portland Terminal
Providence & Worcester
Wiscasset & Quebec
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington
Monson
Fitchburg
Warwick
Narragemsett Pier Railroad
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Kennebec Central
Harrison & Bridgton
Penn Central
Green Mountain
Don’t forget International of Maine, the CP subsidiary.
You all forgot Conrail - now CSX!
Gilford Family Lines
Amtrak
I’m modeling Vermont Railway and Green Mountain Railroad
there is also the Conway Scenic railroad that i don’t think anyone mentioned
MBTA, bay colony?
IIRC you model CP in modern times, so here’s a list of modern RR’s in New England that interchange with CP (I might have missed some):
Vermont Rail System (Whitehall, NY)
Guilford (Albany, NY area)
CSX (Albany, NY area)
Amtrak (trackage rights on Albany to Montreal section)
Norfolk Southern (trackage/haulage rights on entire section)
CN (NS/CP trackage rights train that operates with CN power from Harrisburg, PA to Montreal)
UP power (usually C44ACCTE’s) is common on some of the Bow, NH coal trains that NS operates on the CP between Binghampton, NY and Albany, NY.
Other NE RR’s (most have already been mentioned)
NYC (Boston & Albany)
New Haven
CR
New England Central
P&W
CSOR
Claremont & Concord
Montreal Maine & Atlantic
there are many more, but those are just ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
I can’t believe you guys left out the D&H!!
Delaware and Hudson…
One thing I like about modelling the Boston & Maine…I can have just about every roadname on my tracks depending on what era I’m modelling!
from D&H PA’s to Santa Fe SD26’s!
And don’t forget the unique Springfield Terminal Railway (Springfield, VT) - once upon a time arguably the best known shortline in America, with just 5.6 miles of track (so widely known because of the numerous detailed prototype and modeling articles about it in Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman magazines down through the years - particularly during the 1950’s and 60’s).
CNJ831
IIRC, the D&H ran only in PA and NY, neither of which is technically a New England State.
Andre
in 1970’s D&H PA’s would frequent Boston for passenger runs and an Inspection train rode the B&M trackage as well. B&M even loaned a couple RS units (#1508) to the D&H so they could run passenger service while the PA’s were shopped.
So while technically you could say NY and PA are not New England states…the road names did appear on New England Trackage and thats what makes it prototypical to model the foreign roads.