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Trains Album of Photographs #6 New England Railroads Spiral Bound 1944 20 single
Trains Album of Photographs #6 New England Railroads Spiral Bound 1944 20 single side pages of photos. Measures approx. 10 X 14 inches.
The hub of New England railroading is Boston. From here radiate the main lines, and here the various railroads best show their distinctive personalities. In and out of South Station dash the heavy, closely built Boston & Albany 4-6-6 tank engines with suburban trains. The New Haven's streamlined Hudsons (see front cover) line up with handsome Brewster-green trains for New York, and a New York Central Mohawk occasionally noses its cast pilot up to the bumping post with a through train from Chicago.
Outside South Station, in the middle of Atlantic Avenue, a Climax geared locomotive huffs by with a string of freight cars for the waterfront. Across the Hub City's downtown at North Station, school children study at special tables while waiting for suburban trains, and Pacific locomotives with names like "Lily Pons" or "Old North Bridge" roll in and out at the head of heavy trains.
The railroads fan out from Boston, a half wheel of spokes to all directions inland. Southwest heads the main line of the New Haven, the shore line to New York. It is not only an important highway of New England commerce, but an important through connection. Joining the Pennsylvania via the Hell Gate Bridge in New York, it forms part of a busy Atlantic Seaboard artery on which New York City is hardly more than a way station. Electrified, highly developed trackage extends from Cedar Hill yard near New Haven through to Harrisburg and Washington. The New Haven also handles a heavy through freight business over its old Central New England line, which crosses the Hudson on a high bridge at Poughkeepsie to join the Erie, Lehigh & Hudson River, and others at Maybrook, N. Y.
Straight west from Boston heads the Boston & Albany, New York Central's line through the Berkshires, which has few branches and serves roughly as a boundary between the New Haven territory to the south and the Boston & Maine territory to the north. B&M's main line to the west roughly parallels the B&A, passing through the Hoosac Tunnel to reach the Hudson Valley. But this trunk is only one line of Boston & Maine, which is a widespread New England institution and one which has won a reputation for unusual helpfulness and friendliness to the people it serves. Other B&M lines run northwest toward Montreal connections, north into the White Mountains and northeast to Portland.
It is these three big railroads which carry the bulk of New England traffic, but the flavor is set no less by the smaller lines such as the Bangor & Aroostook and Maine Central in Maine, the Rutland (photo on this page is a Boston-Montreal train leaving Bellows Falls, Vt., on the Rutland), and the Central Vermont and Grand Trunk, both of which are subsidiaries of the Canadian National.
This is a closely knit territory, heavily industrial. The New England roads carry a high ratio of manufactured goods, and the runs are comparatively short, making railroad operation more like that in Old England. This and the native New England individualism give the railroads an aura all their own.
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