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- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad abstract "The Agricultural Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It was incorporated by the Legislature of Massachusetts on April 26, 1847 to provide a rail connection between Framingham and Northborough through the town of Southborough and a small portion of the city of Marlborough. Service began on December 1, 1855.A 1.5-mile branch off the 13.2-mile main line from Marlborough Junction into Marlborough was added in June 1855. In July 1866, the railroad opened a 14-mile extension from Northborough to the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad at Pratts Junction in Sterling via the towns of Berlin, Boylston, Lancaster, and Clinton, bringing the entire line up to 28.7 miles of track and establishing connections to Fitchburg and the growing railroad hub of Worcester. On May 20, 1867, the name of the railroad was changed to the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad, and in 1869, it merged with the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad.On April 1, 1872, the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad signed a twenty-year lease of the nearby Framingham and Lowell Railroad, which connected with the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad in Framingham and provided a connection to the major mill city of Lowell.On January 1, 1873, the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad signed a fifty-year lease of the Mansfield and Framingham Railroad, providing a connection to the Boston and Providence Railroad and the Taunton Branch Railroad in Mansfield. On July 1, 1873 the Taunton Branch Railroad merged with the New Bedford and Taunton Railroad and the Middleborough and Taunton Railroad to form the New Bedford Railroad. Less than a year later, on February 2, 1874, the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad entered into a fifty-year lease agreement with the New Bedford Railroad, which provided access to the deep water whaling port at New Bedford. On June 1, 1875, the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad consolidated with the Mansfield and Framingham Railroad, and exactly one year later, on June 1, 1876, the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad merged with the New Bedford Railroad to form the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad. In 1879, the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad was leased to the Old Colony Railroad for 999 years, but on October 1 of that same year nonetheless extended its lease of the Framingham and Lowell Railroad to 998 years. On September 10, 1881, the Framingham and Lowell Railroad was deeded on execution sale to the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg, and New Bedford Railroad, forming the railroad's largest network with 126.2 miles of track system-wide.On March 5, 1883, the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad was outright consolidated into the Old Colony network. In 1893, the Old Colony Railroad was leased to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. By the 1960s, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, like many railroads, was struggling to stay solvent in the face of increased competition from alternate modes of transportation, and so in 1961 it petitioned to be included in the newly formed Penn Central Transportation Company. On December 31, 1968 all of its properties were purchased by Penn Central. Penn Central, however, soon went bankrupt, and on April 1, 1976 it was taken over by Conrail. On August 22, 1998, the Surface Transportation Board approved the buyout of Conrail by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with the former assuming control of the former Agricultural Branch Railroad line.Today, the line is still in use by CSX. The tracks of the former Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad between Sterling Junction and Pratts Junction were abandoned and converted into the Central Mass Rail Trail, and thus the remainder of the line extending north of Pratts Junction has essentially become another extension of the former Agricultural Branch Railroad line. However, the line only extends as far as Leominster, as the tracks between Leominster and Fitchburg have also been abandoned. The branch from Marlborough Junction into Marlborough has also been abandoned. The line is primarily used to haul lumber, corn syrup, scrap metal, and plastic pellets.".
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- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageOutDegree "38".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageRevisionID "672620495".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Berlin,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Boston,_Clinton,_Fitchburg_and_New_Bedford_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Boston_and_Albany_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Boston_and_Providence_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Boylston,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink CSX.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink CSX_Transportation.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_Massachusetts_railroads.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Old_Colony_Railroad_lines.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Clinton,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Conrail.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Fitchburg,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Fitchburg_and_Worcester_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Framingham,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Framingham_and_Lowell_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Lancaster,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Leominster,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Lowell,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Mansfield,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Mansfield_and_Framingham_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Marlborough,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts_General_Court.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_Bedford,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_Bedford_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_Bedford_and_Taunton_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Norfolk_Southern.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Norfolk_Southern_Railway.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Northborough,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Old_Colony_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Penn_Central_Transportation_Company.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Southborough,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Sterling,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Surface_Transportation_Board.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Taunton_Branch_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Taunton_and_Middleborough_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Worcester,_Massachusetts.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Worcester,_Nashua_and_Rochester_Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink File:Agricultural_Branch.JPG.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Agricultural Branch Railroad".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Agricultural Branch".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad hasPhotoCollection Agricultural_Branch_Railroad.
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- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad subject Category:Defunct_Massachusetts_railroads.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad subject Category:Old_Colony_Railroad_lines.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad hypernym Railroad.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad type Company.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad type PublicTransitSystem.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad type Company.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad type Line.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad comment "The Agricultural Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It was incorporated by the Legislature of Massachusetts on April 26, 1847 to provide a rail connection between Framingham and Northborough through the town of Southborough and a small portion of the city of Marlborough. Service began on December 1, 1855.A 1.5-mile branch off the 13.2-mile main line from Marlborough Junction into Marlborough was added in June 1855.".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad label "Agricultural Branch Railroad".
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad sameAs m.0gk_j96.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad sameAs Q4693872.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad sameAs Q4693872.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad wasDerivedFrom Agricultural_Branch_Railroad?oldid=672620495.
- Agricultural_Branch_Railroad depiction Agricultural_Branch.JPG.
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