The Eastern Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. Throughout its history, it competed with the Boston and Maine Railroad for service between the two cities, unti
Eastern Railroad Depot, Causeway Street, Boston, in 1883
Eastern Railroad locomotive #53, operated by the Boston & Maine as the Nahant, at Wenham in January 1892
Woodcut of the Revere station, made shortly after the 1871 accident
MBTA train on the Eastern Route in 2022
The Boston and Maine Railroad was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It was chartered in 1835, and became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983, most of which was purchase
Eastern Railroad
…The Eastern Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. Throughout its history, it competed with the Boston and Maine Railroad for service between the two cities, until the Boston & Maine put an end to the competition by leasing the Eastern in December 1884. Much of the railroad's…
Woodburytype of 0-4-0 Achilles, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1871
Locomotive emerging from Salem station on the Eastern line, c. 1910}
Boston and Maine depot in Boston, circa 19th century
B&M station in Wells, Maine, c. 1910.