Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad

Nashua, Acton & Boston Railroad was a railroad between Nashua and Concord with commuter connections to Boston

History

Operation and downfall

In the mid-to late-1800s, question among railroads to finish the prospering business reason for joining of Boston was enraged. This different contender was created in 1876. They amassed a rail line between Nashua, NH and Acton, MA, at which a leauge with the Framingham and Lowell Railroad was made. The NA&B thought about Chapter 11 liquidation in the mid 1900s and was balanced as the Nashua and Acton Railroad in 1907 and was acquired by the Boston and Maine Railroad.

Demise

By claim in 1925, the line was abandoned; and in 1926, the sole remnant was in Nashua. The rails were left in Nashua until 1980, being utilized as a mechanical inclination, until they too were taken up.

Accidents

On a foggy December 1, 1899, Boston and Maine mixed railroad carriage No. 161 extra Nashua early night for Concord Junction in Massachusetts. The get ready had beginning late stopped at Otterson Street station in Nashua, dropping off a couple of voyagers. The plan then proceeded with plainly, to a "know-nothing" stop in a general sense past Sandy Pond where a truly respectable minimization part starts as the rail line go near Salmon Brook. Correctly when the originator stopped the get ready, taking following a moment he felt the get ready buck, finding that a broad bit of his get ready had segregated at near the station and that it had moved wholeheartedly behind the get ready. Definitely when the second half got up to speed to the straggling stays of the set up, the impact threw the brakeman off of a flatcar onto the tracks. The flatcar, by and large stacked, snapped from the drive of the impact and the cargo auto behind it rode up onto the flatcar. The brakeman was continue running over and beat to death. The elucidation behind the disaster was shown an alliance and stick drawbar being part when the get ready started up on a Delaware and Hudson Railroad compartment auto stacked with coal.