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Title: History of the Old Colony Railroad : a complete history of the Old Colony Railroad from 1844 to the present time in two parts
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Old Colony Railroad Company Industries Railroads
Publisher: Boston : Hager & Handy
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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periment of using steel rails of greater length than usual overbridges, and at the crossing of highways at grade, proved successful.These rails, sixty feet in length, were rolled at the Edgar ThompsonSteel Works, near Pittsburg, Pa. The first lot purchased, consist-ing of twelve rails, were laid in 1876; the second lot of fifty were 110 HISTORY OF THE laid in the spring of 1878, and a third lot was purchased in the fall,making about 1,100 tons in all. Two miles of new side tracks werelaid; a substantial iron bridge built over Granite street, Quincy, inplace of a wooden one; five overhead bridges and one track bridgewere rebuilt, and substantial guard-rails were placed upon nearly allthese structures ; a new passenger station of brick, and a new freightstation of wood were erected at Sandwich ; new wooden stationswere built at South Hanson, South Middleborough, Assonet andMonument, and a large wooden car house at Fall River ; also a largeaddition to the passenger station at Bowenville.
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IpUR^TW OLD COLONY RAILROAD. I I I CHAPTER XII. IN 1879 tne Old Colony Railroad Company leased the Boston,Clinton, Fitchburg & New Bedford Railroad, running fromNew Bedford to Fitchburg, with a branch to South Framing-ham and Lowell, and another from Pratts Junction to SterlingJunction. This line owned a branch running from Fairhaven toTremont, connecting with the Cape Cod Railroad; the New Bed-ford Railroad, from the latter city to Taunton; the Taunton Branch,from Taunton to Mansfield and Attleborough; from Mansfield toSouth Framingham, and from South Framingham to Lowell ; theAgricultural Branch, from Framingham to Northboro ; the Fitch-burg & Worcester, from Fitchburg to Sterling Junction. Thearticles of this lease were as follows : — This indenture, dated this 31st day of January, in the year ofour Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, by andbetween the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg & New Bedford RailroadCompany, a corporation existing under and by virtue of

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