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Winchesters Ghost Railroad
About this film
In 1875, fed-up with high shipping costs and shabby treatment from the Boston & Lowell Railroad, tannery owners in Winchester and Woburn Massachusetts banded together to promote and build a new railroad line from Wilmington to Somerville Massachusetts, calling it the Boston & Mystic Valley Railroad. Construction started in Woburn in the spring of 1878 but was never finished due to poor management, politics, and bad timing. Although the road was graded over its 14.5 mile length, tracks were never laid. Scars of this endeavor are still visible on the Winchester and Woburn landscapes, notably the northern section of the Woburn Loop and Winter Pond. The major players in this story are Charles Adams Jr., Stephen Dob, and Samuel Twombly.
Directors & creators
Peter G. Engeldrum
Subjects
Winchester, Massachusetts, Boston & Mystic Valley Railroad, Charles Francis Adams III, Stephen Dow, Samuel Twombly
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