Berlin Mills Railway

Berlin Mills Ry., Status 1999

Legend Route from Portland (see GT ) 0.0 Cascade Switch NH Route to Montreal (see GT) Connection to the Cascade Mill today's end of the route Bridge over the Androscoggin River former Whitefield – Berlin line (ex W&J , later B&M ) former connecting track to B&M Berlin NH B&M station former line of B&M (Start of the short joint piece) Connection to the Burgess Mill Connection stupid yard Berlin NH Main Yard Connection Berlin Yard (see B&M) Bridge over the Androscoggin River Connection River Yard Route from Montreal (see GT) 6.04 Berlin NH GT station Route to Portland (see GT)

The Berlin Mills Railway (BMS) is a former railway company in New Hampshire ( United States ). It was founded in 1911 as a subsidiary of the Brown Company , one of the largest wood processing companies in Berlin (New Hampshire) . They built a six-kilometer, standard-gauge line that was to connect a paper mill in Berlin and one in Cascade south of the city and at the same time created a track connection between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Boston and Maine Railroad . With Boston & Maine there was an approximately 1.5 kilometer long jointly operated line from north of Berlin train station to the Berlin Yard junction.

After the closure of the former Boston & Maine line, the central part of the BMS was also decommissioned in the 1990s and the rest was handed over to the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad , which took over the Grand Trunk Railway and which today ensures the connection of the two paper mills. The BMS was then dissolved.

Web links

• further information from nhrra.org (PDF) (1.46 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1999.