Berlin Mills Railway
Berlin Mills Ry., Status 1999 |
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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
- ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1999.