Chatham and Lebanon Valley Railroad
The Chatham and Lebanon Valley Railroad was a railway company based in Vermont and New York ( United States ). It was founded on March 28, 1852, initially as the Lebanon Springs Railroad .
The company wanted to extend the planned branch to Bennington of the Western Railroad by about 92 kilometers to Chatham (New York) . Construction began in 1852 and was discontinued in 1854 after it became apparent that the Western Railroad was struggling with financial problems. Work did not continue until the mid-1860s and the Bennington to Chatham line went into operation in 1869. It ran from Bennington via Petersburg , Berlin , Stephentown and Lebanon to Chatham, where there was a connection to the Boston and Albany Railroad . In Petersburg, the route crossed that of the Troy and Boston Railroad .
On January 1, 1870, the Lebanon Springs Railroad merged with the Bennington and Rutland Railway , the legal successor to the Western Railroad, to form the Harlem Extension Railroad . Bennington & Rutland resigned from this merger on September 10, 1877, and the Harlem Extension Railroad was renamed Lebanon Springs Railroad again in 1880. After the company went bankrupt on October 1, 1880, the New York, Rutland and Montréal Railroad , founded on December 31, 1883, bought the railroad on June 12, 1885. They intended to merge them with Bennington & Rutland, but this failed. On February 27, 1888, the railway company went bankrupt again and was set up again in 1893 as the Lebanon Springs Railroad . Finally, on October 19, 1899, it was reorganized into Chatham and Lebanon Valley Railroad .
The eventful history of the railway company ended on December 21, 1901, when the Rutland Railroad bought the railway. The line was operated in passenger traffic until around 1940, the scheduled freight traffic was discontinued in December 1952 and the line was closed on May 19, 1953.
Individual evidence
literature
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000. ISBN 0-942147-06-5
- Jim Shaughnessy: The Rutland Railroad. Howell-North Books, 1964.
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