Nantucket Central Railroad

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Nantucket Central Railroad
Locomotive No. 2 at Nantucket Harbor
Locomotive No. 2 at Nantucket Harbor
Route of the Nantucket Central Railroad
Route
Route length: 14 km
Gauge : 914 mm ( English 3-foot track )
Legend
   
 0 Siasconset 41 ° 15 ′ 44 ″ N, 69 ° 57 ′ 50 ″ W.
   
 14th Nantucket 41 ° 17 ′ 9 ″ N, 70 ° 5 ′ 51 ″ W.

The Nantucket Central Railroad Company in Siasconset built and operated 1881-1917 a 14 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 3 feet (914 mm) on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts .

The Bug (Beetle) railcar and its Bird Cage luggage sidecar Sconset train station
The railcar bug ( beetle ) and his luggage Sidecar Birdcage ( Birdcage )
Sconset train station

Route

The route connected Siasconset with the city of Nantucket. It was built and commissioned in 1881 and shut down in 1917 when the rail vehicles were shipped to France during the First World War . Many years after the shutdown, a railroad car that remained on the island was converted into a popular restaurant.

Originally the railway company was called Nantucket Railroad , but a bankruptcy in 1895 necessitated a rebranding under the new name it carried until 1917.

Locomotives

number Surname Manufacturer Wheel alignment Construction year Serial number Remarks
Dionis Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0T Originally built for the Danville, Olney and Ohio River Railroad ; Scrapped in 1901
Sconset Mason Machine Works 0-4-4 Acquired in 1888 by Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
1 Hinkley Locomotive Works 4-4-0T Originally built in 1879 for the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad; Acquired in 1901.
2 Alco 2-4-4 1910 Shipped in 1917 for to the Allied Expeditionary Force, Bordeaux, France
Siasconset Fairbanks-Morse Company 4wPM 1907 Light petrol railcar for 10 passengers

Web links

Commons : Nantucket Central Railroad Company  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

literature

  • Eldredge, Andrew T: Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands . Arcadia Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7385-1157-9 .
  • Stanley, Robert C. (1980) Narrow Gauge - The Story of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Street Railway Association.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Schmid: The Nantucket Railroad . Nantucket Historical Association. 2000. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  2. ^ A b Robert C. Stanley: Narrow Gauge - The Story of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad Boston Street Railway Association 1980, pp. 111-112

Coordinates: 41 ° 17 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 70 ° 5 ′ 51 ″  W.