The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ntage in keeping the place a terminus of therailway, and so at first opposed the extension, but without effect, andthe year 1839 witnessed the opening of the western railroad to Spring-field. Two years later the road to Albany was completed. The tw^ocorporations, though in reality sections of one system, were nominallyseparate concerns, and were operated as such until 1867, when a con-solidation was effected under the name of the Boston & Albany Rail-road Company, which is now one of the largest and most successfulcorporati
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ntage in keeping the place a terminus of therailway, and so at first opposed the extension, but without effect, andthe year 1839 witnessed the opening of the western railroad to Spring-field. Two years later the road to Albany was completed. The tw^ocorporations, though in reality sections of one system, were nominallyseparate concerns, and were operated as such until 1867, when a con-solidation was effected under the name of the Boston & Albany Rail-road Company, which is now one of the largest and most successfulcorporations in the country. It is the most important route throughNew England to the West, the New York Central being virtuallyacontinuation of this line, affording direct communication with Chicagoand the Pacific. It controls a total length of miles of railroad is equipped with 242 locomotives; 247 passenger cars;60 baggage, mail and express; freight (box. 3,434; stock, 29; coal,1,528; flat, 802), 5,798; caboose, 80; other, 449; making a total of 6,693. The Worcester of 1898. 391 cars of all descriptions. The total assets of the company as given inthe last report of the Railroad Commissioners are $36,518, The next railroad out of Worcester to be constructed was the Nor-wich, running south fifty-eight miles. This route became very popular,as being the most direct to New York city, connecting with the Soundboats at New London. The Norwich & Worcester railroad was leasedin 1869 by the New York & New England Company for a period ofninety-nine years. It is now a part of the New York, New Haven &Hartford system, which had previously obtained control of the Provi-dence & Worcester road. The Providence & Worcester railroad was opened in 1847, entirelysuperseding the old Blackstone canal, which had been constructedtwenty years previously, and which had promised so much in thebeginning. Over fifty miles of track are now used on this 1888 the road was leased by
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