Mountain Division - Beecher Falls Branch

Beecher Falls Branch

The Dominion Lime Company built a railroad in 1887 from the Quebec Central Railway at Dudswell Junction to Lime Ridge, Quebec. In 1888, the Upper Coos Railroad built a railroad north to the Quebec border from the Grand Trunk Railway at North Stratford, New Hampshire. In 1889, William Bullock Ives' Hereford Railway purchased the Dominion Lime Company railroad and extended it south to connect with the Upper Coos Railroad. Maine Central Railroad leased the Upper Coos Railroad and the Hereford Railway in 1890 and built a connecting Coos Valley Railroad in 1891 from North Stratford to the Mountain Division at Quebec Junction. This line was operated as the Maine Central Railroad Quebec Division until Maine Central terminated lease of the Hereford Railway in 1925. Canadian Pacific Railway later operated over some of this abandoned line through Quebec. The Upper Coos Railroad and Coos Valley Railroad were purchased by the Maine Central Railroad in 1931 and operated as the Beecher Falls branch of the Mountain Division. The former Coos Valley Railroad was dismantled in 1948 when Maine Central negotiated trackage rights over the Boston and Maine Railroad to Groveton, New Hampshire and over the former Grand Trunk Berlin Subdivision from Groveton to North Stratford. The remaining line north of North Stratford operated as the North Stratford Railroad after 1976.

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