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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
cluded in this report. We base this conclusion upon the statements of the foregoing petition and the date of commissioners' view of location, as compared with the time of running the first trains. Who knows when that eleven-ton engine, built at Lowell, with two cars first traversed the branch? Inquiry among the oldest residents of Medford has so far been unavailing. The documentary evidence available is this: up to and including March 1, 1847, the Boston and Maine Railroad advertisement in tanal along the Mystic marshes of Charlestown and Medford, but for the last ten of the fifty the competition of the Boston and Lowell Railroad had been disastrous to the water-way. The charter of the latter railroad allowed no other railroad into Lowell for forty years, but there was no hindrance toward Boston. The canal embankments could be used as a road-bed for the Medford Branch, and the cut through the ledgy shoulder of Winter hill in the corner of Medford and Charlestown was already made.