Boston and Maine Railroad
Routes of the Boston and Maine Railroad | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Reporting mark | BM |
| Locale | Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Vermont |
| Dates of operation | 1836–1983 |
| Successor | Pan Am Railways |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 2,077 mi (3,343 km) |
The Boston and Maine Railroad (reporting mark BM; commonly known as Boston & Maine, abbreviated B&M) was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It was chartered in 1835, and became part of what was the Pan Am Railways network in 1983, most of which was purchased by CSX in 2022.
At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route-miles (2,438 km) on 2,481 miles (3,993 km) of track, not including Springfield Terminal. That year, it reported 2,774 million ton-miles (4,464 million kilometres) of revenue freight and 92 million passenger-miles (148 million kilometres).