Boston and Maine Railroad

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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) was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. Originally chartered in 1835, it 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 2,744 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 92 million passenger-miles.^[1]