Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad

[1]: 427 On March 5, 1883, the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad was outright consolidated into the Old Colony network.

[2]: 328, 330 By the 1960s, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, like many railroads, was struggling to stay solvent in the face of increased competition from alternate modes of transportation, and so in 1961 it petitioned to be included in the newly formed Penn Central Transportation Company.

On August 22, 1998, the Surface Transportation Board approved the buyout of Conrail by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with the former assuming control of the former Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad network.

The entirety of the former Framingham and Lowell Railroad line has also been abandoned, and is currently in various stages of being converted into Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.

[5] Some of the goods CSX hauls along the line include lumber, corn syrup, scrap metal, and plastic pellets.

Share of the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Company, issued 1. June 1876
An arm of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad over Foss Reservoir in Framingham
The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail in South Chelmsford, on the line once occupied by the Framingham and Lowell Railroad