Northern Rail Trail (New Hampshire)

The Boston-based investors were one of three groups in a race to connect with a line coming up the Connecticut River valley, and thus on to Quebec.

The Shakers had worked a deal with the railroad to relocate its proposed corridor to the opposite side of Mascoma Lake from their colony, while getting a bridge to its depot.

Trains ran from Boston to White River Junction with continuing service north into Canada, via the Central Vermont Railway to Montreal, and the B&M to Newport, Vermont from where Quebec Central Railway trains would go to Sherbrooke and ultimately Quebec City.

Several years later the State acquired the last two miles to White River Junction, to include the large Westboro Yard.

In 2010 a major surfacing project between Potter Place depot and the Danbury town garage connected the two counties, creating the longest rail trail in New Hampshire.