Suffolk Railroad

The Suffolk Railroad was a street railway company that operated in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-nineteenth century.

[2] The company was mainly focused towards building and operating routes running in East Boston and the city mainland, using the ferries operating across Boston Harbor to transport their cars between the two areas.

[3] The railroad was initially authorized to lay track in East Boston from the ferry wharves to Maverick Square and hence to the bridges leading to Chelsea.

[4] Subsequent location grants permitted service to the Northern Depots and parts of the West End, as well as down Washington and Tremont Streets as far as Boylston Street and the Boston & Providence Depot at Park Square.

[6][7] In its final full year of operations, it had run 113,046 miles and carried 557,083 passengers.

"Skeleton plan, showing location of the Suffolk & Metropolitan rail road routes in [mainland] Boston," 1862. The Suffolk was proposing here to expand its reach to Charlestown and the South End , using the tracks of the Metropolitan for the latter