In my quest to map former railways of New England, there are two things which can seriously obscure a route: development and dams
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The former I run into periodically--for instance, part of a line from Newton MA to Woonsocket RI is erased w/o a trace near Bellingham...
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...by suburban development. Another is the line from Alton to Lakeport in NH; virtually the entire line is replaced w lakefront houses
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Occasionally it's roads, rather than houses, that replace old railways--I've found this frequently in Maine and NH
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But that makes it pretty easy to tell where the railway used to go--unlike when it gets built over with houses.
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Dams are the worst obstacles to mapping--I can usually find where the line approaches the dam (on one side) and the lake (on the other)...
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...but in between, there's nothing to see except the water's surface. I've run into this in every New England state besides Rhode Island.
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This is preventing me from finishing several lines in backwoods Maine, one line in NH, two in VT, one in MA, and the Litchfield Line in CT
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This is excluding the former Athol Line in MA, which ran underneath what is now the Quabbin Reservoir...
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...which I have mapped the southern part of, from Springfield to the edge of the lake. The northern part, from Athol to the shore...
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...I have decided to ignore. The other line in MA--in Monroe, continuing to Readsboro VT--I have more or less written off as well.
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