Nantucket Central Railroad Company

Nantucket Railroad

Overview
Headquarters	Siasconset
Locale	Massachusetts
Dates of operation	1881–1917
Successor	Abandoned
Technical
Track gauge	36
Length	9 miles (14 km)

The Nantucket Railroad was a 36 narrow gauge railroad on the island of Nantucket. The railroad linked the village of Nantucket with the village of Siasconset. Built in 1881, the line closed in 1917, with the track and rolling stock sent to France as part of the Allied forces of the First World War. Years after the railroad was discotinued, the last railroad car left on the island was converted to a popular restaurant.

Locomotives

Number	Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
	Dionis	Baldwin Locomotive Works	4-4-0 tender			Originally built for the Danville, Olney and Ohio River Railroad; scrapped 1901
	Sconset	Mason Machine Works	0-4-4			Purchased from Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad 1888
1		Hinkley Locomotive Works	4-4-0 tender			Originally built 1879 for the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad; purchased 1901
2		Alco	2-4-4	1910		Sent to the Allied Expeditionary Force, Bordeaux, France in 1917
	Siasconset	Fairbanks-Morse Company	4wPM	1907		Early gasoline-powered railcar capable of carrying ten passengers

References

• Eldredge, Andrew T (2003). Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1157-9.
• Stanley, Robert C. (1980) Narrow Gauge - The Story of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Street Railway Association.

External links

• "The Nantucket Railroad", by Peter Schmid. Originally published by the Nantucket Historical Association in the Summer 2000 issue of Historic Nantucket.