page_title: Boston and Maine Corporation
section_title: Northern
hierarchical_section_title: Boston and Maine Corporation / History / Acquisitions / Northern
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard picture of Boston &amp; Maine Railroad yards in Keene, New Hampshire.
context_page_description: The Boston and Maine Corporation, known as the Boston and Maine Railroad, was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It became part of what is now the Pan Am Railways network in 1983.
  At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route-miles on 2,481 miles of track, not including Springfield Terminal. That year it reported 2,744 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 92 million passenger-miles.
context_section_description: The Northern Railroad was leased to the Boston and Lowell in 1884, but that lease was cancelled and the Northern was on its own until 1890, when it was released to the B&L, then part of the B&M. The Northern owned a number of lines running west from Concord.
caption: Boston and Maine railroad yard, Keene, New Hampshire, about 1916
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