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• The Great Midland Railroad. (J.B. Chisholm, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of the arguments of the Hon. Rufus Choate and Charles Theo. Russell, esq., for the petitioneers, on the petitions of David Pingree, and over 3,000 other legal voters, for a rail-road from Salem to Malden, before the Committee on railways and canals, of the Massachusetts legislature, session 1846. (From the Press of Hewes & Watson, 1846), by Rufus Choate, David Pingree, Charles Theodore Russell, Hewes & Watson's Print, and Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committees of the Boston and Worcester and Western Rail Road Corporations, on the subject of uniting the two rail roads. : Also, the report of a committee of the stockholders of the Boston and Worcester Rail Road, instructed to inquire into the pecuniary condition and property of the Boston and Worcester and Western Rail Roads ... (1846. Eastburn's press, 1846), by Josiah Quincy, Jonathan Chapman, Western Rail-Road Corporation, and Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Report of the Rapid transit commission to the Massachusetts legislature. April 5, 1892. ([Boston, 1892), by Massachusetts. Rapid Transit Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Boston & Oswego railroad convention. Held in Oswego, June 14th and 15th, 1871. (Advertiser and Times, 1871), by Oswego Boston and Oswego railroad convention (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission on commerce and industry (Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1908), by Massachusetts. Commission on commerce and industry, Augustus S. Cobb, Josiah F. Hill, Stephen Little, and Joseph B. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on early transportation in Massachusetts. A paper read before the Boston Society of civil engineers, November 18, 1884. (Atkin & Prout, printers, 1884), by George L. Vose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of an investigation into the subject of the gradual abolition of the crossing of highways by railroads at grade. (Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1889), by Augustus W. Locke, George A. Kimball, William O. Webber, and George A. Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. January, 1913. (Wright & Potter Print. Co., state printers, 1913), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on the Transportation Facilities of Western Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memoir of the Western railroad. (S. Bowles & company, printers, 1863), by George Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston railways : their condition and prospects. (Little, Brown, 1856), by E. B. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views suggested by the petitioners for the Chelsea Rail Road (printed by George Coolidge, 1846), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the directors of the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation ([Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation], in the 19th century), by Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. ([Boston], in the 19th century), by Fitchburg Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the surveys and definite location of the Eastern Rail Road ([Eastern Railroad Company], 1836), by Eastern Railroad Company and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoosac Tunnel 1865-1868. ((various publishers), 1865), by Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sundry reports & c. ((various publishers), 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee of investigation, to the stockholders : at an adjourned meeting of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad Company, March 20th, 1856. (Printed by C. Hamilton, 1856), by Worcester and Nashua Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worcester & Baldwinville surveys ([s.n.], 1846), by Samuel Ashburner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts railroads (Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, 1829), by Massachusetts. Directors of Internal Improvement, S. Willard, S. Willard, James Hayward, James Fowle Baldwin, Boston Daily Advertiser, and Annin & Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report relative to railroad service from Boston to Brockton and Cape Cod (The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Senate, 1974), by Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public safety and the interurban road vs. the railroad monopoly in Massachusetts (Printed by the University Press, 1905), by Howard Carlton Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Western railroad corporation, held, by adjournment, in the city of Boston, March 12, 1840, including the report of the committee of investigation appointed by the stockholders. (Dutton and Wentworth's print, 1840), by Western Rail-Road Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and figures concerning the Hoosac tunnel. (J. J. Piper, printer, 1866), by John J. Piper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts railroads. 1842 to 1855. (J.H. Eastburn's press, 1856), by W. H. Swift and William Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Hon. J.G. Abbott, before the Committee on railways and canals, February 18, 1864, on the petition of the Boston and Lowell railroad for a union with certain railroads in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. With the evidence for the petitioners. (Wright and Potter, printers, 1864), by Josiah Gardner Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument in favor of railway consolidation, upon a wider basis than that proposed by the Troy & Boston and Vermont & Massachusetts railroad companies, addressed to the Railway committee of the legislature of Massachusetts, Feb. 7, 1873 (Rand, Avery, & co., 1873), by E. H. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the practicability and expediency of establishing a rail road on one or more routes from Boston to the Connecticut River (William L. Lewis, printer ..., 1827), by Nathan Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board of commissioners : of internal improvement in relation to the examination of sundry routes for a railway from Boston to Providence. With a memoir of the survey. (Dutton & Wentworth, printers to the state, 1828), by Massachusetts. Board of Internal Improvements (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of the special railroad laws of Massachusetts [1826-1873]. (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1874), by Edward Lillie Pierce and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual reports of the railroad corporations in the state of Massachusetts. (Dutton and Wentworth, state printers [etc.], 1836), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railway system of Massachusetts. An address delivered before the Boston Board of Trade (Mudge & Son, city printers, 1866), by Josiah Quincy (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Miscellaneous documents on the railroads of Massachusetts] (1838), by Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act of incorporation, by-laws and officers of the Eastern rail road company. (Palfray and Chapman, printers, 1836), by Eastern Railroad Company and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospectus of the Lebanon Springs Rail-road. (J.F. Trow, printer, 1852), by Lebanon Springs Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Middlesex Canal : with remarks for the consideration of the proprietors (S. Dickinson, printer, 1843), by Caleb Eddy, Samuel N. Dickinson, Jeremiah Mason, Mass.) Middlesex Water Company (Middlesex, and Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (St. pr.), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Public Service Commission. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1913), by Massachusetts. Public Service Commission, Frederick Joseph Macleod, and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report [including railroad and street railway returns] of the Board of Railroad Commissioners (State Printers, 1869), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of the special rairoad laws of Massachusetts [1826-1873] (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1874), by Edward Lillie Pierce and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad and railway laws of Massachusetts. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1903), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board of commissioners, for the survey of one or more routes for a railway from Boston to Albany. (Dutton & Wentworth, printers to the state, 1828), by Massachusetts. Board of Commissioners for the Survey of One or More Routes for a Railway from Boston to Albany, James Fowle Baldwin, Samuel M. McKay, and Nahum Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years' working of the Massachusetts railroad commission : railroad commission laws of all the states that have commissions. (Railroad gazette, 1883), by Massachusetts. State railroad commission and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules of the association and instructions to agents : revised May 10, 1895. ([Boston, 1895), by Massachusetts and New Hampshire Car Service Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report, in Senate, March 15, 1833. ([Boston, 1833), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Standing Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Committee on railways to whom was committed the order of inquiry concerning the consolidation of the Boston and Albany railroad corporation with other corporations submit the following report: ... ([Boston, 1871), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of the arguments of the Hon. Rufus Choate and Charles Theo. Russell, esq., for the petitioneers, on the petitions of David Pingree, and over 3,000 other legal voters, for a rail-road from Salem to Malden, before the Committee on railways and canals, of the Massachusetts legislature, session 1846. (From the Press of Hewes & Watson, 1846), by Rufus Choate, David Pingree, Charles Theodore Russell, Hewes & Watson's Print, and Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Hoosac tunnel and Troy and Greenfield railroad (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1867), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of E. H. Derby, esq., before the Second railway committee of the legislature of Massachusetts, March, 1851. In favor of a railway from Palmer to Winchendon, via Ware, Barre, and Templeton. With report and statistics. (Printed by C.C.P. Moody, 1851), by E. H. Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commissioners upon the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, to his excellency the Governor, and the honorable the Executive Council of the State of Massachusetts : February 28, 1863 (Wright & Potter, 1863), by Massachusetts. Commissioners on Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, James Laurie, James Laurie, Benj. H. Latrobe, Charles S. Storrow, and J. W. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choate and Northend - Danvers to Malden R.R. (Printed by S.N. Dickinson and Company, 1847), by Rufus Choate and William Dummer Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad Commissioners' report (Wright & Potter, state printer, 1870), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of railroad rates. (A.C. Getchell, 1901), by Josiah H. Benton and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Hon. Daniel Webster, on behalf of the Boston & Lowell R.R. company : at a hearing on the petitions of William Livingston and others, and Hobart Clark and others, before the rail road committee of the Massachusetts legislature. Boston, January XX, MDCCCXLV (Dutton and Wentworth, 1845), by Daniel Webster and Nathan Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemplated plan of the Franklin rail road company : to commence with a route through the counties of Middlesex, Worcester and Franklin, to the line of Vermont; from thence to Lake Champlain and to Lake Ontario, with branches convenient to accommodate the inhabitants of Massachusetts. (Press of J.H. Eastburn, 1830), by Franklin Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report to the stockholders the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. (s.n.], in the 1850s), by Vermont and Massachusetts Rail Road Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts (s.n., 1851), by Massachusetts House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolition of grade crossings in Massachusetts (Little, Brown, and company, 1905), by Arthur W. Blakemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lease of the Boston & Albany R.R. to the New York Central R.R. hearing by the Committee on Railroads (s.n., 1900), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railroads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minority report of the Committee on Railways in relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the railroads leading thereto : with a bill to incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad : also the speech delivered by Hon. E. P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in support of the same. (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1873), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals and E. P. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. Jan. 1913. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1913), by Massachusetts. General Court. (1913) Joint Special Committee on the Transportation Facilities of Western Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of an address by Edward Crane, esq., on the subject of transportation, at the Green room, State House, February 13th, 14th, and 18th, 1868. (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1868), by Edward Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston & Maine railroad system ... (Rand Avery Supply Co., 1901), by Boston and Maine Railroad and Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws and resolves relating to railroads and street railways passed in the year 1896. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., State printers, 1896), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroads and street railways. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1899), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroads and street railways (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1897), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad laws of Massachusetts. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1898), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws and resolves relating to railroads and street railways passed in the year 1898. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., State printers, 1898), by Massachusetts and Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Draught of a bill to revise and consolidate into one act the provisions of the general statutes and subsequent general acts relating to railroads. (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1873), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners in relation to the accident on the Boston and Maine Railroad (Western division), near Bradford, January 10, 1888. (Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1888), by Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Western Rail-road Corporation, November 23, 1837. (Dutton and Wentworth, 1837), by Western Rail-Road Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troy and Greenfield Railroad : speech of Hon. William D. Swan, on the bill concerning the Troy and Greenfield Railroad : in the Senate of Massachusetts, April 16, 1862. (Wright & Potter, printers, 1862), by William D. Swan and Massachusetts Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement made before the Legislative Committee on Railroads : in relation to a consolidation of the Boston & Albany and Boston & Providence railroad corporations, and the removal of the Beach Street passenger station of the Boston & Albany Railroad (Franklin Press, Rand, Avery & Co., 1880), by Daniel Waldo Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report (Wright Potter printing co., state printers, 1913), by Massachusetts. Public Service Commission and Frederick Joseph Macleod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Returns of the railroad corporations in Massachusetts, 1857 [-1869] with abstracts of the same. (W. White, printer to the state, 1857), by Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State and Oliver Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Senate, February 24, 1829. Report of the commissioners appointed under the act of April 15, 1828, relative to the construction of a rail-road from the city of Boston to the Hudson River. (Printed by Edwin Croswell, 1829), by Ebenezer Baldwin, Seymour B. Durst, Edwin Croswell, George Tibbits, and Oliver Wiswall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Alvah Crocker, on the bill for the more speedy completion of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, in the Senate of Massachusetts, April 15, 1862 (Wright & Potter, 1862), by Alvah Crocker and Massachusetts Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railroad Company : report of the corporators, appointed under acts of 1874, chapter 403 ; January, 1875. (Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1875), by Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railroad Company Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of E.H. Derby, esq., in behalf of the Old Colony Rail-Road Company : at a hearing of the petition of John M. Forbes and others before the Rail-Road Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, Boston, April 7, 1848. (D. Clapp, printer, 1848), by E. H. Derby and Old Colony Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of facts respecting the New York and Boston or Air Line Railroad and its connections. August, 1864. (Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill., 1864), by New York and Boston Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston and Northwestern, Massachusetts Central, and Boston and Poughkeepsie Railroads (Franklin Press :, 1877), by Herbert F. Keith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hoosac Tunnel : our financial maelstrom (Wright & Potter, printers, 1866), by F. W. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument in favor of the proposed consolidation of the Western and Worcester railroad corporations, before the Committee on railways and canals, March 16th, 1864. (Press of G.C. Rand & Avery, 1864), by Peleg W. Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts State rail plan : phase II (The Office, 1975), by Massachusetts. Executive Office of Transportation and Construction and United States. Federal Railroad Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the committee for investigating the affairs of the Fall River Railroad Company, appointed by the stockholders, January 17, 1850. (Eastburn's Press, 1850), by Fall River Rail Road Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a committee of the directors of the Barre and Worcester railroad company : showing the estimated cost of the contemplated road, its sources of business, and advantages to the stockholders and public generally. (Patriot Book and Job Press, 1847), by Barre and Worcester Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act for defining the rights and duties of rail road corporations in certain cases. ([n.p., 1833), by Massachusetts. 1833 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad waltz (Boston : White, Smith & Perry, [1872], 1872), by L. E. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. ([Boston, 1849), by Massachusetts. General Court. 1849 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Application of the Salem and Lowell rail road company for a parallel and competing rail road from Salem to Danvers. Application of the South Reading branch rail road company for a right to use the Essex rail road. (J.M. Hewes & co., 1851), by Rufus Choate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and bill on the petition of the Seekonk branch rail-road company. ([Boston], 1838), by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate. Committee on Railways and Canals and Charles Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report of] an act in addition to an act to regulate the use of railroads. ([Boston], 1860), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Report of the Committee on railroads on matters relating to the Eastern railroad. April, 1876. (Boston, 1876), by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate. Committee on Railroads (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern minotaur (J.E. Farwell & Co., printers, 1868), by F. W. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the argument of George F. Farley, Esq. before the Second Committee on Railways and Canals, : in behalf of the petition of Henry H. Blanchard and others, for the removal of restrictions from the charters of the Boston & Maine, and the Salem & Lowell, Railroads. ... (Boston: : White & Potter, printers., 1851., 1851), by Boston and Maine Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of Hon. F.W. Bird, addressed to George H. Munroe, of Roxbury. ... : Extracts from the published speech of Hon. Wm. D. Swan ... Extracts from the conclusion of the report of the commissioners on the Troy and Greenfield R.R. and Hoosac Tunnel, made February 28, 1863. ([Boston, Massachusetts] : [publisher not identified], [1863], 1863), by F. W. Bird, William D. Swan, George H. Monroe, Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad, and Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of our minotaur. (Printed, not published, 1868), by active 1868 Theseus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deerfield River railroad ([Boston, 1818], 1818), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of the Hon. W.G. Bates, on the part of the remonstrants, against the petition of a charter of a rail road from the state line of Connecticut, to the village of Westfield, before the Committee on Rail Roads of the Legislature of Mass., February 1850. ([Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1850], 1850), by William G. Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testimony of G.R. Blanchard before the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy & Greenfield Railroad Committee : March 13, 1877. (Albert J. Wright, 1877), by George R. Blanchard, Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad, and Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter and by-laws of the Central Vermont Railroad Company. : 1874. (1874), by Central Vermont Railway Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Groton rail-road. (Publisher not identified, in the 1840s), by Groton and Nashua Rail Road (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marginal Railroad (Boston : Wright & Potter, 1867., 1867), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals, Harvey Scudder, Edward Crane, Thomas Russell, and Marginal Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Charles G. Loring, Esq. on behalf of the Eastern Rail-road Company at a hearing on the petitions of David Pingree and others, and W.J. Valentine and others, before the Rail-road Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, Boston, March 7, 1845. (Dutton and Wentworth, printers, 1845), by Charles G. Loring, Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals, and Eastern Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Hon. Charles Allen, before the Committee on Railways and Canals, in behalf of the petition of Joseph S. Cabot and others, for an independent railroad between Salem and Lowell (s.n.], 1848), by Charles Allen, Joseph S. Cabot, and Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public use of rail-roads (Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, state printers, 1838., 1838), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals, Charles Hudson, and Dutton and Wentworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demonstration project progress report (Boston, Mass. : The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mass Transportation Commission, [between 1963 and 1964?], 1963), by Massachusetts. Mass Transportation Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel, by John J. Piper (Gutenberg ebook)
• Minority Report of the Committee on Railways in Relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Railroads Leading Thereto: With a bill to incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; also the speech delivered by Hon. E. P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in support of the same, by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals, contrib. by E. P. Carpenter (Gutenberg ebook)

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