History

New Hampshire Sentinel June 03, 1885 - As the car inspector was making the customary examination of the wheels and tracks upon the night express train from Boston, last Saturday night, he found the mangled body of a man under the wheels of a passenger car near the middle of the station and upon the South side of the train.  Examination proved the body to be that of one Eli J.

New Hampshire Sentinel - December 23, 1847 – The Cheshire Railroad, we learn from the President, will be opened to Troy, within nine miles of this town on Monday next, the 27th.  Troy is eighty-two miles from Boston and thirty-two from Fitchburg.  The opening thus far, will be hailed with pleasure, as the public have long been waiting the accommodations and facilities which it will give them.  The delay has enabled the engineers

By Wayne Gagnon - The Cheshire Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad was one of several Fitchburg division branch lines that served both the population, farms, quarries and industries located in the Monadnock region. This line branched off the westbound main line from Boston to Mechanicville and Troy, NY. at Gardner, Mass by going through the towns of Winchendon, Mass., Fitzwilliam, NH., Troy, NH., Keene, NH and on to the North Walpole, NH/Bellows Fall, Vt.

The Troy Cheshire Railroad Depot complex is recorded in the United States Department of Interior National Parks Service National Register of Historic Places as a vital part of the Town of Troy's Historical District. 

OMB Approval No. 1024-0018  Section 7 Pages 94&95.

145.   11 Depot, Troy Railroad Depot, ca. 1847. Contributing 
 building.

FREIGHTS WRECKED
HEAD COLLISION OF TWO HEAVY TRAINS NEAR TROY.
Engineers and Firemen Jump for Their Lives – One Brakeman Slightly Injured –
Two Locomotives and Ten Cars Smashed to Pieces – The Blockade Cleared Away

March 21, 1865:  Learning that Mr. Asa C. Dort, of Troy, N.H
Could furnish particulars of the railroad wreck which occurred
March 21, 1865 at Westport, N. H., and pictured in the Repertory
for December 1924, we asked Mr. Dort to send us the details;

Troy, N.H., Feb. 10, 1925.
“Replying to yours of the 7th, will say that the moment I put my
eye on the picture of the wreck on the Ashuelot Road, I recognized
it as the one I was in.”
“I left Washington, D. C., about March 19th or 20th, 1865, on a ten

July 17, 1897: - Milan H. Curtis, of Bellows Falls, engineer of Train No. 246
East killed at Pemberton’s Crossing at West Keene when the train drawn by
two engines was derailed, being crushed under the tender of his engine. 
His fireman, Lewis Eddy of the head engine received minor injuries. 
Charles Hagar of Boston, engineer of the second engine jumped when he
saw the forward locomotive going over and was picked up unconscious;
his fireman, H. F. McLeland, escaped with scalp wounds. 

October 21, 1876

“The Cheshire Locomotive “Bellows Falls.” Henry Graves, engineer, while running “wild” at great speed towards East Westmoreland, collided with the down freight near the Summit.  Graves and his fireman escaped serious injuries, but the engineer and fireman of the freight, Henry M. Staples and Lewis Phillips, were killed.  Mr. Phillips instantly.

The Monadnock Breeze Newspaper

1907/12/21 [ed.]: “A searching investigation should be made by the proper authorities into the causes of the wreck at Troy last Monday.  
        The story of brakes that did not work and slippery rails, will not satisfy the public in the face of the facts as stated by the Engineer of the Flyer.