Raymond Boston and Maine Railroad Depot
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Raymond Boston and Maine Railroad Depot, also known as the Raymond Historical Society, is a museum and former railway station located in Raymond
, New Hampshire
.
Raymond was a stop on the Boston and Maine Railroad
's Portsmouth Branch, now the Rockingham Recreational Trail.
The Raymond Historical Society restored the depot building and keeps a locomotive
, a boxcar, a caboose
, and a work car on display at the station. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1979.
Raymond, New Hampshire
Raymond is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 10,138 at the 2010 census. Part of Pawtuckaway State Park is in the north....
, New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
.
Raymond was a stop on the Boston and Maine Railroad
Boston and Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine Corporation , known as the Boston and Maine Railroad until 1964, was the dominant railroad of the northern New England region of the United States for a century...
's Portsmouth Branch, now the Rockingham Recreational Trail.
The Raymond Historical Society restored the depot building and keeps a locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
, a boxcar, a caboose
Caboose
A caboose is a manned North American rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.-Function:The caboose provided the...
, and a work car on display at the station. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1979.