Upper Coos Railroad is a former railway company registered in both New Hampshire and Vermont (United States). It was founded on 28 August 1883 in New Hampshire and in October 1884 in Vermont, and built a normal-gauge route from Quebec Junction to the border to Canada at Beecher Falls. The 89-kilometer-long railway line was completed between 1888 and 1891 and ran along the Connecticut River, which forms the border between the two states of New Hampshire and Vermont. The 19.8-kilometer stretch in Vermont, between the two bridges across the Connecticut River near Guildhall and Brunswick, was the Coos Valley Railroad, founded on 14 November 1882, but was operated from the outset by the Upper Coos. The Upper Coos Railroad in Vermont belonged only to the approximately 2.5 kilometer section from the river bridge at West Stewartstown to the Canadian border at Beecher Falls.
On May 1, 1890, the Maine Central Railroad (MEC) leased the Upper Coos Railroad for 999 years. At the same time, the Upper Coos Railroad in New Hampshire leased its sister company of the same name in Vermont as well as the Coos Valley Railroad. In January 1932 the final merger of the MEC with the two companies took place. Today only the sections Waumbek Junction-Coos Junction and North Stratford-Columbia Bridge are in operation. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext
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