Success Pond Railroad
Blanchard & Twichell Co.
Berlin
Coos County, NH
1893-1904
Standard Gauge 26 miles
A railroad was built by Blanchard and Twitchell Company in 1892 from the Boston and Maine Railroad in Berlin, New Hampshire, through the aboriginal forests to Success Pond in the northeast corner of the township. Six locomotives transported lumber and logs to Berlin sawmills over the 26-mile (42 km) railway. Most of the Success township forests were gone within a decade, but the railway operated after 1904 as the George W. Blanchard and Sons Company Railroad. Boston and Maine kept 1,600 feet (490 m) of interchange track in service when the remainder of the railroad was dismantled in 1907.
