Hudson and Boston Railroad Company

State: New York

In 1828, the New York State Legislature passed an act authorizing the construction of a railroad from Boston, Massachusetts to the Hudson River bank in Hudson, New York. For a time, this railroad was known as the Boston and Hudson River Railroad. By the fall of 1858, the portion constructed within Massachusetts became known as the Western Railroad, and the remaining portion—which had been called the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad for a time—became the Hudson and Boston Railroad.

“An Act to Facilitate the Construction of a Railroad, from the City of Boston, to the Hudson River,” 15 April 1828, Laws of the State of New-York (1828), 258-59; Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1859), 408-9.