MILL TALK: The Railroads of Waltham: An Industrial City on the Move

Name: MILL TALK: The Railroads of Waltham: An Industrial City on the Move
Start: 2024-11-20T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-20T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation

Schedule

Wed Nov 20 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation | Waltham, MA

Mill Talk: "The Railroads of Waltham: An Industrial City on the Move”
November 20 7PM
FREE to the public
REGISTRATION REQUIRED https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mill-talk-the-railroads-of-waltham-an-industrial-city-on-the-move-tickets-1030070728277
presented by Rick Kfoury
Join the Charles River Museum for a journey back to Waltham’s railroad heyday, when the advent of the railroad was deeply entwined in the industrial history of the region, and the Boston Manufacturing Company specifically.

Rick Kfoury is a railroad historian and author with an express interest in New England railroading in the second half of the twentieth century. He has authored four books on the subject, The New England Southern Railroad Volumes I and II, Queen City Rails: Manchester's Railroads 1965-1990, and Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story.
A 2018 graduate of the Keene State College history program, Rick currently serves as President and Newsletter Editor for the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society and is employed in college admissions for Southern New Hampshire University.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization composed of people who want to share their knowledge, and learn more about, the history and operations of the Boston and Maine Railroad, its predecessors, and successors. The Society was founded in 1971 and consists of over 1,000 active members from the New England region and beyond.
Mill Talks at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation are free and open to the public and are made possible by the generous support of the Lowell Institute.