Major Cities: Portland, Boston, Montreal

Overview: With Boston as its hub, the Northern New England Corridor would serve destinations in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the Canadian province of Quebec. The corridor currently includes routes from Boston to (a) Portland, Maine; (b) Montreal, Canada; and (c) Albany, New York, via Springfield, Massachusetts, with an extension from Springfield to New Haven, Connecticut. Frequent passenger service currently links Boston with Portland, and New Haven with Springfield. Less-frequent service connects Boston with Springfield and Albany; there are no passenger trains today between Boston and Montreal. The States of New Hampshire and Maine have worked with the host Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Railroad) to upgrade the Boston - Portland line over which Amtrak's Downeaster operates. There have been some studies of the Boston–New Hampshire–Vermont–Montréal spoke.

Status: Modest upgrades to track in the Portland terminal are to be funded by an FY 2008 FRA capital grant to the State for intercity passenger rail investment.

Northern New England Corridor Contacts
Organization	Personal Contact	Topics
Vermont Agency of Transportation  Rail Division National Life Building - Drawer 33 Montpelier, VT 05633-5001	Charles Miller Director, Rail Division Tel: 802-828-5719 Fax: 802-828-2829 charlie.miller@state.vt.us	Passenger, freight and grade crossings.
Massachusetts DOT Executive Offices of Transportation  10 Park Plaza, Suite 3170 Boston, MA 02116	Sean Denniston   Tel: 617-973-7840 Fax: 617-973-8032 sean.denniston@eot.state.ma.us	Passenger, freight, and grade crossings.
New Hampshire DOT Administrator, Bureau of Railroads and Public Transportation P.O. Box 483 Concord, NH 03301-6900	Christopher (Kit) Morgan Administrator Tel: 603-271-2468 Fax: 603-271-6767 cmorgan@dot.state.nh.us	Passenger, freight, and grade crossings.