sentences:  When the line was active the tracks extended over the Chicopee River, into Ludlow, Massachusetts, and on to Athol.The Athol and Enfield Railroad and the Springfield and North-Eastern Railroad were chartered in 1869, and succeeded by the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern Railroad in 1872, opening in 1873 as a branch from Athol Junction in Springfield to the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad in Athol.The B&A bought the line in 1880.