Fall River Line Oil on Canvas, Operating from 1847 to 1937, depicting the Fall River Steamship in New York Harbor, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance, legend at base Fall River Line, sans frame. From 1847 to 1937, the Fall River Line served ordinary travelers and Presidents alike – including Fillmore, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. As J. W. Reardon of the Boston Daily Advertiser put it: if you went on a trip to New York and did not travel on the Fall River Line, you simply did not go at all.

Six days a week for almost a century, hundreds of Bostonians would board the direct-service train from Boston to Fall River – a connection that will be restored by the South Coast Rail project. They would then step off the train and immediately board the gangplank onto the massive ship awaiting them.

21.5 in. x 25.75 in.