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It doesn't help that one portion of double track is used as a staging yard for the EB&S (Auto facility in Spencer/East Brookfield). While Conrail added a new interlocking at CP60, they effectively single tracked CP60 to E. Brookfield to accommodate the EB&S rack traffic.

There are two coaches in NH like paint here. These two coaches were used in an unknown film at the old Weymouth Naval Air Base site. They are the 646 & 1621 and were in storage at Area 52 (i.e. Rochester) for a long time. On July 10th, an extra took them from Middleboro to Abington (MW...

The track the 1070 is on is the Wabtec/Erie Test Track and not part of the parallel NS & CSX mainlines. Wabtec uses various units to test new rebuilds, new units.

And their last claim to fame was a brief cameo in the Bed Affleck film "The Town"!

They moved on Easter Sunday 4/19/03 to Somerville, Ma. on shop trucks. As far as I know, they were already up in Billerica on those trucks. The RDC's also moved under a FRA waiver, using loaded ballast hoppers and runaround air hoses for the move to BET. Plans were to convert both cars to crew...

The Western Route mainline is single track between Reading Jct (Sullivan Square) and Fells Interlocking (Oak Grove). East of Fells is still "251" (or current of traffic) signals. As stated, there are only a few crossovers between there and Reading (Melrose and Wakefield Jct). All hand-throw...

Another Brickbottom in the making. Wonder how long the complaints over CSX freight moves all times of the day and night will start.

FYI - The Grand Jct was conveyed to the MBTA effective 12:01PM June 17, 2010. At the time, Beacon Park Yard was still under the control of a CSX Yardmaster there (part time). When there was no yardmaster physically there, it's control went to the Worcester Yardmaster. At some point that went...

F-Line is correct. The facility is jokingly referred to by local railfans as "Area 52". Located just south of the SEMASS Energy Plant in Rochester. They do warranty and acceptance testing. All returning F40's coming back from rebuild to go here first. In fact, the 1058 just arrived this morning...

To each his own I guess. Never saw myself living anywhere in the Boston metro-area, even from Bridgewater in. Too crowded, too congested.

Hopefully the pedestrian bridge will NOT be attached to any of the drawbridges at Tower A. This would be pure folly especially during peak boating periods.

Yep...I commuted from Dartmouth to Somerville for three decades. Always left a spare 30 minutes to absorb backups and other mayhem on Route 24, 128 and the X-way. WBZ's "Traffic On The Three's" was my friend. Thought nothing of going up 128 to the Pike and coming into Boston that way if I heard...

Yes.

10mph...Did receive some desperately needed track work a couple of years ago.

Here is F-Line's commentary posted long ago on Railroad.Net. Yeah. Nobody...absolutely nobody...tries to build a transit line arse-end first. The single most important thing before they even consider giving money to the cities is: "How you gonna get there from Boston?" And that from Day 1...

I saved F-Line's screed somewhere. If I find it, I wonder if its okay to repost here? Was on Railroad.Net.

This is the former Harris Rebar site. Railfans have refered to the place as "Area 52".

Those are guardrails used on bridges. In case of a derailment, they in theory, will keep equipment in line.

Well aware of the crossing issues in Ayer, though I don't live there. The crossing issue in Framingham involves commuter rail traffic, not so much freight. Most of the freight comes in from the west into Nevens/North Yard. One or two or three freights crossing Rt 135 to Southeast Massachusetts...

Except restoring the connection at Clinton means coming out of Worcester. Worcester, at least on the CSX, is no longer equipped to handle manifest freight. Also, I fail to see the hardship of crossing Route 9 once or twice a day. The problem with the CP Yard is that you still have to shove out...