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According to Robert Dale Kerr's excellent book "The Rail Lines of Southern New England" The Chelsea Beach Branch opened in 1881. Was operated only in summer months for beach crowds. It formed a loop paralleling the main line with the northern junction at the Revere/Saugus line (Saugus River Jct)...

Sort of bittersweet for me. A lot of us were wondering why they stuck around for as long as they did. Maybe it was for two of their "legacy" employees to retire ( done in 2022/23) or to see if Mass Coastal made a go it. If it weren't for BCLR, there would've been a lot less trackage in S.E...

I've often wondered why the extension/reactivation to Gold Medal has yet to happen? What becomes of the IRAP money allocated for it? MDOT ran a brush cutter down there when it was announced, but nothing since. Wonder how powerful the marina/condo people are (since they got their backs up when...

Southcoast Rail Update....From Southcoast Today this morning: Commuter rail riders who were expecting a smooth ride to Boston sometime this year have to wait a little longer at the platform. The latest timetable for passenger service on South Coast Rail from Fall River and New Bedford is now...

A friend sent this screenshot of the latest volley against the Falmouth Branch. The ad was a half page, I think from the Bourne Enterprise.

Off Facebook...You can see how bold the bike path group is getting... Ben Converse discussion on Facebook Our notorious friend, Kenneth Cheitlin, is making some serious moves and getting community support to remove more rail mileage on Cape Cod. He has support from local elected officials as...

Bennett Street Yard - Strictly a MW base. And yes, those are some of the wash train cars.

Looks like there will be no reason for BO-1 or any freight to go east of Everett Jct soon... https://www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-at-end-of-2023/article_b8590e12-b876-11ed-abc5-6b5afd66e550.html

Of course they do...

That's mainly due to the sharp curve into the station and the fact your entering the station and not going any further east. You are not going to get anything better than an "Approach" once you get close to the wye connection. I don't know the actual timetable speeds for this area or the...

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.