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It's a maintenance of way yard used mostly for staging tie and spot rail replacement jobs. No GE use...they haven't gotten rail deliveries in 30 years. Basically one siding (which several lines have) with some extra slack space for staging materials, so it's not a 'major' yard by any sense.Hi folks, I was looking at aerials of the Eastern Route through Lynn. Does anybody know how the T uses the small rail yard located just north of the GE plant? Here is a photo of the site I'm talking about. It looks like at one point it may have been half of a wye to the Saugus branch, but the grade actually seems like that may not have worked. Has it always been a yard? Is it used for deliveries to GE, or just storing equipment? I was kind of surprised that in the aerial, it has multiple rail cars on a siding, including tank cars. But it's not listed as a T yard here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_Bay_Transportation_Authority_yards#
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The tank cars on Google look like they're from the leaf wash train, so that was probably an offseason storage spot for them.