by TomNelligan
This past week a contractor began dismantling the last of the two wood pile trestles that once carried the abandoned B&M Bemis (nee Watertown) Branch over the Charles River in Waltham. The one behind Waltham Tower and the Charles River Museum of Industry was torn down a few years ago, and now the one behind the River Street Shaw's Market is meeting the same fate. I shot the attached photo one evening in June 1984 as BO-1 was heading back to the mainline after switching the cold storage warehouse that was the last customer on the branch; this was a rare visit of a B&M GP40-2 to this location. Hard to believe it's been 32 years. The line was officially abandoned in 1991 and the rails were torn up a few years later. The soon-to-be-ex-trestle is now paralleled by a footbridge that carries the Riverwalk recreational path.
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