by NashuaActon&Boston
I know the answer is posted up here somewhere but does anyone know offhand when the section between Leominster and Fitchburg was taken OOS? My guess would be early 1990s, likely even before?
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NashuaActon&Boston wrote:I know the answer is posted up here somewhere but does anyone know offhand when the section between Leominster and Fitchburg was taken OOS? My guess would be early 1990s, likely even before?Pre-1990, but not by much. 1988, perhaps?
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:NashuaActon&Boston wrote:I know the answer is posted up here somewhere but does anyone know offhand when the section between Leominster and Fitchburg was taken OOS? My guess would be early 1990s, likely even before?Pre-1990, but not by much. 1988, perhaps?
Clo131 wrote:Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place, but does anyone know how often, and roughly at what times, the freight trains run through Sherborn on the Framingham Secondary line? I'm looking at buying a house in that area and the plot is right near the tracks. If the train runs very early in the morning or late at night that would be an issue.Answered here:
I've also learned that the state bought this line and are upgrading it to possibly increase the frequency of freight trains and maybe run a passenger service from Framingham to Foxborough on game days. Does anyone have a sense of how likely these two things would be?
Thanks in advance.
johnhenry wrote:There is a dbperry post on another forum stating that 724 no longer outlaws in Clinton when serving customers north of there. What is the new schedule then (it used to be Tues and Thurs to go north after sitting overnight at Clinton)?I believe with a change in designation as a "running track" from a "subdivision", as well as a change in work rules since the arrival of EHH, switching operations are not as cumbersome and time consuming on the crew, and they are able to switch the line's industries quicker, which results in running to Clinton (and even Bestway) most days and returning to Framingham. From what I understand, if they have to go all of the way to Leominster (which still occasionally receives a car or two), then they may outlaw on the line.
Milepost20 wrote:I took a ride through Leominster last Friday. There was 3 covered hoppers and a tank at Teknor. Also B724 that day worked Newcorr in Northboro before heading back to Framingham. They use the siding and a number of moves by splitting the power to switch ends instead of heading to Clinton to use the runaround track.They ran to Leominster on Monday. There were two covered hoppers and the rest were all tanks. I don't know what they dropped or picked up there as I did not catch the return. They bypassed the lumber yard so the six empties are still sitting there as of yesterday late morning. It is a bit surprising there isn't any lumber. At this time of year they always very consistently received untreated lumber to process into PT for the upcoming construction season.