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malbojah wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:28 am Okay, who snuck a pair of MBTA coaches onto the base without clearing the MOW yet

We haven't had that much rain as the news would lead some to believe (save for a deluge a few days before Hurricane Henri swept thru the area uneventfully). I doubt they've had any damage.

Caught these 2 units rolling through the center of Grafton on Tuesday morning 8/17. Must've been doing a test run. They weren't pulling/pushing any cars.

Would they drop them in N Grafton or in some future yard in Milford/Franklin? Seems like the N Grafton terminus is quite busy these days. If they have a second yard at Milford/Franklin they could effectively have two trains running a day. One N Grafton to Upton and another Franklin to Hopedale. That...

"Bay Colony" the next G&U comeback kid?!!!

Was fortunate enough to hear the train whistle when the G&U was crossing Old Upton Road & Browns Rd heading towards the Grafton Common. Rode up with my sons and watched the train roll through the center of town. Conductor was very nice - slowed down the train to wave at my kids, who were sup...

Pictures!!!! Please

John is correct. CSX drops the cars in the G&U yard full and then picks up the empties. There are pictures out there somewhere of CSX engines switching in the G&U yard near the old dry goods transfer shed.

Rail and transloading are considered 'Essential Business' per Mass Gov't, so I'm sure the G&U will do their best to keep their hard working employees employed, especially through such trying times. I would think that the economic fallout from this virus would weigh more heavily on future rail ex...

Schwachman is an extremely litigious, stubborn old developer (or lack thereof in the case of the Draper factory).
Not surprised he wants to get in on the action against the railroad.

So if the warehouse is being turned into a pot warehouse and the fly ash/cement customer went to the G&U's Hopedale yard, does BCLR have any remaining customers, or is this the end of the line for this once prominent RR? The G&U still has the two units from BCLR (their GP9 1750 and their CF7...

There was a truck and some beat up old ties near the CSX line. This section hasn’t changed in years.

More photos.

I toured the G&U on Friday for the first time in years.Train went to Hopedale in the morning and stopped in West Upton around 9am and spent a couple hours switching before taking some cars back to N Grafton. Looks like a lot of work for the train engineers to switch on track that’s on an incline...

What is a safety train? I know Keilos runs the MBTA. Why would they be on the G&U? Perhaps just to use it as a siding and they had to back the cars up through this intersection in order to move onto one of the G&Us sidings?