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Took a ride through Ayer today 11:00-12:00. Grain train (AY-1) entering Ardent Mills. EDSA tied down with racks on #2 track at Wagon Wheel. B-101 putting train together at Hill yard. FI-1 BERX 5936 with a string of cars on South Track waiting to get into Hill Yard. B+E dispatcher having a very busy ...

Some rare these days daylight running on the Stony. At about 15:00 CSX L-080 MEC 516 light engine WB through Westford. At 16:23 L-080 got ok on signal indication at East Wye Ayer from B+E. At 16:56 eastbound L-080 received no defects and 144 total axles from Littleton detector. At 17:02 D2 discussin...

Its funny I was going to post the "Rube Goldberg" comment but I didn't think people would get it. The device does look like it has too many moving parts to survive . If you look at the attached two pictures the "buggy" behind the machine is the regulator broom. I believe the tank...

At about 20:00 EDPO with the BERX 7541 got no defects and 262 axles from Littleton detector. 20:07 EDPO was told by D2 set off train at WA and return light engines to Ayer. 20:08 D1 gave M426 CSXT 1712 a Form D Burncoat to WOR 1. D1 and D2 appear to be the same person tonight. About 21:15 B+E gave M...

Does anyone know anything about this ? (When you click the pic it rotates to normal) I spotted this machine on a siding on the former Pan Am Stony Brook now CSX Portland Subdivision in Chelmsford,Ma. It has a sticker identifying it as "The Dragon" fabricated at the CSX Bryan Park Roadway S...

In addition to Town Farm Rd. crossing, ties have been dropped at Depot Rd and Brookside Rd. in Westford, plus School St. in Chelmsford. It looks like CSX will probably do a tie job on the whole branch to finish up the low budget job Pan Am did in 2016. I don't think the crossing 's are that bad so t...

Sorry about the rotated picture but I've wasted enough time getting it right, happens every time I post a picture from my phone here.

CSX is getting ready for springtime work , a pile of ties and rail was recently dropped off at Town Farm Rd. crossing in Westford. I assume this is for this crossing, but they have stockpiled material here before and then taken it to another location.

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Also an SD70AC and SD 40-3 , I imagine the paparazzi will be out in force if they make it to the Worcester line before sunset.

It seems like M426/427 run late night now and I think there have been some days they haven't run at all. Video from Millers Railfan shows M426 led by CSXT 477 and 5 other units through Clinton at 23:30 on Monday about 130 cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JukSbX81fs0&list=WL&index=2 I se...

Wednesday 1/24/24 at 21:13 B+E EDPO with the BERX 7518 received a no defects and 114 total axles from Littleton detector. D2 told them set all the cars off Track 1 at WA and they would return light power to Ayer. My question for people here who know how these things work. Back in December it was pos...

Saturday 1/21/2024 at about 21:00 B+E gave M426 CSXT 465 instructions for a pickup at Hill Yard. At about 21:30 EDPO BERX 7541 received a no defects from Littleton detector, I missed the axle count. D2 told them to set off entire train on Track 1 at WA and then he'd get them light engines back to Ay...

Later plentiful radio traffic confirms what Mr. Barlow said. The symbol was actually "S 997" which was past Littleton DD about 22:50 and got permission to continue east because of expected high hits. D2 told them to expect signal to "drop" at NC, signal maintenance crew on site t...

A mystery train tonight, at about 18:45 I heard on the road channel "997 stop signal CPF WL." Then at 19:07 District 1 gave a " Form D to 997 with the MEC 7609 to operate in both directions on the single track WOR 1 to Burncoat." There was then something about "what to use f...

At 17:29 today EB B+E EDPO received no defects, total axles 146 from Littleton detector. D2 told them set off at WA. At 19:10 same EDPO lite engines WB no defects total axles 18 from same detector. B+E dispatcher told them set engines on West Main. About 21:00 M426 CSXT 478 got no defects, total axl...