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heh, i really dig that "at home on boston & maine"

From what I remember, if VTR must run to HJ to grab cars that RJ-1/AD-1 couldn't get to North Bennington, it counts as a "missed interchange" as technically NB is the interchange point, not Hoosick Junction. Is the eastbound main still under B&M land ownership? It actually wouldn't be ...

PAS will be getting $2.5M from NYS to reconfigure and expand Hoosick Junction. Was on Albany news. woah... 2.5mill is a lot of money though. Presumably some will go towards rebuilding the east leg of the wye. There's not a whole lot of room to add trackage there, maybe a mile of extended double tra...

Has the Boston & Lowell's Lawrence branch been mentioned yet? It closely paralleled the B&M's route to Lowell and was abandoned for the most part in 1936. Reformatory Branch west of Bedford- very little online traffic, and a connection to the NA&B/NYNH&H west of Reformatory Station t...

Guilford gave up on North Acton in the 80s I think. Bay Colony took over the operation for the last few years. Also cross-quoted from an older thread- The local freight that served the Lexington Branch up until 1980 (yes it was 1980 not 1979) was down to two customers by the time operations ceased; ...

Agway in Waltham on the Central Mass. I want to say 1994? Unknown Lumberyard in Sudbury was I believe the last customer on the southern end of the Framingham & Lowell. After the May 2000 derailment service was annulled. Also on the F&L was the North Acton Lumberyard, serviced by a Guilford T...

biggest I ever had was a 132 car 11r. had 22 to set out at riverside, but 3 were missing. put 19 into smr2, power back to the train, 20feet west of the 483 signal, and the hind car hanging out halfway into alplaus... still better than the 11r where after the bk and vtr set offs was 4 omya tanks and ...

Yeah, CP took out about a good chunk of the north end of SMR4. Not really sure why, but it's mostly used to store flats for GE.

hospital move just went westbound by my apartment on Atlantic Ave... crummy iphone grab shot from the bedroom window. NY&A 100, 2 cars, and NY&A 101 bringing up the markers. was so excited to see a 1001 out here that I neglected to get the car numbers.

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Given that it's 10 mins beyond the Vermont Border, I'd say the D&H Washington County Branch. A rural line from Rutland to nowhere, via nowhere. That it still exists as the Batten Kill is a miracle. Lines with far less mileage and many more customers have been torn up. Grafton & Upton is anot...

Is Saratoga Springs SS or SR? I could've sworn it was SR back when trains ran there... Also, Mechanicville is more frequently referred to as XO. The auto job switchers run as XO-1, and the High Iron fan trip ran as BOXO iirc. XO is the former name of the interlocking/tower at the D&H/B&M spl...

3 of the narrow gauge engines went to a sugar plantation in San Ramon Cuba. Trail goes cold after their 1916 sale, but that's not to say they'renot still around, albeit unlikely. A couple DRRR engines were sold to other lumber interests in the states, but are probably lost.

Not necessarily a line, nor even in New England by a few miles, but the Mechanicville Hump Yard would be pretty valuable today... I imagine the Cheshire could have had a fighting chance had it lasted a few years beyond 1970. Look at the favorable P&W/VTR relationship today, and the G&W acqui...

Got curious about extant equipment today, so after a few hours of research... HT&W #5's Tender Frame on display Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum Shelburne Falls MA HT&W 16 GE 44 Tonner on display Stevenson Depot Museum, no number, Stevenson AL HT&W 20 GE 70 Tonner OOS @ Laurinburg & So...