That car made it all the way up the embankment and made a 180 degree turn to head north (timetable east) down the tracks. That's amazing! The Article mentions the "Snoopy Rock" which is located at that sharp bend after Plimpton St crosses the Neponset River and turns 90 degrees to follow the RR and the river. To get this back on topic, Walpole was traversed by 3 railroad lines. At one time, you couldn't enter or leave Walpole Center without crossing over or under a RR. There were at least 8 stations in town at one time, most abandoned. These are the ones I know of:
East Walpole (Wrentham Br)
Walpole Heights (Wrentham Br)
Cedar (formerly Walpole Jct, Wrentham Br and Framingham Secondary)
Pondville (Wrentham Br. - the station building still exists as a restaurant on Rt. 1)
Plimptonville (Active - Franklin Br.)
Walpole (Active - Franklin Br and Framingham Secondary)
West Walpole (Franklin Branch - I'm not sure where this was. The late New Haven Railroad historian Fran Donovan once told me that it was last used as a stop for Walpole school students. You see, Norfolk kids attended Walpole schools up to the 1950's and at one time those kids rode the train to Walpole from City Mills, Norfolk and Highland Lake stations)
South Walpole (now the South Walpole Post Office - Framingham Secondary)
Did I miss any?
Tom Coughlin
Stow, MA
(I grew up in Plimptonville which has a lot of interesting history beyond just the railroad. One interinteresting fact: the late Joe Welch, attorney that foiled Sen. Joe McCarthy during the famous anti Communist hearings in the 50's, lived in Plimptonville)