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Madjack wrote:The track in Peabody also looks in good shape. This line was done when a Guilford train struck a car crossing RT1 on a return trip from Eastern Seaboard back in 1997.
The train would stop on the northbound side of RT1. The crossing lights and bell were were activated, then the engineer would blow the horn until the traffic on the northbound side would stop. Once the northbound traffic was stopped the train would move across the northbound side to the median strip. The crew would then stop in the median strip, sound the horn and wait for the traffic on the southbound side to stop. Once the southbound traffic was stopped the crew would go the rest of the way across.
On the day of the accident traffic on the southbound side was stopped, the train started across, then someone decided to go down the breakdown lane and try to beat the train across.
The train T-boned the car and pushed the car down the tracks into the woods. The highway was shut down for the better part of the day while the accident was investigated.
I do not believe the beer train crossed RT1 after that incident.
MBTA F40PH-2C 1050 wrote:where did the newburyport branch meet up with the mainline? also there was an accident at Route 1 mentioned, what happened?Wakefield Jct., which is still intact and tied to the Western Route shortly south of Wakefield station. They stopped serving it out of Peabody Sq. via the Danvers branch after a river trestle burned in the 80's and strictly went the long way from Wakefield until the whole line was embargoed in 2001.