B & M built the Ayer Auto Facility about 1973. I seem to think N & W helped with the financing; it was run through the bankruptcy court. The Ford business was a New Haven operation and that road had some sort of facility in Readville. Penn Central was probably at a very low point when N & W/B & M and Ford built the Ayer facility. I think it was 6 tracks, right off Willows Road (THE WILLOWS). When I worked at Amtrak, one of the former New Haven trainmen who became a trainer, mentioned his first day on the road. I think the autos came in via Maybrook to New Haven, probably through Hartford-Willimantic-Plainfield-Putnam-Readville. On his first day, a car of Fords went on the ground at Versailles, CT on the Willimantic-Plainfield branch. It was about 1965. Much earlier, when I was a teenager, maybe 1959-1960, I photographed an auto rack of new Fords in the NH yard in Framingham, so maybe initially the Fords came via NYC to Framingham. Boston area auto yards were Readville-Ford (later Ayer), Framingham-GM, Westboro-Chrysler, Somerville-American Motors.