Weymouth Naval Air Station

What railroad served the Weymouth Naval Air Station and when did it end?

Last summer I was at a park in Hingham that used to be a weapons station annex for Weymouth Naval Air Station and there were ROWs all over the place. Also, there used to be a NIKE site there during the Cold War. It seems to me that I read someplace while researching the annex that it, along with Weymouth NAS, were served by the Old Colony (PRR). The rail line was used to shuttle munitions to and from the air station.

Now that I think of it, that may have been the Greenbush Line that served the NAS. See the MBTA Project Plan for the new Greenbush line...

http://www.mbta.com/projects_underway/g ... sp#project

Wompatuck State Park is also crisscrossed by old RR ROWs. Always quite interesting to walk through.

Neal, that the park I was talking about with the ROWs.

Chuck

The Bay Colony Railroad most recently served Weymouth NAS. In fact, this topic came up on the BayColony list not too long ago... someone even posted an overhead shot of the base trackage too. There were about 50 posts on the matter. To break it down, it sounds like BCLR never actually did any freight on NAS trackage but they did park the Lincoln Flag Train on the spur in April 1987:

http://www.capecodrails.com/vintage_bcl ... -18-87.jpg

Enjoy,

JAJ