I know the Eastern is pretty much dead straight, but I didn't think about the profile (?) of the Western. I thought "train Portsmouth to Boston", not even of intermediate stops, and concluded Ports to Rock was fewer miles and no bridge at Newburyport. I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say those Newburyport trains are, relatively, quiet. Not much warning as they approach, a burst, the rapidly receding sound of steel wheels on steel.
This isn't the best picture, but I wanted to prove I've been near trains passing at speed along the Eastern. A good few places to walk along the route in Mass.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newmundane/3492381157
I just thought of it- 1977-78 I lived across from the station in Hampton and would stop in Colt News for a roll of Necco wafers and go up on the bridge and watch the switchers.
This isn't the best picture, but I wanted to prove I've been near trains passing at speed along the Eastern. A good few places to walk along the route in Mass.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newmundane/3492381157
I just thought of it- 1977-78 I lived across from the station in Hampton and would stop in Colt News for a roll of Necco wafers and go up on the bridge and watch the switchers.