by l008com
I feel like this thread could use an up to date recap of customers on the line.
1) A lot more freight passes down this line every night these days (compared to back in 2006 when I started this thread) but looks like most of it is going to Everett? Is there that much business in Everett these days?
2) Starting from the top, down - So someone mentioned in here a new cement company might be buying the Eames St cement plant? That will be cool for train watching, for that end of the Woburn Loop to be active again. Is this actually happening? Any details?
3) What ever happened to that New England Transrail Transloading Facility? It's been 15+ years, at this point I would assume its fully forgotten but who knows.
4) It appears they are currently, ACTIVELY starting the process of rebuilding the New Boston St bridge north of Anderson. They are preserving the siding there so service can be restored/expanded if anything ever comes of NET/That resin factory.
5) Wilmington Cold Storage seems to have either moved or closed down. The warehouse has been spruced up but looks completely bare inside. I think it's been at least 10 years since there's been evidence of activity on their spur/branch.
6) Also there was talk a while back that where that branch connects to the main line, that junkyard-looking recycling company was reactivating it's spur to restore service. I have not snooped around in person to verify this but looking at google satellite, it looks like this is not the case. It looked like they had a boxcar parked back there for decades, that is now gone. Maybe it was all about just getting that removed? On Apple Maps it actually looks like they paved/graveled over the branch itself so they'd have to clean all that up to restore service across Woburn St
7) I do still see boxcars at atlantic plywood once in a while.
8) Tighe/Rhostein in Woburn, it's hard to get a good view of anything going on there, but I haven't noticed anything, especially at rhostiens, in a while. Tighe is hard to see, but I haven't seen any parked freight trains under Olympia Ave in a while which is a bad omen.
9) Tighe in Winchester and the "Montvale Yard". This had always been very active since they reactivated it, up until very recently. But it looks like it hasn't seen a train in a little while. I'm usually only getting in that area at night so it's possible I just have bad train-luck but it does appear they may have suspended service?
10) So does this CSX purchase actually mean anything to my little neck of the woods? Obviously we're all railfans here so we'd like it to mean more trains and more customers switching back to rail service. And there are still plenty of physical warehouses that could have sidings reactivated fairly easily. But those buildings might be filled with companies that mine bitcoins these days, no boxcars necessary. Is it realistic to expect any local increases in service like that? Or are things more or less going to stay status quo around here for the foreseeable future?
1) A lot more freight passes down this line every night these days (compared to back in 2006 when I started this thread) but looks like most of it is going to Everett? Is there that much business in Everett these days?
2) Starting from the top, down - So someone mentioned in here a new cement company might be buying the Eames St cement plant? That will be cool for train watching, for that end of the Woburn Loop to be active again. Is this actually happening? Any details?
3) What ever happened to that New England Transrail Transloading Facility? It's been 15+ years, at this point I would assume its fully forgotten but who knows.
4) It appears they are currently, ACTIVELY starting the process of rebuilding the New Boston St bridge north of Anderson. They are preserving the siding there so service can be restored/expanded if anything ever comes of NET/That resin factory.
5) Wilmington Cold Storage seems to have either moved or closed down. The warehouse has been spruced up but looks completely bare inside. I think it's been at least 10 years since there's been evidence of activity on their spur/branch.
6) Also there was talk a while back that where that branch connects to the main line, that junkyard-looking recycling company was reactivating it's spur to restore service. I have not snooped around in person to verify this but looking at google satellite, it looks like this is not the case. It looked like they had a boxcar parked back there for decades, that is now gone. Maybe it was all about just getting that removed? On Apple Maps it actually looks like they paved/graveled over the branch itself so they'd have to clean all that up to restore service across Woburn St
7) I do still see boxcars at atlantic plywood once in a while.
8) Tighe/Rhostein in Woburn, it's hard to get a good view of anything going on there, but I haven't noticed anything, especially at rhostiens, in a while. Tighe is hard to see, but I haven't seen any parked freight trains under Olympia Ave in a while which is a bad omen.
9) Tighe in Winchester and the "Montvale Yard". This had always been very active since they reactivated it, up until very recently. But it looks like it hasn't seen a train in a little while. I'm usually only getting in that area at night so it's possible I just have bad train-luck but it does appear they may have suspended service?
10) So does this CSX purchase actually mean anything to my little neck of the woods? Obviously we're all railfans here so we'd like it to mean more trains and more customers switching back to rail service. And there are still plenty of physical warehouses that could have sidings reactivated fairly easily. But those buildings might be filled with companies that mine bitcoins these days, no boxcars necessary. Is it realistic to expect any local increases in service like that? Or are things more or less going to stay status quo around here for the foreseeable future?
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