Middleboro Meet
The small south coast Mass town of Middleboro still features three railroads and can get busy at times. After shooting B726 making the transfer moves and the Mass Coastal pick up I caught this meet before heading to the Cape.
Keolis/MBTA inbound train 2004 is moments out of the Middleboro/Lakeville station with an HSP46 on the rear. The MC-X special with the single high wide load is sitting in the clear at Pilgrim Interlocking (about MP 35 on the Middleboro main) on the south leg of the wye. As soon as the T train clears the interlocking the turnout will line over and they'll get the light to head east toward home rails at Bay and continue east all the way to Hyannis.
They will stop in Rochester yard to pick up four loaded MassDOT ballast hoppers that will be dumped at several spots along the way then proceed to the end of the line. This is an extremely rare revenue freight move to Hyannis that hasn't seen anything other than passenger and work trains in a couple decades on the segment of track extending down from Yarmouth Jct.
2009 is a rare model GP28 built by EMD in Nov. 1964 for the Illinois Central as their #9439. Only 31 of the 1800 hp units were built and only 16 of those were for US roads.
Middleborough, Massachusetts
Friday May 8, 2020
Middleboro Meet
The small south coast Mass town of Middleboro still features three railroads and can get busy at times. After shooting B726 making the transfer moves and the Mass Coastal pick up I caught this meet before heading to the Cape.
Keolis/MBTA inbound train 2004 is moments out of the Middleboro/Lakeville station with an HSP46 on the rear. The MC-X special with the single high wide load is sitting in the clear at Pilgrim Interlocking (about MP 35 on the Middleboro main) on the south leg of the wye. As soon as the T train clears the interlocking the turnout will line over and they'll get the light to head east toward home rails at Bay and continue east all the way to Hyannis.
They will stop in Rochester yard to pick up four loaded MassDOT ballast hoppers that will be dumped at several spots along the way then proceed to the end of the line. This is an extremely rare revenue freight move to Hyannis that hasn't seen anything other than passenger and work trains in a couple decades on the segment of track extending down from Yarmouth Jct.
2009 is a rare model GP28 built by EMD in Nov. 1964 for the Illinois Central as their #9439. Only 31 of the 1800 hp units were built and only 16 of those were for US roads.
Middleborough, Massachusetts
Friday May 8, 2020