End Of The Line
The old New Haven Fitchburg Branch doesn't reach its namesake town any longer instead ending here about 4.6 miles short at the Mechanic Street crossing at MP QBU 4.6 where just enough track is maintained and the crossing signals manually operated so that two units can clear the north end of the runaround.
It's been decades since a train has traveled any further north than this point and the rails are long gone, but amazingly just around the corner maybe 100 ft behind me is the circa 1878 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad station that saw it's last New Haven passenger train call in 1928.
Leominster, Massachusetts
Thursday September 24, 2021
End Of The Line
The old New Haven Fitchburg Branch doesn't reach its namesake town any longer instead ending here about 4.6 miles short at the Mechanic Street crossing at MP QBU 4.6 where just enough track is maintained and the crossing signals manually operated so that two units can clear the north end of the runaround.
It's been decades since a train has traveled any further north than this point and the rails are long gone, but amazingly just around the corner maybe 100 ft behind me is the circa 1878 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad station that saw it's last New Haven passenger train call in 1928.
Leominster, Massachusetts
Thursday September 24, 2021