Mystic Crossing
CSXT local B721 crosses the Draw 7 bridge over the Mystic River crossing from Somerville into Everrett. This is MP 2.22 on the former Boston and Maine now MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline. CSXT has trackage rights over this route as a legacy from when predecessor Boston and Albany maintained a parallel route here before swinging off towaes the the East Boston docks.
The Framingham based local is headed to Chelsea and Everett with a gondal load for Schnitzer Northeast and a cut of UP reefers for the Boston Produce Market CSXT's eastern most customers. In less than a year CSXT would be gone from this trackage and would contract with Pan Am to handle their business via the daily Pan Am train from Selkirk through Worcester to Ayer. But perhaps if the merger goes through CSXT will be back here again...
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday May 2, 2018
Mystic Crossing
CSXT local B721 crosses the Draw 7 bridge over the Mystic River crossing from Somerville into Everrett. This is MP 2.22 on the former Boston and Maine now MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline. CSXT has trackage rights over this route as a legacy from when predecessor Boston and Albany maintained a parallel route here before swinging off towaes the the East Boston docks.
The Framingham based local is headed to Chelsea and Everett with a gondal load for Schnitzer Northeast and a cut of UP reefers for the Boston Produce Market CSXT's eastern most customers. In less than a year CSXT would be gone from this trackage and would contract with Pan Am to handle their business via the daily Pan Am train from Selkirk through Worcester to Ayer. But perhaps if the merger goes through CSXT will be back here again...
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday May 2, 2018