Beneath The Bourne
Ex CDOT FL9 #2026 (blt. Sept. 1957 as NH 2007) is leading a six car train with sister FL9 #2011 (blt. Sept. 1960 as NH #2038) on the south end northbound at Aptuxcet station at MP 56 on Mass Coastal Railroad's MassDOT owned Cape Mainline. The classic bulldog EMD is very much at home on these historic ex New Haven Rails where she may have led the Day Cape Codder or Neptune during the summer months in the early 1960s.
The 5 PM Cape Cod Central dinner train has paused briefly beneath the massive 2,384 ft long and 274 ft tall Bourne Bridge carrying the four lanes of busy Route 28 across the Cape Cod Canal. It and sister Sagamore bridge to the east were constructed by the Public Works Administration in conjunction with the federal project to expand the canal's width to 480 feet and its depth to 32 feet. Built between 1933 and 1935 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which owns, operates and maintains both highway bridges as well as the railroad bridge and the canal itself.
Bourne, Massachusetts
Saturday July 9, 2022
Beneath The Bourne
Ex CDOT FL9 #2026 (blt. Sept. 1957 as NH 2007) is leading a six car train with sister FL9 #2011 (blt. Sept. 1960 as NH #2038) on the south end northbound at Aptuxcet station at MP 56 on Mass Coastal Railroad's MassDOT owned Cape Mainline. The classic bulldog EMD is very much at home on these historic ex New Haven Rails where she may have led the Day Cape Codder or Neptune during the summer months in the early 1960s.
The 5 PM Cape Cod Central dinner train has paused briefly beneath the massive 2,384 ft long and 274 ft tall Bourne Bridge carrying the four lanes of busy Route 28 across the Cape Cod Canal. It and sister Sagamore bridge to the east were constructed by the Public Works Administration in conjunction with the federal project to expand the canal's width to 480 feet and its depth to 32 feet. Built between 1933 and 1935 for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which owns, operates and maintains both highway bridges as well as the railroad bridge and the canal itself.
Bourne, Massachusetts
Saturday July 9, 2022