Bellingham Shuffle
Just another from this fun morning out with the Grafton and Upton Railroad for the first time in a couple years.
After running down from North Grafton and dropping the second crew at West Upton, this job contined on to Hopedale yard with GU 1191 (blt. Feb. 1978 as SCL 4221) and GMTX 226 (blt. Sep. 1975 as MILW 480) and three cars. After doing some switching and swapping some cars around they split up the power with one unit on each end to effect the switch back move necessary where they reach the end of their property and enter the MBTA owned Milford Industrial track.
Having traveled about 4 1/2 miles from the connection in Milford they are seen here working inside the Bluelinx facility. It's hard to believe they've been serving this customer for over two years now. It seems like just yesterday I was regularly shooting CSXT here on Wednesdays like this: flic.kr/p/2kk2pzb
To learn more about this fascinating little independent road in general check out the long form caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2oiEqcB
And for some history of the Milford Industrial track they used to get here check out this caption: flic.kr/p/2jf6YNP
Bellingham, Massachusetts
Friday February 24, 2023
Bellingham Shuffle
Just another from this fun morning out with the Grafton and Upton Railroad for the first time in a couple years.
After running down from North Grafton and dropping the second crew at West Upton, this job contined on to Hopedale yard with GU 1191 (blt. Feb. 1978 as SCL 4221) and GMTX 226 (blt. Sep. 1975 as MILW 480) and three cars. After doing some switching and swapping some cars around they split up the power with one unit on each end to effect the switch back move necessary where they reach the end of their property and enter the MBTA owned Milford Industrial track.
Having traveled about 4 1/2 miles from the connection in Milford they are seen here working inside the Bluelinx facility. It's hard to believe they've been serving this customer for over two years now. It seems like just yesterday I was regularly shooting CSXT here on Wednesdays like this: flic.kr/p/2kk2pzb
To learn more about this fascinating little independent road in general check out the long form caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2oiEqcB
And for some history of the Milford Industrial track they used to get here check out this caption: flic.kr/p/2jf6YNP
Bellingham, Massachusetts
Friday February 24, 2023