Black White And Bleak
Just a crappy photo perfect for a middle of the night upload while everyone is sleeping! But I like to document at least one shot from each spot no matter how bad just for the journal.
Other than East Portal there are a few other classic locations on the west end that everyone does but with speeds up on the railroad post Pan Am and slow conditions on the roads we couldn't catch back up to them for the Zoar or Charlemont shots. With so many trees along the banks of the Deerfield River there are virtually no open shots anymore. We tried this side of the road grab shot since there was an obstructed whole good for about one unit.
Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train B100 is near East Charlemont at about MP 403 on the former Pan Am Freight Main, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which is newly created to act as a neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a result of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX.
Train B100 is the symbol B&E uses for the continuation to Ayer of Norfolk Southern eastbound 264 (intermodal 63rd Street Yard in Chicago to Mechanicville) that used to be known as 22K. The train is led by the standard SD60E which is necessary due to it being one of a small fleet of this model equipped with ACSES for operation on the MBTA property east of Westminster. This train is on borrowed time out here because another condition of the sale was NS being granted trackage rights for one pair of premium trains (this one and its westbound counterpart) over CSXT's former Boston and Albany route. These trains will then take the old Delaware and Hudson Albany main to Voorheesville, NY and utilize the connection on to Selkirk Branch which has been rebuilt there. From there they will travel east via Selkirk Yard, the Castelton Bridge and the Berkshire and Boston Subs to Worcester and on up to Ayer. Allegedly that routing will commence in March, so if you want shots of 'the pig train' on the old Boston and Maine the time is now!
Buckland, Massachusetts
Friday January 26, 2024
Black White And Bleak
Just a crappy photo perfect for a middle of the night upload while everyone is sleeping! But I like to document at least one shot from each spot no matter how bad just for the journal.
Other than East Portal there are a few other classic locations on the west end that everyone does but with speeds up on the railroad post Pan Am and slow conditions on the roads we couldn't catch back up to them for the Zoar or Charlemont shots. With so many trees along the banks of the Deerfield River there are virtually no open shots anymore. We tried this side of the road grab shot since there was an obstructed whole good for about one unit.
Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train B100 is near East Charlemont at about MP 403 on the former Pan Am Freight Main, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which is newly created to act as a neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a result of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX.
Train B100 is the symbol B&E uses for the continuation to Ayer of Norfolk Southern eastbound 264 (intermodal 63rd Street Yard in Chicago to Mechanicville) that used to be known as 22K. The train is led by the standard SD60E which is necessary due to it being one of a small fleet of this model equipped with ACSES for operation on the MBTA property east of Westminster. This train is on borrowed time out here because another condition of the sale was NS being granted trackage rights for one pair of premium trains (this one and its westbound counterpart) over CSXT's former Boston and Albany route. These trains will then take the old Delaware and Hudson Albany main to Voorheesville, NY and utilize the connection on to Selkirk Branch which has been rebuilt there. From there they will travel east via Selkirk Yard, the Castelton Bridge and the Berkshire and Boston Subs to Worcester and on up to Ayer. Allegedly that routing will commence in March, so if you want shots of 'the pig train' on the old Boston and Maine the time is now!
Buckland, Massachusetts
Friday January 26, 2024