Blue Hour Along The Canal
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad welcomed a big crowd to their second annual Railfans Day on Saturday August 17, 2024. The big draw for photographers this year was the operation of their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have operated leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
The railfan festival has wrapped up and this is the third train of the day headed back south to Hyannis as an empty deadhead move after dropping off visitors at the Bourne Station who had parked and ridden in from there. The train has just ducked into the 2000 ft long Sagamore siding at MP 59.6 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Railroad Cape Mainline. Here on the north end of the train is MC 2012, a rebuilt GP38-2 that began life as a straight GP40 in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 2011. Passing them on the main is the northbound CapeFLYER from Hyannis to South Station in Boston led by rebuilt MassDOT blue GP40MC 1137.
First opened as a private enterprise in 1914 after five years of construction, the seven mile long Cape Cod Canal was originally a for profit tollway. In 1928, the government purchased the canal for $11.4 million as a free public waterway, and $21 million was spent between 1935 and 1940 increasing the canal's width to 480 feet as seen here and its depth to 32 feet.
Bourne, Massachusetts
Saturday August 17, 2024
Blue Hour Along The Canal
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad welcomed a big crowd to their second annual Railfans Day on Saturday August 17, 2024. The big draw for photographers this year was the operation of their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have operated leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
The railfan festival has wrapped up and this is the third train of the day headed back south to Hyannis as an empty deadhead move after dropping off visitors at the Bourne Station who had parked and ridden in from there. The train has just ducked into the 2000 ft long Sagamore siding at MP 59.6 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Railroad Cape Mainline. Here on the north end of the train is MC 2012, a rebuilt GP38-2 that began life as a straight GP40 in October 1966 as Milwaukee Road 2011. Passing them on the main is the northbound CapeFLYER from Hyannis to South Station in Boston led by rebuilt MassDOT blue GP40MC 1137.
First opened as a private enterprise in 1914 after five years of construction, the seven mile long Cape Cod Canal was originally a for profit tollway. In 1928, the government purchased the canal for $11.4 million as a free public waterway, and $21 million was spent between 1935 and 1940 increasing the canal's width to 480 feet as seen here and its depth to 32 feet.
Bourne, Massachusetts
Saturday August 17, 2024