Williamstown
For Station Saturday here's another from my recent little chase of Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train B100. They are passing the historic former passenger station here at MP 427 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Built in 1898 by the Fitchburg Railroad, it saw its last scheduled passenger train call on November 30, 1958 when the final train headed east to Boston via the Hoosac Tunnel. Sold into private hands the following year it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
To learn a bit more see below:
www.historic-structures.com/ma/williamstown/train_station...
B100 is the symbol B&E uses for the continuation to Ayer of Norfolk Southern train 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 here because one condition of the sale of Pan Am to CSXT in 2022 was the granting of trakage rights to NS for the operation of one daily 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 June 1, so if you want shots of 'the pig train' on the old Boston and Maine the time is now.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Friday January 17, 2025
Williamstown
For Station Saturday here's another from my recent little chase of Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train B100. They are passing the historic former passenger station here at MP 427 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Built in 1898 by the Fitchburg Railroad, it saw its last scheduled passenger train call on November 30, 1958 when the final train headed east to Boston via the Hoosac Tunnel. Sold into private hands the following year it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
To learn a bit more see below:
www.historic-structures.com/ma/williamstown/train_station...
B100 is the symbol B&E uses for the continuation to Ayer of Norfolk Southern train 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 here because one condition of the sale of Pan Am to CSXT in 2022 was the granting of trakage rights to NS for the operation of one daily 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 June 1, so if you want shots of 'the pig train' on the old Boston and Maine the time is now.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Friday January 17, 2025