1974 At Weavers
Turning around after taking the prior shot I grabbed this going away view off the same overpass.
Inbound Keolis/MBTA shuttle train 1974 from Fall River to East Taunton with six bi levels shoved by MPI HSP46 2035 hustles north in this view looking north off the New Street overpass above new Weaver interlocking on the Fall River Secondary at MP FS 9.4 which controls access to the new Weavers Cove layover facility and Cashman siding at left which hasn't served any freight customers in decades. The vacant plot of land along the tidal waters of the Taunton River was once a Shell Oil tank farm which closed in the 1990s.
This rail route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait until now.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Friday March 28, 2025
1974 At Weavers
Turning around after taking the prior shot I grabbed this going away view off the same overpass.
Inbound Keolis/MBTA shuttle train 1974 from Fall River to East Taunton with six bi levels shoved by MPI HSP46 2035 hustles north in this view looking north off the New Street overpass above new Weaver interlocking on the Fall River Secondary at MP FS 9.4 which controls access to the new Weavers Cove layover facility and Cashman siding at left which hasn't served any freight customers in decades. The vacant plot of land along the tidal waters of the Taunton River was once a Shell Oil tank farm which closed in the 1990s.
This rail route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait until now.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Friday March 28, 2025