Rolling Thru Rowe
Berkshire and Eastern train EDMO (East Deerfield to Mohawk splits the vintage US&S searchlights guarding CPF415 at the west end of a 9286 ft stretch of remaining two main track on B&E's former Pan Am Freight Main, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. This train originated in Ayer as train SAED and will turn into Norfolk Southern train 11R at Mechanicville for continuation down the old Delaware and Hudson to East Binghamton Yard. They just meet train B100 at the east end of this stretch at CPF 414 and are about to cross the bridge over the Deerfield River and then head into 4.74 miles of darkness through the Hoosac Tunnel. The flat area to the left of the locomotives was once the site of a depot and small yard where the B&M interchanged with the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad. The 25 mile long pike opened as 11 miles of three foot narrow narrow gauge rails to Readsboro, VT in 1885 then was extended north to its namesake Vermont town in 1892 and ultimately standard gauged in 1913. In 1937 it retrenched to Readsboro but the southern half soldered on until it was finally abandoned in 1971.
Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which was created to serve as the neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a condition of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX in 2022. 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.
Rowe, Massachusetts
Saturday April 12, 2025
Rolling Thru Rowe
Berkshire and Eastern train EDMO (East Deerfield to Mohawk splits the vintage US&S searchlights guarding CPF415 at the west end of a 9286 ft stretch of remaining two main track on B&E's former Pan Am Freight Main, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. This train originated in Ayer as train SAED and will turn into Norfolk Southern train 11R at Mechanicville for continuation down the old Delaware and Hudson to East Binghamton Yard. They just meet train B100 at the east end of this stretch at CPF 414 and are about to cross the bridge over the Deerfield River and then head into 4.74 miles of darkness through the Hoosac Tunnel. The flat area to the left of the locomotives was once the site of a depot and small yard where the B&M interchanged with the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad. The 25 mile long pike opened as 11 miles of three foot narrow narrow gauge rails to Readsboro, VT in 1885 then was extended north to its namesake Vermont town in 1892 and ultimately standard gauged in 1913. In 1937 it retrenched to Readsboro but the southern half soldered on until it was finally abandoned in 1971.
Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which was created to serve as the neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a condition of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX in 2022. 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.
Rowe, Massachusetts
Saturday April 12, 2025