West By Williamstown
Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO (East Deerfield to Mohawk) heads west past 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. 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.
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.
Built in 1898 by the Fitchburg Railroad, this station 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...
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Saturday April 12, 2025
West By Williamstown
Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO (East Deerfield to Mohawk) heads west past 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. 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.
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.
Built in 1898 by the Fitchburg Railroad, this station 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...
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Saturday April 12, 2025