Swinging Around The Wye
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad hosted their third annual Railfans Day this year, offering the rare opportunity to photograph their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have when new leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 ans Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively) are leading the first of three trips from Bourne to the festivities in Hyannis yard with stops to pick up more passengers at Sanwich and West Barnstable along the way. The train is swinging around the west or north leg of the wye passing the station sign at MP 75.5 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Cape Main and to Hyannis is only 3 1/2 miles away.
Mass Coastal's freight only South Dennis Line extends from this junction east (railroad south) about three miles where the tracks end just beyond the Yarmouth-Barnstable Regional Commercial Transfer Station where the energy train loads. However, until 1960 the rails extended 45 miles all the way out to the far tip of the outer Cape at Provincetown and today the right of way remains intact as a popular bike trail.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Saturday August 16, 2025
Swinging Around The Wye
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad hosted their third annual Railfans Day this year, offering the rare opportunity to photograph their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have when new leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 ans Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively) are leading the first of three trips from Bourne to the festivities in Hyannis yard with stops to pick up more passengers at Sanwich and West Barnstable along the way. The train is swinging around the west or north leg of the wye passing the station sign at MP 75.5 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Cape Main and to Hyannis is only 3 1/2 miles away.
Mass Coastal's freight only South Dennis Line extends from this junction east (railroad south) about three miles where the tracks end just beyond the Yarmouth-Barnstable Regional Commercial Transfer Station where the energy train loads. However, until 1960 the rails extended 45 miles all the way out to the far tip of the outer Cape at Provincetown and today the right of way remains intact as a popular bike trail.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Saturday August 16, 2025