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PL-1 at Greystone
Pan Am’s PL-1 is rolling westbound along the former New Haven RR’s “Highland” route in Plymouth, CT, with interchange traffic for Waterbury. Historically this line was important enough to have been re-built two times through this area; first to add a second track and reduce number of curves and grades; and second to detour around the Hancock Brook flood control dam, which is one of many in the area built in the 1960’s by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to destructive flooding in the region. By 2010 this end of the line was operated twice a week at best with only one steady customer left to the west, but this thankfully changed around 2016 with the opening of a construction debris transfer facility in Watertown and a new propane terminal in Plymouth (where the truck passing over the train is almost certainly coming from).
PL-1 at Greystone
Pan Am’s PL-1 is rolling westbound along the former New Haven RR’s “Highland” route in Plymouth, CT, with interchange traffic for Waterbury. Historically this line was important enough to have been re-built two times through this area; first to add a second track and reduce number of curves and grades; and second to detour around the Hancock Brook flood control dam, which is one of many in the area built in the 1960’s by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to destructive flooding in the region. By 2010 this end of the line was operated twice a week at best with only one steady customer left to the west, but this thankfully changed around 2016 with the opening of a construction debris transfer facility in Watertown and a new propane terminal in Plymouth (where the truck passing over the train is almost certainly coming from).