LAST TRAIN: Pan Am BO-1's last run to Peabody, MA before abandonment? - 8/31/2023
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2023
- On 8/31/2023 Pan Am Railways (now CSX) BO-1 ran to Peabody, MA for the last time. The last rail served customer on the North Shore, Rousselot gelatin plant, is closing down this year and stopped receiving railcars this week. Today the last empty was pulled out and I was able to document a sad but historic event of this line's history. While it will be a while its possible that the line will be abandoned at some point in the future although a section of the Danvers Industrial Track may see use for trolley passenger service in the future. Stay tuned for more info on that in another future video. This video follows the train out of Boston north to Peabody then back down as far as Chelsea where we paid our final respects to the last freight train on the north shore.
Boston, Chelsea, Salem, Peabody, MA
8/31/2023
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Thank you so much for recording this video of this branch line. No matter what happens, future generations will be able to see it as it once was.
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Indeed. ❤❤
Yeah there are abandoned lines from before the 2000s where only one or two videos are up on UA-cam. Like the Norfolk Southern high bridge in FarmVille Virginia. There’s only one video of the work train pulling up the tracks. No videos of normal operation on UA-cam and no pictures on Google except the last engine running light across the bridge.
End of an era. RIP to such freight rail operations like this on the North Shore
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Land being used for housing will need expand commuter rail for housing eventually
@@PostalWorker14hopefully they expand the commuter rail to Peabody Danvers and south reading. That factory is only 5 minutes from my house
Such a sad day for North Shore railfans. These memories will fade into the ether, like my memories of watching freight trains snake through Wakefield and Lynnfield on the South Reading branch.
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Always sad to see a spur or branch line die but there is less and less every year it seems
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Glad I’m not the only one to think it could be a historic trolley route
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Or expanding the commuter rail
Beautiful video footage.
Nice Train Crew .
Back in the 80’s I serviced the Coke machines at Eastman Gel . It was a coveted job back in the day . They had their own bowling alley with a game room and I think a 9 hole golf course.
That line must have serviced all the Tanneries and Machine Shops along Howley St . My brothers and I worked our way through school at those establishments. I can still remember the smell from the river as well .
Sad to see more work leave . I hope they leave the rail lines in . You never know what the future holds.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Somebody else remembers their bowling alley. lol.
Ya never know! Steuben Industrial Development Agency invested $$ in repairing a B & H spur. It sat for many years capable, but still unused. LP Building Solutions expansion in Bath saw it put back in service in recent days. Hearing the train horn at the crossings was pretty cool! Never say never. What a great re-introduction!
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Problem with the bike trail people when it serves as just a trail ,is that if the right away was to be reconstituted as a rail line again they throw a fit. It's bad enough in some cities they take out a car lane and turn it into a bike path AND THEY STILL RIDE IN CAR TRAFFIC ANYWAYS SNARLING UP TRAFFIC🙄
I am so glad you got the last one! AND I am super glad that my friend Connor had the honors of being conductor on this historic run
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Great work !!! I am a fan of last day documentaries, and you did a terrific job here. All of such occasions are sad ones, and worthy of remeberance in this way. In Ontario we lost a short line railway, the Orangeville and Brampton RR in December 2021. Like you did here, I tried my best to document the last day of the O&BRR. Big thumbs up for this work!! James.
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Thank you for documenting history for future generations. In all honesty, not much is documented about a particular rail line's final day of operation. Either because it was unplanned, unforseen, or not announced.
I was truly fortunate to capture the final revenue run for the Carolina Southern from Conway to Myrtle Beach, SC in 2012. No one, not even the crew themselves knew it was the final run. The movement itself was unusual by the fact it was a unit train of aggregate in NS/SOU chip hoppers, and it was prior to hurricane Irene skirting the coast. I knew there were plans to lower the Pine Island bridge as well. Little did I know that I'd be documenting the final operation of both simultaneously. Before the rock train was unloaded, the FRA condemned several bridges along the line. Thus, trapping the NS owned cars where they sat until the RJ Corman purchase in 2015. After Irene passed, the bridge was lifted for presumably for final time. Not long afterward vandals broke into the engine room, and stole all of the copper wiring. Thereby, further rendering the final stretch into Myrtle Beach proper usless. It's only customer at the time was either a box or centerbeam for 84 Lumber. Even then, it was a rare move. After the closure, and subsequent vandalism of the bridge, 84 Lumber abandoned rail altogether. Today, the line from Carolina Forest to the bridge either sits unused, or is used for storage. The remaining portion from the Pine Island bridge to the Myrtle Beach depot has remained in a state of abandonment. So far, the future looks rather bleak, as there are serious plans to turn the historic line into a... You guessed it, another rail trail. There have been past talks of a tourist operation, but all have stalled due to local politics, and $$$.
It's my hope that this truly unique, and picturesque New England branch line doesn't succumb to the fate of so many before it. Our rail infrastructure must be preserved & protected. Not for us railfans, but for those unforseen future endeavors that could potentially bring much needed jobs & revenue to a community.
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Very well documented! Great job!
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Hope to see the line live on in rail form with some type of trolley or passenger service, but if the folks up there are anything like they are here in Pittsburgh they’ll probably be jumping at the chance to turn this into a bike trail…
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At least most of the bike trails that have been built on abandoned rail lines are on lines that are railbanked. Meaning, that they could be reopened at any time with minimal objection from the public.
Reopen or bring some kind of liveliness back to the Pittsburgh area? The city is plagued with snobby green freaks who cry about your cat farting and all around it are religious old people who think progress and thriving is a crime. We are screwed no matter what here.
It's good to see very young rail fans. Maybe the hobby has a future.
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I guess the funeral was well-attended. Great coverage on a down-on-its-luck line reminds me of when the Milwaukee Road pulled out of the beer line where once hundreds of cars rolled everyday
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Sad day! ❤️🙏🕊🫂 Awesome video! Great tribute with a “Once Member “ of the Guilford OCS locomotive making this last run!
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As sad as this is, thank you for documenting this final run!
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Thanks so much for posting this! Very sad to see this service end!
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Glad you documented it. My old job used to bring me up there in the early 2000's and caught this job several times. sad not much business on the north shore.
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Holy crap, I saw this in Chelsea yesterday and didn't even know what it was!
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I am in the video several times! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching! It was great to document some history.
That is a great potential hope for the future of this line by turning it into a vintage trolley line. I hope to look forward to hearing this progress in the future.
Nothing vintage planned. As far as I know it would be a modern vehicle used.
Maybe it will be commuter rail in future more likely a rail trail from Danvers to Salem Rail Station
Find another customer
that's very easy! why didn't they think of that?@@1BigRed
@@PostalWorker14this I could see working.
It sucks to see so many customers losing service and the loss of rail traffic.
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While car traffic increases.
Soooooo SAD to see such awesome Rail being abandoned and NOT used again absolutely Horrible hopefully business will come back and open up the Rails once again 😞..
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I had wanted to get down to there to film one train this year. oh well. Sucks I never got to see this job but really glad it has been filmed by others for us to enjoy. It would be sad to tear up the tracks
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Great video and footage it's pretty sad this will be abandoned but at least you got to film and video it one last time hopefully they can get it saved
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@@SouthCoastRailVideos You're Very welcome
Thanks for the view👍as a railfan since 1949 in MSP,we had a spur every 4 blocks,to me spur,branch lines were most interesting/ fun to walk alongside,5-10 mph track,sorry / thanks to all of your crew from MN 🥶👍
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Thank you for sharing! So sad to see this happening all over our Country!
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Awesome video! Glad that it was captured on video.
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What up jaw
Thanks for taking us along on this final ride. It makes me sad to think that once they park this train for the last time that it'll probably end up becoming another one to sit and rust and rot away to the ravages of time and to be forgotten about at some point like lots of other great trains before this one until a future generation comes along wanting to restore it because it'll probably end up sitting until whoever comes along later on in the future at some point and has a problem starting it up again 40-50+ years or so from now.
Thankfully the engine and cars will be used elsewhere. The line is what will no longer be used for the time being.
That’ll or it will be another line , lost to the “rail trail” bozos
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Excellent video Mike!
Thanks Tom!
Amazing video as always!
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Excellent video 💯 my friend awesome capture Like 👍🏻 awesome locomotive 😍 my support 💪🏻 Greeting 🙋🏻 from argentina 🇦🇷
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Excellent video, great detail. Still can’t believe the track in Peabody behind Mill Street could handle the load. Thanks!
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I remember when there were a half dozen B&M customers in Newburyport and a daily Salem-Portsmouth train. Up one day, back the next. Well into the 60s. Thanks for the memories.
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That Howley Street "Jungle Shot" at 18:15 is great cinematography.
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I like the Ciment Québec cars. Will they eventually make their way elsewhere or is this their final destination?
They took them up and back as spacers. They weren’t left anywhere.
Thanks for the last piece of history for this line
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Only One thing can be said Absolutely SAD!!!!!
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane ❤😊
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Nice job filming from all those different locations.
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Great video!
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The Peabody of my youth is distant history. Walking the tracks from south peabody to Higgins. Passing through Eastman gelatin. Sometimes hopping the train for a faster trip back home…
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Thank you for posting this!
This is not your average everyday train video. This is... a historical train video.
I still can't believe the North Shore is now abandoned. It pains me this has happened. I felt the same way when the Hampton, NH railroad branch suffered the same fate and has now become a rail trail.
I plan on building a big ho train layout at some point in the future. If I'm able to, I might include a branch line inspired by the North Shore.
Nice video and hope this gets seen for generations.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I’m happy I was able to document this but also sad to see it go.
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Awesome video! Sad to see a line coming to an end. Hopefully it will be put to good use once again, maybe commuter rail?
There’s a proposal to make it a trolley line
Very heart wrenching :( the worries of having a short line RR
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Thank you for preserving the history. I think of how much was lost because it wasn't documented. In order to understand what is and what will be, it is important to understand what once was.
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Awesome yet also sad video 🛤😥
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Great video 👍👍
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The gelatin plant was on the South Reading branch, that actually ran over to Wakefield, merging with the Newburyport branch line where the concrete plant now stands. It was abandoned 'round 1926, and a portion was re-activated when the centennial industrial park along Route 128 was established. Peabody has had its moments of forward thinking. The "T" had a public meeting about possible regional rail to Danvers. They had a really smart planning department, and the concept had a lot of positive feedback from citizens attending, contrary to Danvers, which served up the predictable fusillade of NIMBY drivel talking points born of the fear and loathing of mass transit. Soon after, there was the political will to expedite rail trail construction. Meanwhile, the roads are all clogged.
Trolley or passenger sounds like a nice option.
It would be a shame to waste a perfectly good stretch of track.
I wish the best of luck to anyone who attempts it!
Thanks for watching! It sounds like it may be a state project.
Could they do like what they did with state street in new Haven? Have the commuter lines on the 1-6 tracks and the bike trail on the second floor level? It works well but that is new haven. If this line is smaller it could become a logistical problem.
great video man
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This is sad to see it coming to a final chapter!
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I will miss watching Love Train😢😢
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Thanks for posting this historic video. Sad to see a line die. I do have to say that all of the switching at Rousselot was very confusing. Why all the complicated moves to hook up one car and pull it out. Why did they need a trackmobile? Why did the tank get sandwiched between the cement cars? Just seemed weird but it was important to see..
Thanks for watching! There wasn’t a run around at the end of the line so with one engine they needed the trackmobile to shuffle cars around to the other end. The cement cars were spacers.
How sad. I don’t like seeing railroads shut down. Beautiful scenery
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16:33 Peabody Square with and without the train both lovely, quaint. I like this view, this perspective, over the first pass.
2:55 - 3:15 Chelsea Creek scenic -- superb. A pity this line is toast.
Thank you, South Coast Rail Videos -- a really good show!
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Awesome video. Interesting the crossing signals still turned on even though it was abandoned. Unless it wasn't yet when you filmed it.
Sad day great video bud
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Industrial lines dying is a very sad time. It's getting rarer and rarer. But thank you for documenting this line's last.
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Always a shame to see a line abandoned; wonder if they'll pull up the rails.
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This locomotive belongs in a train museum
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the EMD's have a distinct sound. I worked with the engines even on marine vessels. Even on Vancouver Island we have seen the rail system shutting down, although there is a call to restore it.
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I remember taking greyhound to boston from nyc and seeing the rail yards in worcester lot of train activity where I live in pa there are alot if short lines still used
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sad but thats great they want to propose a trolley line on these tracks
I hope that goes thru
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@@SouthCoastRailVideos yw sad day indeed
I remember you saying in an older video that the plant property could end up being redeveloped. If that’s the case, then it would make sense to keep the tracks and either turn it into a trolley line, or run excursion trains on it.
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Disappointing that it has to go out like this, but that’s the nature of railroading sometimes
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Only in North America. Every other country retains their dormant rail infrastructure as a public investment.
@@northridgewood5918 The uk is the same as North America . Check out a guy called Doctor Beeching . Railway killer
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Sad to see service end but lets hope it doesnt become another rail trail
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Nice and sweet
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What a shame
That’s progress
Bring on the trucks huh
Read the description. No more trucks either because the plant is closing.
Maybe Mass Central can make a go at this line and save it?
Nope
no customers
@@SouthCoastRailVideos It’s a shame. Is that last customer going out of business?
Please just read the description
173 years and now just gone forever…
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Worked for the airline and was there for that shutdown, sorry to see the railways go also.
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That sucks its gone but nice crew to send the train off.
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I'm just curious you dropped off two of those hoppers and you came back with three so how could this be the last run I'm curious they're going to have to go back and pick up those empties once they're empty right
They didn’t drop off anything. They brought up two spacers and brought them back down after picking up the last empty.
Heck @18:20 it looked as if the train was traveling over already abandoned rail!
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I’ve heard that it might be ripped up to be a rail trail, or CSX has some other plans for it, but from now on it’s uncertain and I only hope for the best, just hope them yuppies don’t get their way of a rail trail
Well, they’re going after the active Falmouth freight line. You can almost bet that’s what’s going to happen here.
@@jerrys9226 yeah I’m sick of this bs dude, rail transport is better than done by truck, better for the environment, and a conductor I know even said in 20 years when the economy and environment is screwed up, they’re gonna want to have rail transport again, but hey only time will tell, however about Falmouth I feel as if it’ll stay cause it’s connected to Otis AFB, military needs their shit and won’t have it on the road
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@@bukasbThe concept of rail trails are "so in" at the USDOT... They would rather tear up an existing line because biking "feels good" and is part of their virtue signaling religion. Unless it's high speed rail, don't expect to see much support for even converting an old industrial line into a commuter route to reduce traffic. Besides, everyone "important" telecommutes nowadays.
What horn is that on the loco? Sounds like a K Car Horn from the MBTA
A K3LA or K3L maybe
This is indeed a very sad case. What will become of the people who work on the Pan Am Railway Company?
This is just one line they operate so the crew will be used elsewhere
@@SouthCoastRailVideos That is good news, thank you very much for this provision of the additional information for which we are very grateful.
Sad
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Thanks for recording. Guess the townspeople who fled the suit for noxious odors will now be fully satisfied. Massachusetts will eventually close every single manufacturer in the Commonwealth. In any event, nice historic recording!
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It will become worse. This Administration is so anti business, it is not funny. Even if they used all electric like they did on interurbans of yore, they would still be against it. Rail Trails bring in tons more of "warm fuzzies" and those people are addicted to them.
I can see Railcar Storage on this Railroad in a few month's
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No problem
That is the absolute last place that CSX will use to store cars.
💯💯
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If the plant isn't taking rail shipments anymore, I wonder what happens to the Trackmobile. Edit: and how did the locomotive turn itself around? When it left the plant it was running long hood forward, but at the end it was short hood forward. Did it leave the train on a siding and run around it?
The trackmobile was used to push the cars behind the engine
😢🙏
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Was this a case of CSX not wanting to deal with the small volume?
No, the customer decided to close this plant
Love that they posed for a photo op
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What was in that final car they picked up that needed to be surrounded by the "Ciment" spacers?
Hydrochloric acid looks like.
Yes, acid
Thanks for the documentary. It looks like Pan Am has a darker paint scheme. I recall a lighter blue when I lived in Massachusetts. It's pronounced Pea- buddy....
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Only in massholechusetts is it pronounced as such..."wicked" retahds over there.
Plant could be bought and re-open to rail service ?
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Not if the town and Commonwealth have anything to do with it. They want academics and knowledge workers border to border! 😂
Is the line going to get pulled up or railbanked? I hope it's going to be saved.😔😔
It might become a rail trail
growing up in new england iys upsetting...seeing what has become of the maines centrals mountain division is sickening...miss the trains through vermont into saint Johnsbury...we need more rail traffic...maybe the collapse of yellow freight will help..
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I have a place not far from the Lancaster to St J line and remember trains going down it in the early 90s. Used to be able to follow the progress as the went from the paper mill in Gilman through Concord over to St J just by listening to the whistles. Not much left now but overgrown tracks. I always thought it might make it back but too far gone now ....even salvaging the rails would be too expensive so they are just left to rot
Those EMD machines - they are soft music in my ears! - This machine in partikular sounds ALOT like DSB MZ 1401 (an EMD645E3) actually the last clip, if i closed my eyes i would have mistaken this EMD for MZ 1401
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So are there other customers on this line or will it be removed?
No customers hence why it’s the last run….if the tracks will be removed is yet to be seen.
Any possibility of passenger services?
There’s a proposal to run a trolley on it
What’s going on with the rain in Hyannis MA
What exactly are you asking?
Obviously gelatin production doesn't involve cement, why were those hoppers along for the ride? Was that another customer that was abandoned in the process?
Those two cars were brought up then back down as spacers for the hazmat load.
End of an era. My girlfriend and I used to live in Peabody. At least you know there'll be two (the third is on the way) hobbyists.
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How long is this branch ?
About 3 miles