by pnolette
Who knows.Maybe we'll see the old B&M interlocking names again..
Peter B&MMEC
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Green Mountain Railroad Corporation ("GMRC"), a Class III common carrier,https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... 306390.pdf
files this verified notice of exemption (the "Notice") pursuant to 49 C.F.R. § 1180.2(d)(7) for
authorization to exercise trackage rights over approximately 61.4 miles of railroad line (the
"Line") of New England Central Railroad, Inc. ("NECR"). The Line is located in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
The proposed trackage rights arrangement is the product of a successful settlement
negotiations among VRS, the State of Vermont, and other parties to the consolidation transaction
proceeding encompassed by, and ultimately approved in, CSX Corp. and CSX Transp. Inc., et al.
- Control and Merger-Pan Am Sys., Inc., et al., FD 36472 (STB served Apr. 14, 2022)
("Decision No. 9").
Sodom, at what was formerly the intersection of Route 1 and Granite Street (you used to be able to hop on I-95 South from here too) is a place name I’ve wondered about for years. Web searches did not help and nobody I’ve asked seemed to know why it was called Sodom.
Now, thanks to the Yarmouth Historical Society, an article by Christopher Hyde in The Notes (1/22/91), and a letter by Sara Fitts Haynes recording a story told by Miss Eugenie Soule, we can all find out.
“Asked if she had ever lived in Sodom, she said tensely, ‘I never lived in Sodom,’ then she said that when the railroad was being put through, immigrant laborers were brought in to dig the road-bed. They lived in camps and small huts around the place they were working; there was drunkenness and violence.
One day some officials of the railroad drove from Portland in their shiny carriage to inspect the work. As they watched the scene before them, one man, at last, exclaimed in horror: ‘I have read of Sodom in the bible – now I have seen it!’”
S1f3432 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:59 pm For Markhb- something to do with those of dubious character....That's amazing... thanks!
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1 ... c8bdb9e800
F74265A wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:17 pm CSX inspection train equipment came east on the B&A today on M436. Rumored to be for a tour of the pan am property.You mean their property? Pan Am doesn't exist anymore...