GP40MC1118 wrote:Braintree - connection to the Greenbush Branch forms a wye.
Middleboro - Middleboro main/Capeway Branch forms a wye.
Walpole - not a wye, but you could turn something via the Lewis Track and
the connection from the Franklin to the Framingham Secondary (but this
would involve CSX).
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boatsmate wrote:I am also not familiar with the North side. I know there is one at North station area, and in Ayer, (PAN AM) are there any others that are owned by the T? or that the T can use??
charding wrote:Being from Walpole and after spending much of my youth at the Walpole Union Station, I don't ever remember seeing any indication of the missing leg of the wye. In fact, I remember seeing engineering diagrams of the track structure around the station and, again, no indication of the missing leg. But I'd be curious if anyone has other information.
diburning wrote:Framingham Station sits in the middle of a wye. Of course, the wye is not owned by the MBTA (CSX), but it deserves a mention.
elecuyer wrote:charding wrote:Being from Walpole and after spending much of my youth at the Walpole Union Station, I don't ever remember seeing any indication of the missing leg of the wye. In fact, I remember seeing engineering diagrams of the track structure around the station and, again, no indication of the missing leg. But I'd be curious if anyone has other information.
I swear I saw a diagram or some map that indicated that there was a southwest leg at Walpole at one time. If so, it must have been very early in its history - like in the early 1900s.
That said, the northeast leg was added later in Walpole's history, probably long after the southwest leg (if it ever existed) was gone. Thus, Walpole was never a grand union.
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