Yellowspoon wrote:Slightly off topic: Are the tracks between Buzzards Bay and Woods Hole still usable?
I was under the impression that these tracks had been abandoned long ago and had been turned into a walking/bike path.
My daughter went to visit a friend who rented a house about a mile from the RR bridge in Monument Beach, about 100 yards from the tracks. My daughter swore she saw a train go by with passengers eating dinner. The Cape Cod dinner trains shows a route from Hyannis to Buzzards Bay, but nothing in the direction of Woods Hole. It would seem like a lot of work to use those tracks as the bridge must be down in order to use them (because the switch is so close to the bridge)
Bill Reidy wrote:Hi Noel,
You are correct -- the federal government owns the rail spur from North Falmouth onto Joint Base Cape Cod. The bikeway advocates are trying to block the transfer station on the base from reopening, as they don't want to see any rail traffic return to the rail line between the canal and North Falmouth. If they're successful, they'll then turn their efforts against Joint Base Cape Cod leadership's desire to keep the rail line in place for military use.
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