Bay Colony Millis Line

Update Sat. 20 Aug.

The Spur is clear of cars.

The 1701 in her nest looking for work

Word is 10 loads coming soon...

The 1701 eagerly awaits them...

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Sounds like the 1701 was fired up today!

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Update Sat. 27 Aug.:

NAHX 93593 full
NAHX 93393 full
NAHX 94682 full
NAHX 94349 full
NAHX 93891 full
NAHX 93721 full
NAHX 320319 full
NAHX 94010 full
NAHX 94723 full
NAHX 93428 empty

by Island Road waiting to be unloaded

Update Sat. 03 Sep.

The Spur is clear of cars.

The 1701 in her nest looking for work

Update Sat. 10 Sep.

The Spur is clear of cars.

The 1701 in her nest looking for work

Update Sat. 01 Oct:

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by Island Road waiting to be unloaded

Would have enjoyed to watch the 1701 pushing these (13) into place.

Heard BCLR did some weed-whacking on the line Friday...

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Update Sat. 22 Oct.

The Spur is clear of cars.

The 1701 in her nest looking for work

Wake up the 1701, PAR POSE Wednesday had these cars on the rear end...Probably Millis cars...

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Assuming this edition of POSE/Q427 hit CSX rails at Worcester on Wednesday 10/26, how much time will it take for these cars to arrive at Medfield Jct? My guess is these cars arrive Selkirk sometime on Thursday, dwell for 24 hours, depart sometime on Friday for Framingham on train Q436, get yarded at North Yard Framingham on Saturday, and delivered to Medfield Junction by local B725 by Monday 10/31/16.

These things get dragged all the way to Selkirk for no reason? Why not leave them in Worcester?

Crazy as it seems, it is impractical to set them off in Worcester since its basically an intermodal yard for CSX. If you did, you'd have to have B722 from
Framingham come all the way to Worcester to get them or have the Framingham road freight (Q436?) get them. Just not worth the bother.

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Update Sunday 13 Nov.

NAHX 94682
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NAHX 94010
NAHX 94723
NAHX 93428
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by Island Road waiting to be unloaded

I have some questions which are only tangentially related.

So this stump of the Millis Line between the Framingham Secondary and the end of track (a warehouse just a hair past downtown Millis) is MBTA owned, but Bay Colony has the only freight rights, correct?

What about the other direction from the Framingham Secondary? Towards Needham Jct? The MBTA also owns this, I know. I believe Bay Colony abandoned their rights on the Needham Branch, but do they hold rights in between?

And as for the Framingham Secondary, the MBTA very recently purchased this from CSX, and CSX still retains all rights, but it is Bay Colony which is dispatching the line?

Other than this one cement transload, Bay Colony's only other customers are in Dartmouth, correct? A scrap metal facility and a lumber yard? Does Bay Colony have any freight rights in New Bedford other than accessing the interchange with CSX? It looks like the only customer in New Bedford is in between legs of the wye, where some sort of public dock has reefers spotted on occasion. I assume this is a CSX customer?

Are all those scrap cars I see on Google Maps (3D off, not sure if they're there with 3D on) in the vicinity of the wye in New Bedford all for Bay Colony's scrap metal customer?