MaineCoonCat wrote:F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:MaineCoonCat wrote:Trainman101 wrote:Is bay colony independent or does some other railroad own it?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know, it's part of the same outfit as Seminole Gulf in Florida..
Yup...subsidiary of. The loco livery is a dead giveaway.
Any idea why BC seems to be a "stealth arm" of the company? There's no mention of any New England op's whatsoever on the Seminole Gulf website anymore.. I fear it doesn't augur well for the future.. Please tell me I'm wrong.
BC used to be so much bigger. Newton till '05, & West Roxbury to mid-90's. Cape trash train till they got outbid on the contract renewal by Mass Coastal in '08, and the South Dennis stub before it got cut back late-80's. Plymouth Line & Hanover Branch out of Braintree interchange to late-90's. They had Greenbush Line to the Cohasset military spur till '84. They had the Framingham & Lowell till '90 thereabouts. Used to have more of the Wattupa Branch west of Mid-City Scrap.
Until they lost the Cape contract they had the most route miles of any MA shortline...only CSX, PAR, P&W, and NECR had more. Now they have the fewest miles of any carrier excluding CSOR which just pokes across the CT state line at north tip of the Springfield Line. Complete 180 in fortunes.