Was this line ever considered for sale to a shortline operator back in the PC/CR days like a lot of eastern MA branch lines were? Wondering if the threat of a short line interchanging in Clinton with B&M that kept this line in CR possesion to keep with the captive traffic philosophy?
fogg1703 wrote:Was this line ever considered for sale to a shortline operator back in the PC/CR days like a lot of eastern MA branch lines were? Wondering if the threat of a short line interchanging in Clinton with B&M that kept this line in CR possesion to keep with the captive traffic philosophy?Didn't stop Conrail from dishing off the Framingham & Lowell north of South Sudbury to Bay Colony. That line crossed the Fitchburg main in West Acton until BC's portion of it went kaput in '92.
I think the Fitchburg Sec. had steady enough business for them to hold on to.