Readville Yard

Today I was in Readville and saw a large number of Hopper cars in the yard (40 or more). Never saw these before. B731 took 20 west which gave him a total train of about 45 cars. Anyone know where these are going to or from?...

Also saw a Trackmobile switching cars at the former stop and shop facility.

Dennis

Perhaps the hopper cars are used for C&D (construction and demolition) debris? There are a number of such shippers around Boston these days...

C&D moves in gondola cars (i.e. open top with no bottom gates). Maybe salt cars for Taunton?

They were open top with no dump facilities. Could CSX have run out of space for storage at Framingham for the Fitchburg branch customer? I could not tell if they were loads or empty's.

More likely they're for the C&D customers down in Brockton/Taunton.

Could be for Brockton or Taunton but kind of out of the way . B731 was taking them via Walpole.

But even more out of the way for the Leominster customer.

RRCOMM wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:00 am They were open top with no dump facilities. Could CSX have run out of space for storage at Framingham for the Fitchburg branch customer? I could not tell if they were loads or empty's.

If that were the case, I would think they would use the old CP yard (if it were not full of cars being stored) or Nevin's yard, all in Framingham.

The cars for the new Leominster facility are brand new and they would be very obvious.

Some of the cars look like that, some are black but same build. Most Reporting Marks also look the same. Not new but not beat up. I just cannot picture a customer in the Readville area.

I also saw those in Readville and was confused as to why they were there. They were not loaded but it almost seem like storage. They are all gone now, maybe going to Avon/Brockton trash customer? I was very confused to see "trash cars" as I call them in Readville.