Hello, SwSat crew! Your Yardmaster is late to the party due to attending the Springfield show (great, got a new switcher, will post next Sat) but - hopefully - better late than never!
Last Saturday Arnold and I talked about mixed trains, so I thought one would be a good subject for today’s post. B&M RS3 no. 1509 is seen with a mixed train on the B&M Central Mass branch, near the village of Oakdale, in West Boylston, MA.
The predecessor to B&M on this branch was the Central Mass RR. This line was expected to be a major East/West artery from Boston by its founders in the 1870’s, but was doomed to failure by existing East/West competition; B&A to the South and the Fitchburg RR (later a B&M branch) to the North. Today, much of the old branch is a popular rail trail.
John
