Abandoned industrial railroad track restored to operation - Taunton, MA - 2023
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2023
- In 2023 it is great to see a previously severed and long unused industrial track rebuilt for a new customer and that's exactly what happened in Taunton, MA. A section of the Myles Standish Industrial Track was put out of use when the customer at the end of track closed about 30 years ago and was later severed when the John Hancock Rd. crossing was removed. Fast forward to 2022 and the track was cleared to be restored to the customer at the end of the spur. Track rebuilding followed and in Spring 2023 the first train delivered to the new customer, Musket Corp. This video shows the track before, some progress shots, and then trains using the track.
Taunton, MA
2022-2023
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Its always great to see old track being put back to use and not rotting away!
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I wish they would run tracks back into my town again here in southwest TN. It was early 1980 the last train I watched go thru here then the pulled the tracks.
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I love the smell of fresh ties and the crunch of clean ballast in the morning!
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Great to see old abandoned rail service restored for service . Way too many tracks have been removed when there are customers that really need rail car access . A friend of mine had to go through a bunch of stuff to get rail service restored . It cost him quite a bit but it'll pay for itself in a very short time period . He was so happy when he got his first car spotted . Very good video .
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Im wanting to know what that process is to getting rail service
Where is he located
Glad to see the line survives! Far too many lines are lost now days and never return
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True. My dad said that someone wanted to reactivate a 4 mile line to provide jobs to a depressed small town in western PA, but NIMBYs said no. The plant would've produced up to 400 jobs, but they needed the rail to ship out oversized equipment. The 400 jobs went to North Carolina.
@@AidenSexsmith,. nothing like shooting yourself in the foot to get your way! The area close to me is known tourist trap area and MANY major businesses have refused to locate here because of the fear local a-holes have of disturbing the mentally challenged tourists that come here. Sadly, the area gets the dregs nobody else will take.
Graceful giants.
Good to see a restoration. It is so hard, if not impossible, to get new right of ways.
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Glad to see lines coming back to life in the future even more.
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Wonderful before and after ! Thank you.
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I'd walk a Myle for a Standish. Seriously, rail delivery of freight in the modern age is the correct way to go. Excellent restoration project. We need far more of this.
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Wonderful to see this old track being restored to use!
All railway lines should be kept clear when the railroad company abandons them. Too many of them are redeveloped as trails or worse sold off to adjacent properties or developers losing the possibility to restore rail service in the future.
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Good idea! Who is going to pay to keep the right of way clear when it’s not generating any revenue? The railroad? They’re in business to make money, not to burn it.
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Rail trails fulfill that exact purpose
@@douglasskaalrud6865 usually for rail trails some government agency takes over
This shows how much can be done when there is a will to do it.
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and the money 😉
@@jim2lane yes
The Grafton and Upton Railroad appears to be one such case. Sometime later, I would like to go out to downtown Milford, MA and check out the new connection between the G&U RR and the CSX's Milford Running Track at South Cedar Street. So far, using Google's Earth street view feature, I am able to see a partially finished connection at this location. (Strange as it may seem Earth's sky view feature, taken back in 2013, still shows the remnant rails in the S. Cedar Street's grade crossing from the former connection. This sky view photohas yet to be updated!)
They did an amazing job , it's good to see o l lines in use again
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Rare your gonna find any industrial rail like this brought back but when it is man is it nice to see!
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Great to see old lines put back in service too many have been lost
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Very cool. Thanks for posting. It was very active there in the late 80’s early 90’s when Raytheon was in the park and manufactured the communication vans and hummer “campers” for the Army. I lived across the highway on the lake before any of this was built. Old enough to have seen trains on the Fall River line in Mansfield before it became a walking trail.
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Always nice to see a railroad come back to life. I enjoy industrial switching and branch lines.
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That's freakin awesome! Never thought I'd see the days in today's track infrastructure in Mass for anything abandoned to be rebuilt. Would love to see the other side of MA's decommissioned track from Lowell to Nashua and beyond back in operation, possibly reviving the Lowell line that used to operate into Manchester.
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Trails-to-Rails!
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I love seeing spurs and rail lines being restored and put back in service. Great video of the restoration process!
My favorite videos! Old abandoned lines brought back to life! Thanks!
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Did they re-use some of the old rail? How cool is that! Sweet video: thanks for uploading
Yup, some of the old rail was reused. Thanks for watching!
great job showing both old and new, thank you!
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Excellent. Plus, it's nice to hear that legendary EMD645. 👏
SO its therefore it sounds so d... much like DSB MZ 1401 (has a EMD645E3)
Great Video & always glad to see old abandoned track turned back into active rail, what will these rail serve, new plants?
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Awesome train 🚆 video.😊
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I actually live in this town! Awesome to see this railroad back up and running
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This is really cool! Good to see the right thing happening. I've come across this spur on google maps before - and I remember being disappointed that the line had been severed at the crossing, making an overall abandonment and tearing up much more likely - I would never have assumed that a business might take on the endeavour of bringing the spur back to life! Well done, Musket Corp.!
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@@SouthCoastRailVideos Thanks for creating! 🥰 I think that's the real effort here 😜
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Wow thank you!
Your welcome
Someone came up with the idea of rails to trail for Saluda grade. That is crazy to ride a bike or walk a 5% grade. There were many accidents before Southern railway built the two runway tracks at sand cut and Melrose junction .
I recently saw the condition of the tracks on Saluda Grade using Google's Earth feature. The roadbed did appear to be in very sad shape. Spotted many washouts along the way.
Great vid!
I really enjoy old rails being put back to life
Great ghost town shots are great.
This is not as bad as the Saluda grade. NS has abandoned the entire railroad line almost to past the town of Saluda almost to Henderson, NC.
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top acompanhamos está página aqui no Brasil somos fans ferroviários
I hope heaven has alot for railroad tracks😊
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Excellent! 🚂👍🏽❤️!
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Beautiful.
It's really nice to see railroad service being restored somewhere.
That brings a glimmer of hope for a unique form of transportation some people take for granted nowadays. I mean, trains are more fuel-efficient than tractor-trailer trucks, free up highway space, and carry more cargo. Yes, maintaining and operating a railroad is expensive, but it can pay for itself and give rail fans a nice show.
Excellent to see, awesome video! 😄😄
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I would love to see trains come back to New England.
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Awesome Video!!!
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The old New Haven lives on !!! 👍
excellent documentation
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Very good idea!
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Didnt you have this video posted a year ago? I love your videos and I'd love to see more railroads reactivated. What customers will it be for? Will it be hopper cars, boxcars, center beams? On my model railroad, I have a railroad MOW crew rebuilding an abandoned section...
This is a compilation
@@SouthCoastRailVideos Just wondering! Great videos you have...I wish more railroads would be reactivated. Save the Falmouth branch.
> What customers will it be for?
Musket Corp., a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) terminal. DEF is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. Tanker Cars.
39:25 is neat! Abd, outstanding video!!! 👍
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GEEZ! Easy on the zoom, there!
GEEZ don’t watch it then
THE 6218 locomotive is the same number as on the last CANADIAN NATIONAL RR active steam locomotive a northern type 4 8 4 great video love spur line action
Very cool. Wish you had caught some of the actual construction. Three locomotives to deliver one tank car? Some very long railroad ties in places!
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Great job!
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It looks like they will have to do some more work on that track. It looks pretty "iffy" right now. They need to bring in a tamper and a regulator again.
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This would be great to model in HO or N on a shelf. Small runaround, street crossing, single switchback siding, rail-served customer...
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Great timeline. Thx for showing before and after.
What is the commodity in the cars?
Urea
For DEF(diesel exhaust fluid)
Hoping those crossing signals are working now.
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Haven’t been there to look but has the second spur been worked in yet that ran off the runaround? I think you mentioned it also was being worked on. I know a rail had been removed but the switch was still intact that went to it
I haven’t seen anything since a section was cleared
Good to see line working again...but from a UK PoV, isn't having 3 locos hauling one tanker a bit uneconomical/environmental?
They have larger trains to haul after switching this customer. They cut away from those cars to serve the industry.
Rails are back to work thankfully there is a need n damand. Trains 🛤are better than trucks 🚚 😌 true. Right to your manufacturing back 😊🚪 . Awesome
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Watching your videos makes me sad in a way since so much rail history in my region has either been ripped up and gone forever or paved over. What used to be an easy dozen or so railroads is a small fraction now
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3 locos for 2 tank cars seems a bit of an overkill in my eyes Where have all the RS 1's gone when they're sooooo needed again, but it's good to see old lines rebuilt and back in service again. 😄
Heck, an ALCo S-2 could handle it just as well.
These engines cut off from a larger train and other duties to serve this customer. No need to bring your whole consist to the end of an industrial track to drop off a few cars.
My dad was born in Taunton.. 1919.
That CSX three car local was just a bit "underpowered" Huh with three GP40-2 and 9,000 HP !! 😉
You must be the only Railfan in the area, I'm amazed with new track opened !!! 🤔
This looked like a practice run to learn the switching ??
My thoughts as well - training
Not training or a practice run at all. That was the first revenue move.
@@SouthCoastRailVideos Okay it looked like they put the cars in and then out. Was this different days also ?
That was a compilation of different days
@@SouthCoastRailVideos Ahh thank you, I believe that was the confusion some of us had 👍
Hopefully more businesses will use it? i mean i'm glad it's restored, but for that money there has to be more than just one(hopefully)
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What is in the tankers ? The information on the website says they deal in ethanol and diesel and other products
Urea
I’m guessing CSX is serving a fertilizer company? Someone previously mentioned Urea in the tanks? Just curious. Nice video, very interesting.
Urea for DEF
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Why did they use 3 locos to move one tank car? Good video. I liked when the ground shook your camera.
They cut off from their other cars to switch this customer. At times this train does need a lot of power to pull long cuts of loaded demo cars.
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Local trains deliver an pick up cars on it route it may have several cars before it gets to its yard
The track is great but what’s going on with the back and forth of the tanker wagons?
That was the railroad switching out the customer
I love too see that, I worked for CSX , that's why I say don't rip them up
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That must be one heavy tank car
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Where is the connection with the main line located, how far from this location ?
They restored 2000 feet end to end plus run around track and the customer spur but the connection to the main is about 1.5 miles down. The rest of the industrial track was in service.
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I wonder, why three locomotives had to be used for this shunting duty. I believe that one would be enough.
These same engines serve other customers and pull cars before and after serving this customer. No need to lug the other cars around when switching.
That industrial park was an Italian prisoner of war camp during WW 2. They used to bring the prisoners in by rail.
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Seems like a huge investment with ties, rail, switches and crossing signaling for just a few cars.
Unless Musket paid the bill for that I don't see how CSX is going to make a reasonable return on investment. Maybe the traffic will ramp up.
Great job of showing before and after.
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I believe the customer always pays the rehab bill for their spur and siding. They are receiving Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. In that, I am sure, your tax dollars, either from the State or Fed, were used since this is a GREEN initiative.
Interesting. If the company paid for the reconstructing the siding into their business, do you think CSX paid to rehab the line leading into the siding? Would that include the signaling at the crossing?
Can any of the old rail be used albeit on new ties or is it all new rail??
Some of the old was used
Hello and I'm going to that place that they make and what function do those trains fulfill?
They transport freight
@@SouthCoastRailVideos and what load?
I'm wondering why the street rails were gone, likely highway construction, BUT in my town, the Sacramento Northern long gone of their interurban service to Oroville since the forties I believe, on East Gridley road those tracks stayed until a road project took them up recently, viewable on Google earth...from the 2013 road series...
CSX is doing a good job.
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You need three locomotives for one tank car unbelievable
They cut off from the rest of their train to switch this customer. They then went back to their heavy cut of loaded construction debris cars.
Surprised they didn't install welded rail
That’s unnecessary for an industrial track
in Poland, since 1945, 1,500 kilometers of narrow-gauge and standard-gauge railway tracks have been liquidated now the routes are being rebuilt again old railway viaducts and embankments are being renovated new electric and hydrogen diesel locomotives are being purchased zero emission environmental protection
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Boy they have you Europeans brainwashed on the enviro activism, soon all of Europe will collapse over that nonsense.
I wish they did that for the Adirondack RR between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid but due to influential rich people who didn't want the "Peasants" riding trains through "their woods", they got the politicians to abandon this historical corridor for a "trail". Eventually it will not be maintained and go back to nothing and They will be "left alone" to rule from their "Castles".
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3 locomotives to move a few tank cars? What did I miss?
Why the use of a flagman at the intersection when there are lights there?
The lights were not in service at the time
Three engines for main line local?
They have a number of customers this same train serves but they cut off from their other cars to serve this customer
can someone tell me why is there a need for 3 locomotives to pull one tank car?
They cut off from their other cars to switch this customer. At times this train does need a lot of power to pull long cuts of loaded demo cars.
Why was the crossing not on?
It had not been placed in service yet
One could see that the flashing lights were "bagged over," using a black plastic wrap covering over them. When they are ready to put the flashers into service, the bagging material will be removed.
Using 3 GP40-2 locomotives (over 9000 hp) to move just one or two freight cars seems like overkill and a massively overpowered train. Is this the result of poor management or are those four tankers deceivingly heavy? Perhaps 300 ton loads each for a total of 12000 tons? At least then it justifies the 3 locomotives attached.
These engines cut off from a larger train and other duties to serve this customer. No need to bring your whole consist to the end of an industrial track to drop off a few cars.
Very few pics of rail crossing and track construction???????
This wasn’t a step by step video. It was to show a before and after.
I’m amazed that csx is putting money into this kind of stuff. All I keep hearing is how they’ve blown off small customers and pushed them to trucks in my area. It’s nice to see the opposite happening.
I live in Wisconsin... There was a line that I believe at one time was the old Milwaukee road... Anyway, that line is gone, and it was made into a bike trail none of them seem to want to use!!! Anyone that drives knows what I mean too... It's a shame, because there are towns dying without the rail service, and tons of new companys that want, and need it, but politics are leaving it a perfectly good corridor, in favor of bicycles and fucking dog walkers...
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Three locomotives to shuttle one car? Isnt that inneficient? At 30:24 the three locos became one.
This is a compilation of different days and different trains
You need to add audio commentary
The video speaks for itself
They never get those signals workin'?
They were not in service at the time.
This is one of the few times that a class 1 buying a regional railroad is better.
They didn’t buy a regional railroad to do this
cant believe they using 3 loco's for industry switching. 1 or 2 loco's if on a way freight, but on industry work, just one is needed
They cut away from a longer consist to handle this customer.
@@SouthCoastRailVideos That may be so, but industry switching is either done by a local yard or a way freight with one or possibly two locos. You dont want every train picking up or setting out cars, thus tying up the main lines.
For instance We would get our train at St.Paul MN and drop the train at Glenwood yard but we did not stop to pickup cars enroute, that was the way freights job.
If a train was getting close to where the way freight was going to do some switching, the dispatcher would have them pull into a siding so the other train/s can pass first. then the way freight can do their job.
This is a local running without other traffic nearby. They handle all the customers in this stretch which uses a lot of power. Infact they tend to handle a dozen or more loaded demolition cars per trip from just one customer not far from this scene.
i thought this was in taunton,uk where i live
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someone has a lot of fun with camera panning and zooming in and out, which is tiring.
Unfortunate!
Who pays for this to be reconnected and fixed? The new customer? Local government? Csx? I’m guessing it depends on who owns that area? I think my local city government owns the spur that goes through my town. I wonder if they pay for the upkeep, though csx delivers on it, and still just to a single customer for about 1.5 miles of track.
It always depends. In this case I believe it was at least partially paid for by the customer.
Why do they use 3 powerful engines to shunt only one or two trucks? That cannot make money, can it?
They have other work to do before and after switching this customer. There’s no point in going this far with the rest of their train either.
Makes sense, many thanks for your kind reply.