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After my slideshow at the Amherst Railway Society, I decided to spend the night up in Amherst instead of driving home in the wee hours. \u00a0And since I was taking Wednesday off from work as well, I figured I could take a ride over to North Grafton, MA and see a friend of mine that I haven’t seen in a while. \u00a0The nice weather also helped my decision to head east on the Mass Pike instead of south towards home.<\/p>\n
After a nice breakfast at the bed & breakfast I stayed at in Amherst, I headed south towards Palmer where I’d pick up the Pike heading east towards Worcester. \u00a0At that time the fog was quite thick, and there was a slight overcast in the skies above. \u00a0But by the time I got into the area of Worcester, the fog was gone and the skies were a nice blue, with some\u00a0wispy\u00a0cirrus\u00a0clouds\u00a0floating\u00a0along. \u00a0After getting off of the Pike, I made my way up to North Grafton where the Grafton & Upton Railroad’s crew base is located.<\/p>\n
When I got there the Operations Manager, Tony, was looking over their newest acquisition – a former CN\/GTW GP9 – continuing the slow process of painting the engine into the G&U’s black & yellow scheme. \u00a0I’ve known Tony for quite a few years both through the CERM as well as when he worked at the Connecticut Southern Railroad. \u00a0I haven’t had a chance to meet up with him since he left the CSO a few years back, so I figured that a run by while I was in the area was in order.<\/p>\n
We chatted for a while, and he gave me the tour of the grounds and equipment up there, including their beautifully restored center cupola caboose. \u00a0After the tour & BSing, he got back to work masking out the geep’s nose and pilot for the black zebra stripes. \u00a0While he was doing that, I wandered around the grounds and got a series of shots of the equipment in the yard.<\/p>\n
Next they fired up the EMD CF7 because they had to head down the tracks a bit (maybe 3\/4 of a mile) to switch out a customer – Washington Mills. \u00a0So I rode along with them to check things out, and of course get a few shots along the way.<\/p>\n
After that, it was lunchtime and they were wrapping things up – so we bid farewell and I headed home for the day. \u00a0Not a bad way to spend the morning – on what Tony calls the “shortest shortline in America”. \u00a0I’ll be back, though…<\/p>\n[cpg_album:791]\n
Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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