Boston Sand and Gravel. Loads in empties out.

[JCitron]

Boston Sand and Gravel Co. provides concrete for much of the greater Boston area and has been doing so for quite some time.

They are owned and operated by the New Hampshire North Coast Railroad who provides the sand and gravel from its operations in New Hampshire.

The company was once owned by the Boston and Maine and, contrary to what the video says, Guilford had to divest from the operations due to FRA regulations. Instead of abandoning the operation, NHN took over and has been operating the sand and gravel pits and the distribution in Boston ever since.

From an operations standpoint this is the classic loads out empties in, and loads in and empties out kind of operation that would work well for a model railroad or even a route.

 

[TSwenson]

That's a NHN crew to Dover (NH), and (now) a CSX crew in to Boston.... in the Pan AM/Guilford days it was, and sometimes still is, called DOBO (DOver to BOston).

 

[marmalade32]

Passed by this area many times by car or rail when I'm in mass.

 

[JCitron]

Passed by this area many times by car or rail when I'm in mass.

Me too. I used to see a B&M switcher instead of a front-end loader pull the hoppers when I used to take the Budd Liners into North Station when I was a kid. That was when there was a big yard too in Somerville.

 

[JCitron]

That's a NHN crew to Dover (NH), and (now) a CSX crew in to Boston.... in the Pan AM/Guilford days it was, and sometimes still is, called DOBO (DOver to BOston).

You brought back some memories.

The old route names made a lot of sense. LAED for LAwrence to East Deerfield, or LASA for LAwrence to SAlem. There were once a lot of freights dispatched out of Lawrence back then and to and from Salem. Today, Lawrence handles whatever freight is left in Woburn and Winchester since the old Stoneham industrial track is gone and so is Quebic Cement in Woburn.

 

[OddRails]

I always appreciate when railroads use train symbols containing letters indicating the origination and destination places.
Can't imagine how much material the Big Dig project was using each day.

 

[marmalade32]

Me too. I used to see a B&M switcher instead of a front-end loader pull the hoppers when I used to take the Budd Liners into North Station when I was a kid. That was when there was a big yard too in Somerville.

Pretty sure two of those sit in a yard in mass.

 

[JCitron]

Pretty sure two of those sit in a yard in mass.

Sadly, I doubt it. They were probably old Alcos or GM1s that the B&M used all over the place for switching.