The Marblehead Branch of the Boston and Maine

[JCitron]

My mom used to take the train on this branch to visit her grandparents. She remembered there being a pot belly stove in the station and the old wooden coaches having velvet seats. She rode the trains until the end of service in 1956.

I looked into building this branch once in Trainz but I never got around to it. It's not very long and had a unique set up around the station with a wye to turn the trains around along with some freight in Marblehead.

Ah, someday maybe.

 

[TSwenson]

Ah, someday maybe.

That is Schrödinger's statement for Trainz routes...

If you look at the statistics, 7 baseboards gets you just over 3 miles, figuring on 3 baseboards surrounding the line gets you 91 baseboards, while a 2 board buffer get 55. Certainly a doable project, just needing some... motivation.

My mother would take the train to Keene, NH (and Troy as well) to visit relatives in '40's-'50's, and when she worked in Boston in the '90's she was taking the train in... not a railfan, but someone who enjoyed train travel.

 

[JCitron]

That is Schrödinger's statement for Trainz routes...

If you look at the statistics, 7 baseboards gets you just over 3 miles, figuring on 3 baseboards surrounding the line gets you 91 baseboards, while a 2 board buffer get 55. Certainly a doable project, just needing some... motivation.

My mother would take the train to Keene, NH (and Troy as well) to visit relatives in '40's-'50's, and when she worked in Boston in the '90's she was taking the train in... not a railfan, but someone who enjoyed train travel.

Well, it hasn't happened yet. I looked at the project not long ago and put it away again. The DEM is really filled in making the terrain difficult to work with. This is a big issue with Eastern Mass. routes for some reason. The other problem is the land around where the station and the route has changed thanks to redevelopment filling in the cut in some places.

The old Cheshire line was a foolish rip up that New Hampshire could have preserved if they let the new Green Mountain Railway run the trains on it, but nope they let it go. Before that, Blount was all set to set up Steam Town in Keene and run passenger trains along the line, but nope they fought that too.

My mum was the same; not a railfan but like riding.