http://youtu.be/KFv342PGn8g
There's lots of car kicking and riding as the crew switches the various industries and the Salem yard during the 1990s. This area is a shadow of what was once here, and today this is even more reduced. The Salem yard is now a big wasted field with buried tracks. There is a scrap paper company on a short lead. The old tracks around Danvers are there, but are slated for removal to make a bike trail. People fought to keep the rails and even put in passenger service, but the trail makers won with lots of help of the NIMBYs that have moved in from elsewhere. The Kodak plant still exists, however, the existing trackage east of there, where the boxcars went, is not used. Guilford went through great trouble to discourage any service to these warehouses so now, like a lot of the other tracks in the area, are all rusted and treed over.
It's interesting though to see the crew kick the cars and use the hand brake to control the speed as they rolled the cars into the sidings.
John
There's lots of car kicking and riding as the crew switches the various industries and the Salem yard during the 1990s. This area is a shadow of what was once here, and today this is even more reduced. The Salem yard is now a big wasted field with buried tracks. There is a scrap paper company on a short lead. The old tracks around Danvers are there, but are slated for removal to make a bike trail. People fought to keep the rails and even put in passenger service, but the trail makers won with lots of help of the NIMBYs that have moved in from elsewhere. The Kodak plant still exists, however, the existing trackage east of there, where the boxcars went, is not used. Guilford went through great trouble to discourage any service to these warehouses so now, like a lot of the other tracks in the area, are all rusted and treed over.
It's interesting though to see the crew kick the cars and use the hand brake to control the speed as they rolled the cars into the sidings.
John