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Next up on this fabulous day trackside with some great friends from New Jersey and Virginia was CSXT train M426, the daily Selkirk to Rigby manifest seen here at about MP 118.9 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the once and forever Boston and Albany Mainline. A trio of big GEs rumble east over the once double tracked 300 ft long deck girder bridge across the Middle Branch of the Westfield River just above its confluence with the West Branch.

The Western Railroad of Massachusetts opened this segment of railroad for business in 1841, and pushing two centuries later the route not only survives but reigns supreme as the busiest and only Class 1 trunk line into New England. The Boston and Albany Railroad was formed in 1870 when the companies to the east and west were merged into one railroad linking its two namesake cities. Despite being leased by the New York Central in 1900 the B&A name survived for another half century. The NYC itself would become the Penn Central in 1968 and the line would pass to Conrail in 1976 and become the property of its current owner, CSXT, in 1999.

Huntington, Massachusetts
Thursday January 3, 2025

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