GUILFORD RAIL SYSTEM

... in action

GRS #207 heads down to the Ford unloading facility at Ayer MA with a string of autoracks filled with new cars (facility out of service as of 3/4/07)

A switch is thrown and GP9 #77 makes a move at East Deerfield yard while an empty NS coal train heads out towards the Hoosac Tunnel

GRS #376 leads a freight west through the infamous

Willows Crossing

Widecab #504 leads a smokey westbound intermodal through Shirley MA

GRS/D&H engine #573 with SOO boxcars, early 1980s

photo by Eric/Todd Larsen

Amtrak's Downeaster meets Guilford at Rigby Yard in Maine

Rare ex-Sante Fe SD26 #619 waits by the New England Milling complex

#354 at the beginning of the wye heading down into Hill Yard in Ayer MA

#351 and its train wait by the New England Milling loop while a CSX freight stops to have its EOTD checked out

#216 and GP9 #51 switch over the bridge located at the east end of East Deerfield yard

Guilford's East Deerfield yard often hosts foreign power.  Here we see two Canadian Pacific units

#215 leads a train off of the Conn. River Line, into East Deerfield yard

Sometimes a freight will pause at the old B&M tower at Ayer MA, as we see here with #519 in the lead. 

Here we see EDWA paused, this time with an MBTA commuter train at the station.  

Bow NH coal train smokes as it begins its trip out of Ayer MA (7/2/05)

Intermodal train MOAY backs into Guilford's Hill Yard in Ayer MA (4/3/05)

Westbound intermodal AYMO (Ayer to Mohawk Yard) smokes it up through Shirley MA (5/28/05)

Train RURJ at Graniteville, MA (12/17/06)