I am searching for information about rail operations in Provincetown, MA. I would like to make contact with someone who has knowledge, either from personal experience, or from ancestors who knew about this subject. I only have a couple of questions left to complete my research, but the answers remain elusive. I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Around 1951, I rode an RDC-1 New Haven fan trip to Ptovincetown, so the track was still in at the time. But regular passenger service was not available, just to Hyannis, where a bus connected to Provincetown. I think our fan-trip car may have been handled on the regular train to Hyannis. At the time, the New Haven was providing regular service, twice on Fridays and Sundays during the summer, to both Hyannis and Woods Hole, the latter connecting to a ferry to Martha's Vinyard Island. One train left South Station and was divided.
Name of the junction please?
The junction itself was just across the Canal bridge from Buzzard's Bay station, before you got to Gray Gables headed toward Wood's Hole for the Steamship Authority. Was it called Canal Junction?
i suspect the RDCs were separated at Buzzards Bay, then.
The tiny Gray Gables station (now moved) built to serve Grover Cleveland's summer White House by the same name (the first) at Agwam Point (Monument Neck).
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
You might have some more luck asking P-Town questions over on the New Haven Forum (www.nhrhta.org).
There is also cab ride color film taken from an RDC of a fan trip in the mid-1950's all the way to P-Town. It was originally packaged as an extra 20-minute addition to the VHS tape, "The New Haven Railroad in the 1950's" (by Greg Scholl). AFAIK, the extra cab ride clip was only ever offered on the VHS tape, and not the DVD. If you search for it, try to find the tape that lasts 80 min., and not the 60 min. regular one.
If you're looking for answers to specific questions, like when the local freight ran in 1955, I can say:BX-21 - Left Hyannis at 8:00AM (Mon. - Wed. - Fri.); Handles Yarmouth, So. Dennis, Norman, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Hastings, Wellfleet, Mooreland, and Provincetown and on return performs work at these stations as necessary.
The above is from the NHRR "Freight Train and Package Car Schedules" 4-24-1955. There was no local freight to P-Town in the Oct. 29, 1961 booklet.
Paul A. Cutler III
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