+DroverChicago I grew up right down the street from this place; we used to skate through here all the time. I was lucky enough to see this train many, many times when I lived in Peabody. Great video!
My daughter bought a house built during the Railroad Era in Maryland and remodeled it back to the original. They do have all the necessities and yet, it is 'simply' beautiful. The front door is 20 feet from the tracks.
I googled mapped Peabody, MA and I saw a lot of tracks that ended at factories. I still haven't located the interchange. I also saw Peabody as a nice city.
Peabody was an intersection for four railroads that served the industries in the area. As the industries left the rail lines became inactive then the state bought them to covert to rail trails. This is the last active ROW in the city.
Actually it pulled out from behind 10 Lowell St (the pizza and pub building), and it's still there. They did, however, move the statue/monument in 2016, it's now on the other side of the rails. Maybe that's what threw you off? It got me too.
Looks like a restaurant first thought it was a house until I notice the trays and chairs and I think that is the first time I seen a train so close to a building
Imagine running out the house, late to work and you run smack into the side of this. In fact, forget that, stick your hand out and grab on to the handle. Express commute!
,,, i remember the episode where the engines or one engine comes to Sir Topham Hatt's house. Sawdust gets all over their breakfast, LOL. It's on TH-cam probably
The jerk in the dark Chevy Tahoe, enters the tracks as the train is approaching and pulls right out in front of the train. It's hard to tell, but it looks like the flagman made The Tahoe backup. Then after the train passes the Tahoe pulls onto the tracks again, where it's obvious traffic is not clear in front of him and sits right on the tracks. Looks like he's trying to be a statistic!
The train is restricted to 10 mph here... although it HAS hit things that people have left on the tracks, like trucks and dumpsters, etc. You're right about it being a food joint... it's a pizza place and sub shop... but the train tracks have been there for about a century longer than the building has!
when I was growing up in upstate NY east of Rochester there was a single track RR running through the dairy farm and front yard of the farm i lived on. the tracks were about 70-80 ft. from the house. We use to have to wait for trains to get out of the driveway sometimes. Part of the NY Central West Shore line. Well what a thrill for a youngster. The black, grey and white F7's (i would guess) and the bright turquoise green cabooses are tattooed in my brain. In the summer evenings the family would eat dinner outside on the front terrace and if a train would roll through me and my 2 sisters would run down track side to wait for the caboose as the conductor would throw candy...usually Lifesavers...out the window to us. And at night time the trains would shake us out of bed...but that was a sign all is well in the world. Then one summer evening in 1961 i think, a lone diesel pulling a very old steam locomotive stopped at our house. They were pulling that locomotive to the Smithsonian Institute. Must have had some significance but I was too young to know or care. the family got to climb on to both engines for a small "tour". It turns out that that particular 2 engine train was to be the last on that railroad. A few days later some heavy equipment came through and ripped out all the track and ties and in a matter of hours that particular railroad was gone off the face of the earth. I still live here and still find traces of that great part of my life in the form of railroad rail plates and spikes and occasionally a blue green glass insulator from the telephone poles that followed that line. Some of them are dated from the 1880's and I have one from 1830's. God I miss those days...such a simpler happier time.....
Nothing like enjoying a few drinks at the club and passing out backwards on your chair onto the tracks in the early AM.... Waking up to that would change your mind in a heartbeat.
We have a remnant of an old NYC branch here that sees maybe one train a week and the crossings are protected by the city police. It serves one lone customer that gets in plastic pellets.
I always thought they were abandoned too as I worked near them on foster st from 2014 to march 2020 and never saw a train. Was walking by them today while waiting to have tires mounted and noticed evidence of a train having been through since last week's snowstorm.
Dr. Mike Zahalsky I live within walking distance of there and it goes through twice a week so the chances of seeing it are more like getting a toddler into daycare
We have a similar stretch of track here in Olympia, WA. It runs right down one of our downtown streets. Trains are very rare. I've only heard them from my apartment several blocks away. Never actually seen a train on those tracks.
I've never seen a train that close to a building! I was holding my breath when it started moving through that crossing. It truly seems out of place to run through town as it did.
great video. Who is the dolt in the black Chevrolet Tahoe who just cannot seem to STAY OFF the tracks? Sure the train had passed but you NEVER stop or park on railroad tracks! EVER!
actually a lot of people don't realize it is an active line since there are no signal lights at the intersection and the trains pass maybe once a week.
where i live, a stone quarry runs a train across a street. it has modern , automatic, lights and crossing gates. recently, they had to add "do not stop on tracks" signs because construction was causing the traffic to back up ,and people are getting dumber.
Thanks for posting! I haven't seen a train go by there in forever! Can't wait to show my son this...he asks all the time where the train is and i also thought they were abandoned
1952. Lexington, Mass. When you walked just past the trashcans, there was the railroad track. The school forbade kids from walking on the track to school. We always did because it was more dangerous than walking along what we called The East-West Highway. Loved the coal engine locomotives.
I hope this is a rarely used line. I don't see crossing gates or even lights anywhere! Surprised this is the case so close to Boston. I did google map this location, you can find it yourself by searching for Down Town Pizza in Peabody. It is baffling the way this line is moves through the rest of this town in a logical fashion, but right here it crosses two main thoroughfares--on a curve no less. Must have something to do with the way the town grew around the railroad line.
Reminds me of the now long gone (PC abandoned them in 1973) NYC Louisville branch in Westport, Indiana the tracks went right through downtown in between two buildings in a very tight clearance...
Hello from France ! Yes, nice video. I looked for this track in Google Maps, and I saw that the track is exempt some miles further, on the photos you can see the jucntion for the factory, from where the trains turn back. At some place, at a railroad crossing, some little wood houses are very close to the track, funny. Nice town, Peobody.
The local Abilene, Texas, switching company has a lot to learn from you guys using the flagman at the intersections. None of their crossing lights work and they frequently enter the roadway without warning. There have been several near misses and we have been lucky that no one has been hurt so far.
That's pretty cool man. I live in the Bronx and we have the Metro North line running behind us. Train buffs are always behind our building railfanning. The children get a kick out of it.
Mr. Signal Hill- not too bad with an Apple 4. I could feel the excitement. However, your written description gets five stars brother. SUPERBLY COMPOSED! WP FAN in Northern California
The trains always come through Peabody square very slowly… my whole family is from Peabody, it’s the only city square I’ve ever known that has not one but 2 RR crossings through it. They used to go to Eastman Gelatin (Kodak) also in Peabody, but I’m not sure where freights would be going now.
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What a great way to bring everything to a halt yet remind folk that life goes on for other people too! I know what I mean even if nobody else does…lol 🚈🚂🚂
Jacob Hill given standardized sizes of railcaahs and geometry, the railroad can maak exactly how much room the train needs, and then a maagen of errah of a few inches or so. Fahgive my bahstan accent.
@Tcostello105 Thanks! This is actually one of the three switchers based out of Lawrence (I believe this one is LA-2), and it usually hits Peabody like, once a week.
Imagin that it would be a steam engine going through that town and right beside the building from the start, what would your reactions be up close to one like the diesel. It's like you can wave at the engineer near the diesel's nose easily while they waite for clear safety. Lovely video, I should do something like this some day soon. = )
Good question. The tracks that cross Route 1 are part of the Newburyport Branch, which was abandoned in late '90s when a train hit a car. The tracks in this video are what's left of the South Reading Branch and Boston and Lowell Railroad. If this train were to keep going past Eastman it would end up connecting with the Newburyport Branch in Wakefield before linking up to the MBTA's Haverhill Line.
I have a railroad track where I live where an average of one freight train will go buy every year very slowly. Its in about the same condition as this one. I've never seen it but a few people told me about it.
My Dad's business, Julian Automotive Parts Co., was located near there. I remember when the B & M train station was located in Peabody Square. Is this track still there? If so, the T should reinstate rail service to Peabody.
Amazing, there can't be more than 2 and a half feet from the train to the corner of that building at the beginning of that video. Imagine you're asleep just inside that wall of that building and this train comes by.
Heck, if that building is a store they could have installed a drive up window for the train crews to order meals.
lol
+E.PLUMBUS UNUM it could be a mcdonalds
no buddy
it would be a dunkin donuts XD
E.PLUMBUS UNUM yup
no
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"Go play in the yard."
"I can't Ma. There's a train back there."
Dammit, I LOL'd.
LOL
Im fucking dying!!! XD
+DroverChicago I grew up right down the street from this place; we used to skate through here all the time. I was lucky enough to see this train many, many times when I lived in Peabody. Great video!
DroverChicago I want to honk the train horn
My brother also live close to the railway and I find it quite cozy to hear the trains come and go ❤
Man when does the train have to look both ways before crossing.
My daughter bought a house built during the Railroad Era in Maryland and remodeled it back to the original. They do have all the necessities and yet, it is 'simply' beautiful. The front door is 20 feet from the tracks.
Could get quite a surprise putting out the garbage!
Keith Bradley I would have them haul away my garbage LOL
You could load it into the train as well. 😏😜
The train hit their dumpster one time & ripped the electrical service off the building.
Candace: "Mom! Phineas and Ferb built an active railroad in the backyard!"
Lol
it's nice of them to provide chairs for railfans even though the line is so lightly utilized
Haha, that's why they're there!
Ha ha :)
And they could order some club sandwiches, too.
lol
I googled mapped Peabody, MA and I saw a lot of tracks that ended at factories. I still haven't located the interchange. I also saw Peabody as a nice city.
It disappears behind 10 Lowell St. Peabody MA. That building it comes out from behind is gone now.
Peabody was an intersection for four railroads that served the industries in the area. As the industries left the rail lines became inactive then the state bought them to covert to rail trails. This is the last active ROW in the city.
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Peabody is a dump. Place is infested with heroin and immigrants
Actually it pulled out from behind 10 Lowell St (the pizza and pub building), and it's still there. They did, however, move the statue/monument in 2016, it's now on the other side of the rails. Maybe that's what threw you off? It got me too.
Looks like a restaurant first thought it was a house until I notice the trays and chairs and I think that is the first time I seen a train so close to a building
Imagine running out the house, late to work and you run smack into the side of this. In fact, forget that, stick your hand out and grab on to the handle. Express commute!
Imagine if you ordered something and it came by train. CSX gon give it to ya.
I was just thinking how awesome it would be in that first 17 seconds if that train came blazing by the house at 40mph.
Reminds me of a Thomas and friends episode where a fan sends a letter to ask the engines to come to his house.
,,, i remember the episode where the engines or one engine comes to Sir Topham Hatt's house. Sawdust gets all over their breakfast, LOL. It's on TH-cam probably
Your thinking of "Thomas comes to breakfast."
Soccer mom
Thomas Gets A Letter Was the Episode
Why build a model train when you can have a REAL train in the corner of your basement.
Your just sitting all the sudden your roof just shakes while your working on a sd70ace ho😅
railfan49 exactly
railfan49 the building the train was next to had a sign that said “Club Sandwiches” XD
Working on a GEVO and a geep decides to shake the house
The jerk in the dark Chevy Tahoe, enters the tracks as the train is approaching and pulls right out in front of the train. It's hard to tell, but it looks like the flagman made The Tahoe backup. Then after the train passes the Tahoe pulls onto the tracks again, where it's obvious traffic is not clear in front of him and sits right on the tracks. Looks like he's trying to be a statistic!
Diesel locomotives 99.999999999% of the time win the train vs. car battle
Correction: 100% of the time!
It looked more like a GMC Yukon.
No, it's Peabody, That makes the driver of the Tahoe (which was actually a GMC) a Masshole.
trucking604 thatsca gmc.not a chevy
Shut the fuck up.
They have the same thing on the Grafton and Upton RR in Grafton, MA. where the train passes extremely close to buildings. Kinda cool I think.
hell yeah i wish i had a train going thru my back yard.
+justis baker Me too! I usually book hotels near train yards/tracks when we travel. My wife hates it LOL!
I had just that when I stayed in Oakland, CA.. Jack London Sq. Amtrak when a block away, train tracks were right outside my window.
Was
My mom has the Acela train going through her backyard ...but a few hundred feet from the house.
The train is restricted to 10 mph here... although it HAS hit things that people have left on the tracks, like trucks and dumpsters, etc. You're right about it being a food joint... it's a pizza place and sub shop... but the train tracks have been there for about a century longer than the building has!
I wish a train ran thru my backyard even once a month!
wesolint I wish you’d learn to spell
no you don't
New Milford RAIL FAN "you would"!
LOL!!! you'd is short for, "you would"
New Milford RAIL FAN idk
when I was growing up in upstate NY east of Rochester there was a single track RR running through the dairy farm and front yard of the farm i lived on. the tracks were about 70-80 ft. from the house. We use to have to wait for trains to get out of the driveway sometimes. Part of the NY Central West Shore line. Well what a thrill for a youngster. The black, grey and white F7's (i would guess) and the bright turquoise green cabooses are tattooed in my brain. In the summer evenings the family would eat dinner outside on the front terrace and if a train would roll through me and my 2 sisters would run down track side to wait for the caboose as the conductor would throw candy...usually Lifesavers...out the window to us. And at night time the trains would shake us out of bed...but that was a sign all is well in the world. Then one summer evening in 1961 i think, a lone diesel pulling a very old steam locomotive stopped at our house. They were pulling that locomotive to the Smithsonian Institute. Must have had some significance but I was too young to know or care. the family got to climb on to both engines for a small "tour". It turns out that that particular 2 engine train was to be the last on that railroad. A few days later some heavy equipment came through and ripped out all the track and ties and in a matter of hours that particular railroad was gone off the face of the earth. I still live here and still find traces of that great part of my life in the form of railroad rail plates and spikes and occasionally a blue green glass insulator from the telephone poles that followed that line. Some of them are dated from the 1880's and I have one from 1830's. God I miss those days...such a simpler happier time.....
wally walton I enjoyed reading your memories that you so lovingly recalled. You certainly made me feel like I was there, thank you!
Nice video. I too wish I was in a back yard with train tracks and watch trains go on by every so often.
I grew up in a house that saw trains come by the back yard, about 20 feet away. About a dozen a day.
Nothing like enjoying a few drinks at the club and passing out backwards on your chair onto the tracks in the early AM.... Waking up to that would change your mind in a heartbeat.
Interesting video. I cant believe how close that locomotive comes to that house. Thank you for sharing. Thumbs up.
We have a remnant of an old NYC branch here that sees maybe one train a week and the crossings are protected by the city police. It serves one lone customer that gets in plastic pellets.
Unused train track have been turned into walk\bike paths where I live. They are awesome!
It's refreshing to watch vids when the videographer obviously has so much information on the line I'm watching. Thanks!
I saw this train yesterday, near what used to be the Eastman Gelatine plant. Was just sitting on the tracks with its light on.
Very true!! The tracks were probably here for almost 100 years before the building was.
Easily one of the most interesting train vids I've watched on YT.
I always thought they were abandoned too as I worked near them on foster st from 2014 to march 2020 and never saw a train. Was walking by them today while waiting to have tires mounted and noticed evidence of a train having been through since last week's snowstorm.
Wow! Looking at Peabody Square in this video vs now is crazy!
Our aunt used to live by a set of train tracks like that, I used to love listening to the train and watching the train go by.
My pleasure, I'm glad you liked it!
I lived just up the road. The track runs kinda behind Foster st. I lived on Mason st.
Great Video, never got a chance to see the train cross the square but I have seen them idling in the spur across the Eastman Gelatine a few times
The chances of you seeing this train are pretty much the same as your chances of getting into Princeton.
Dr. Mike Zahalsky I live within walking distance of there and it goes through twice a week so the chances of seeing it are more like getting a toddler into daycare
I live right down the st and this train comes through Peabody square like twice a week
I grew up in Peabody, brings back great memories. Thanks for the video.
Awesome catch man!!!!! I just love watching industrial trains like this go over unprotected grade crossings. Thanks for sharing!!!!!
I caught two stopped Guilford Rail GP40's. What rare and lovely engines.
We have a similar stretch of track here in Olympia, WA. It runs right down one of our downtown streets. Trains are very rare. I've only heard them from my apartment several blocks away. Never actually seen a train on those tracks.
As a former Peabody resident I love seeing this!
I've always wanted a train in my backyard.
A Thank you from Beziers in the south of France, I loved your video and I love the USA
I've never seen a train that close to a building! I was holding my breath when it started moving through that crossing. It truly seems out of place to run through town as it did.
great video. Who is the dolt in the black Chevrolet Tahoe who just cannot seem to STAY OFF the tracks? Sure the train had passed but you NEVER stop or park on railroad tracks! EVER!
actually a lot of people don't realize it is an active line since there are no signal lights at the intersection and the trains pass maybe once a week.
But, dude, the train was right there, right in the lane.
The train did go past. It's not like he jumped out in front of the train.
where i live, a stone quarry runs a train across a street. it has modern , automatic, lights and crossing gates.
recently, they had to add "do not stop on tracks" signs because construction was causing the traffic to back up ,and people are getting dumber.
It clearly says GMC on the grille.
Holy crap I drive through this Square all the time I never knew these tracks were still active LOL
Thanks for posting! I haven't seen a train go by there in forever! Can't wait to show my son this...he asks all the time where the train is and i also thought they were abandoned
1952. Lexington, Mass. When you walked just past the trashcans, there was the railroad track. The school forbade kids from walking on the track to school. We always did because it was more dangerous than walking along what we called The East-West Highway. Loved the coal engine locomotives.
love seeing Trains running Close-Quarters within cities - - - Great modeling inspiration
I hope this is a rarely used line. I don't see crossing gates or even lights anywhere! Surprised this is the case so close to Boston. I did google map this location, you can find it yourself by searching for Down Town Pizza in Peabody. It is baffling the way this line is moves through the rest of this town in a logical fashion, but right here it crosses two main thoroughfares--on a curve no less. Must have something to do with the way the town grew around the railroad line.
Thank you.Great job..See if there is a steady shot setting on your camera? TY73s
Reminds me of the now long gone (PC abandoned them in 1973) NYC Louisville branch in Westport, Indiana the tracks went right through downtown in between two buildings in a very tight clearance...
Can you imagine sitting on those old chairs and that train come roaring through that alley at 60 MPH?
no, because that would never happen.
people would die.
I have been over those tracks many many time... I always wondered if those tracks were used.
Hello from France !
Yes, nice video. I looked for this track in Google Maps, and I saw that the track is exempt some miles further, on the photos you can see the jucntion for the factory, from where the trains turn back.
At some place, at a railroad crossing, some little wood houses are very close to the track, funny.
Nice town, Peobody.
The local Abilene, Texas, switching company has a lot to learn from you guys using the flagman at the intersections. None of their crossing lights work and they frequently enter the roadway without warning. There have been several near misses and we have been lucky that no one has been hurt so far.
Hey mom ....do you here that noice???
Daniel go to sleep...its just a freight train in our backyard again.
Ohhhhh ok mom. Goodnight
"Noise"
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That's pretty cool man. I live in the Bronx and we have the Metro North line running behind us. Train buffs are always behind our building railfanning. The children get a kick out of it.
Good to hear it is utilized on a more frequent basis...I'd like to visit there someday. Maybe MBTA will be running there too.
Mr. Signal Hill- not too bad with an Apple 4. I could feel the excitement. However, your written description gets five stars brother. SUPERBLY COMPOSED!
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Line is dead now Im pretty sure. I pass by it usually at least once or twice a week. I never knew it was Pan-Am. Always just assumed it was MBTA.
it is still active one a week.
I love the scene in “Brewster’s Millions” where they have to stop the baseball game to let a train go through the outfield.
Great video!! This video is very unique and i wish we had a couple of these Guildford locomotive in our area. They look awesome!! :)
Great place to re-route the California Zephyr
wicked ahsome vid brah, living in new england means all kind of close tracks, this is no exception! thanks for sharing
tony from hartford
Thanks, Tony, I'm glad you liked it. Close tracks are interesting tracks!
The trains always come through Peabody square very slowly… my whole family is from Peabody, it’s the only city square I’ve ever known that has not one but 2 RR crossings through it. They used to go to Eastman Gelatin (Kodak) also in Peabody, but I’m not sure where freights would be going now.
I used to think that, too! It's not every day you see action in Peabody, but there is quite a bit of activity on a fairly regular basis!
seeing a building that close to a railway is fantastic....
These tracks usually see action once or twice a week, all of it local switchers based out of Lawrence.
Welcome to Sandwich Heaven, can I take your order?
Conductor; Yes I'll have a number 1 Club sandwich please with a coke and curly fries. My engineer wants a cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato, oh, and a milkshake. This order's to go.
Okay, Sir, please pull up to the second window.
The tracks appear to be in quite good shape compared to some rarely used/dormant lines. Cool!
Great vid! All I could think of when I saw the engine coming around the corner of the house was: "Look who's coming to dinner!"
Oh well, I LOVE TRAINS! I was just suprised to see a railroad that close to a building.
nice video and great catch of the one engine on the short freight train.
Ever since I was little, I always wanted a busy freight line going right past our house. I still haven't changed my ways.
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No problem. Thanks for the comment! I'm a big fan of these kinds of ROW too. So the ATSF one you're talking about is no longer in service?
What a great way to bring everything to a halt yet remind folk that life goes on for other people too! I know what I mean even if nobody else does…lol 🚈🚂🚂
Thanks! These locations definitely make things a lot more interesting!
it is nice to sit there. With the beast!
I always thought those tracks were abandoned, nice catch.
How cool is that. Awesome video.
i saw some houses in NC that had an active railway going right through the front yard once, the driveways had railroad crossing signs(no lights)
i think i just found new inspiration for my next ho scale modeling effort, thanks so much for sharing
That just seems like a dangerous place to live in general
Yes it does
Wow this is great! I love this video!
Nice video! I can only imagine the look on the drivers faces when they see this train come out of no where and has to go through the crossing lol
I have a lot of buildings on my model railroad and they get pretty close to the tracks. I guess there's a prototype for everything
That train was very tight againist that building.
Jacob Hill given standardized sizes of railcaahs and geometry, the railroad can maak exactly how much room the train needs, and then a maagen of errah of a few inches or so. Fahgive my bahstan accent.
move the building.
Wow look how close it is to that building damn!
Train engineer to coworker: "I told you this pizza place doesn't have a drive-up window!"
@Tcostello105 Thanks! This is actually one of the three switchers based out of Lawrence (I believe this one is LA-2), and it usually hits Peabody like, once a week.
Imagin that it would be a steam engine going through that town and right beside the building from the start, what would your reactions be up close to one like the diesel. It's like you can wave at the engineer near the diesel's nose easily while they waite for clear safety. Lovely video, I should do something like this some day soon. = )
Good question. The tracks that cross Route 1 are part of the Newburyport Branch, which was abandoned in late '90s when a train hit a car. The tracks in this video are what's left of the South Reading Branch and Boston and Lowell Railroad. If this train were to keep going past Eastman it would end up connecting with the Newburyport Branch in Wakefield before linking up to the MBTA's Haverhill Line.
I have a railroad track where I live where an average of one freight train will go buy every year very slowly. Its in about the same condition as this one. I've never seen it but a few people told me about it.
Wow! If they built that building any closer, they'd have to make a tunnel! Great catch, hope that line stays in service!
remember "the blues brothers"?
how often does the train go by?
so often, you wont notice.
My Dad's business, Julian Automotive Parts Co., was located near there. I remember when the B & M train station was located in Peabody Square. Is this track still there? If so, the T should reinstate rail service to Peabody.
Still has marker lights too!
Amazing, there can't be more than 2 and a half feet from the train to the corner of that building at the beginning of that video. Imagine you're asleep just inside that wall of that building and this train comes by.