Massachusetts: $21M Berkshire Line upgrade to bolster ailing rail route

By Heather Bellow, The Berkshire Eagle; October 29, 2018

A Berkshires rail line that the state bought for $12 million will soon get nearly twice that value in improvements, including new tracks long overdue for replacement.

Longer steel rails, along with mounds of new wooden ties, lie waiting for crews, next to existing tracks that are nearly a century old and prone to derailments.

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