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In November 2015, the City of North Adams completed an agreement to lease land for a temporary passenger platform for the line. Service began in May 2016, departing from North Adams. A $ 2.6 million MassDOT grant funded construction of a permanent platform in downtown Adams and construction of the
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remaining 1 mile (1.6 km) of track. The track work was completed in late 2017, and excursion service began operating from Adams in 2018.
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In 2014, the museum received a $ 200,000 state grant to move its excursion train operations to the Hoosac Valley, operating between
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and North Adams. The Town of Adams spent $ 500,000 renovating a former car wash into a railroad station.
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In 1984 the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum began operating passenger excursions between
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and restored the first 4 miles (6.4 km) south from North Adams.
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right-of-way. In 2016 the museum began tourist train service in
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purchased the northern portion of the Adams Branch from
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Budd RDC
Adams, Massachusetts
Coordinates
42°37′31″N 73°07′01″W / 42.625227°N 73.117057°W / 42.625227; -73.117057
Railway museum
www.berkshiretrains.org
reporting mark
railroad museum
Lenox
Massachusetts
Stockbridge
Housatonic Railroad
North Adams, Massachusetts

Lenox station
Lee
Great Barrington
restored station in Lenox
Adams
MassDOT
Pan Am Railways
Railinc
Search MARKs
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Berkshire Scenic Railway is history"
"Berkshire Scenic Railway gets $ 200K boost for northern spur"
"'Train to nowhere' not so sweet -- just ask the kids"
"Deal made to construct temporary Berkshire Scenic Railway platform"

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