Passenger service on the Grafton & Upton ended in 1928, but fifty years later the classic country station at West Upton, MA, was still standing. I believe it was being used as an office by a local... (more)
On a rainy spring morning, the Grafton & Upton's daily freight between Hopedale and North Grafton makes its way through West Upton, MA, behind Alco S4 1001. Unlike many small shortlines at the tim... (more)
The End Of An Alco. Grafton & Upton S4 #212 meets her fate in the railroad's West Upton yard. With the other S4 and remaining GE 44-tonner already cut up, the scrapping of #212 wou... (more)
Black Is The New Red? Despite perceptions by the non-railfan public that a caboose is red, they came in a lot of colors, although the G&U's rolling office is the first one I have se... (more)
Rest In Pieces. This locomotive and I have had an odd relationship. From the time I was old enough to drive by myself, I had been periodically visiting this engine at her former home in Nor... (more)
On a cold and quiet evening, G&U Alco S4 212 sits parked on a siding in the railroad's West Upton yard. Of the railroad's three locomotives which served the line prior to the 2008 management chang... (more)
