I passed the end of the Minuteman this morning and skated the paved portion of the Bedford Narrow Gauge Rail Trail over to the Great Road. I hadn't been there in years and had completely forgotten that a hundred yards or so of narrow gauge are rusting away alongside the trail. [Update: These rails are a re-creation, not original, and probably weren't there at my previous visit ten years ago.]
Near Loomis Street on the BNGRT
The gauge is well under two feet
On both trails I saw neatly excavated, taped-off rectangular plots. Landscaping? Archaeology? Shallow graves? I don't know.
After months of disruption and more than a week of outright closure, Woburn Street in Lexington was repaved this morning.
From Fletcher Ave. toward the trail crossing on Woburn St.
Today: 13.8 miles. This year: 1459.7 miles.
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I was wondering about those excavated spots too.
The rails at the beginning of Narrow Gauge are a replica, I believe.
If they're a replica, maybe that's why I don't remember them. They look neither new nor antique, so they could have been built in the ten years since I went that way. There's nothing about these rails in the Bedford NGRT Guide published by the Friends of Depot Park in 2001.
OK, definite replica. On the Bedford Depot site I found this one-liner: "See an interpretive replica of the B&B's two-foot-gauge track at the Loomis Street end of the right-of-way." The linked photo shows a child shoveling gravel along newly-built tracks, very different from today's overgrown and weedy scene.
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