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Appears to be the New Haven Railroad's Middleboro, MA yard. View is looking NNE from the Route 28 overpass toward the Middleboro station (barely visible in the background in the top center of photo, to the left of the water tank) and toward Boston. Tracks on the far right head to Cape Cod. Tracks in the foreground head toward Taunton, MA.

Nice to be here

I agree with billreidy. I live right up the street from this location. I think I have a picture from the same location. I will try and find it and post if if I can. It would be nice to see the difference.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called freightyards, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

In the UK chains are dangled from gantries a few yards ahead of low bridges (over roads) to alert vans and trucks. The driver hears the chains rattling over the roof of the van (and ruining the paintjob). This is a nice picture.

He's the cheerful looking fellow nearest the camera. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, from 1895 until his death in 1918. He gained the sobriquet "Pitchfork Ben" after threatening from the Senate floor to "...poke old [President] Grover [Cleveland] with a pitchfork...." Prior to his time in the Senate, he had been Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894. During the period after the Civil War, he had been the leader of a paramilitary group called the Red Shirts, which had terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Fairly decent biographical sketch at Wikipedia.

Thanks! We'll add the additional names to the source data and reload the description.

"terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse" So in other words he's a typical Democrat

South Carolina's disgrace