Draft:Mount Hope Branch

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• Comment: I can't access the 2nd source so I'll AGF on it. First source seems fine. Nonetheless the two paragraphs in the History and Route section are unsourced. Also perhaps you can add 1-2 more sources to the article so that notability is demonstrated more clearly. It seems to be getting there, but still not there yet. S5A-0043^Talk 14:52, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

The Mount Hope Branch (also known as the North Dighton Industrial Track) was a short freight railroad branch located in

The track was commissioned and built by the Mount Hope Finishing Company in 1906 to support railroad freight access to their mill complex. The mill was located along the Three Mile River, roughly a mile west of the Taunton River and the Dighton & Somerset mainline. Three years later, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad would service the mill for forty-two years until the Mount Hope Finishing Company closed their Dighton plant and moved operations to Butner, North Carolina, in 1951.^[1][2]

The branch split west of the D&S mainline at a junction near Railroad Avenue before crossing Somerset Avenue and South Street. The line then crossed the Three Mile River before terminating at the Mount Hope Finishing Company site west of Warner Boulevard.^{[citation needed]}

In the present day, most of the railroad infrastructure between Somerset Avenue and Warner Boulevard remains in place, including the roughly 200-foot long (60.9 meter) wooden trestle that crosses the Three Mile River. Most of the rails have since been obscured by foliage, and crossbucks are still extant on South Street. There are no remnants of the branch east of Somerset Ave, as most of the right-of-way has since been redeveloped. The D&S mainline near Railroad Ave is abandoned, and the former junction with the Mount Hope Branch is no longer extant.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

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  Mount Hope Branch bridge in December 2021
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  Abandoned tracks of the Mount Hope Branch crossing Warner Boulevard in North Dighton
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  Abandoned tracks of the Mount Hope Branch west of Warner Boulevard

See also

• Dighton and Somerset Railroad

References