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By 1975, the MCER, or as it later became known—the MassCentral. It was formed by three individuals from
Western Massachusetts and started limited operations on a few miles of the Boston & Maine trackage in and around the Ware Yard. After a year of Conrail operations on the State-owned line, the
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