In 1913 the Chester and Becket Railroad played its part in the construction of the ill-fated Huckleberry Trolley Line. Construction was proceeding simultaneously on several sections of the line, and a pair of “Dinkies,” light-weight standard gauge construction locomotives, were wanted near the center of the line at “Jacob’s Dream” in West Becket. A crew brought the two locos up to the grade crossing at Turner’s Switch in Becket. (Becket Quarry parking lot). There the construction workers “opened the track” and bent the rails into a temporary turnout to run the engines off onto rail lengths laid on the gravel town road. With one horse on each rail, the crew proceeded to take up the rails behind and spike them down ahead as the little locos inched along the gravel highway. (Bonnie Rigg Hill) In three weeks they got to West Becket, after one run-away down Bonny Rigg hill and a run-in with the state road officials!

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