NOT YOUR ORDINARY BRIDGE traveling into Chester West on Route 20 you drive over the Chester and Becket Railroad, the 5 mile spur built in 1898 to bring granite from the quarries in Becket to the finishing sheds in Chester to now Hilltown Hikers historic Chester Granite and Polishing Works property.  The CBRR joined the Boston and Albany Railroad main line through a box culvert under Route 20 near where Baystate Drive turns off.  The culvert was built in 1930, part of a Route 20 upgrade project and only ONE train ever passed beneath it.  The CBRR was abandoned on January 13, 1931. 

Learn more about this Railroad at the Amherst Railway Hobby Show at the Big E,In January at our booth in the Better Living Center.

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