Danvers Rail Trail Update

The Danvers Herald reports that development of the Danvers Rail Trail is coming along.  The rails along 4.3 miles of the old Newburyport railroad line in Danvers will be pulled up shortly, according to the Danvers Rail Trail Advisory Committee (featured above).

The committee thanked the Iron Rail Preservation Society, who is paying for the project (it will not cost Danvers taxpayers anything).  The Iron Horse Preservation group has also completed a 3,000-foot trail in Topsfield, which is its second project in Massachusetts; they gives some of the rails to the federal government, which uses them for a barrier to vehicles trying to cross from Mexico. Iron Horse also sells them to other businesses, which use the old iron for other projects.

The rail bed goes from Peabody to Wenham. Other such rail trail advocates in neighboring towns are also hard at work to make their own recreational pathways where railroad trains once roared, so that one day one could walk — or bike ride — all the way from Salisbury to Boston.

Read the entire Danvers Herald article.