Worcester is New England's inland rail port. Containers go onto rail at the Worcester and Stackbridge ramps, the Quinsigamond and South Worcester yards handle the carloads, and more than half the carriers based here are private fleets. Car haulers are the biggest cargo after general freight, the auto gateway at East Brookfield feeding them.
A Worcester yard holds a day cab draying boxes off the ramp, a car hauler, a dump truck from the Worcester Sand and Stone quarry, a garbage truck, a moving van, a flatbed with lumber, a box truck delivering, and a semi truck with a sleeper that works the lanes east and west.
Southwest Cutoff
The RMV service center at 50 Southwest Cutoff takes the duplicate-title application and the transfer paperwork, and the Commonwealth's fifteen-day wait on a duplicate starts the day it goes in. Lien payoffs and the total-loss title are covered on the Massachusetts page.
Worcester winters are the wear here: frame rails, crossmembers, brake lines and cab corners before anything on the odometer. Shoot those first, cab and engine second, and tell us the route it ran.
Two posted bridges and Vernon Street over I-290
Massachusetts lets a two-axle truck run heavier than most states under the federal table of 80,000 pounds, as the Massachusetts page sets out. Worcester's own inventory is 114 bridges, two posted for load and two below fourteen feet, the lowest at thirteen feet ten where Vernon Street crosses I-290.
Tell us the yard, by the ramp, up on the north side or out toward Quinsigamond, and send photos and the title.