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![]() Massachusetts Central Railroad tracks in Palmer, Massachusetts | |
Overview | |
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Headquarters | South Barre, Massachusetts |
Reporting mark | MCER |
Locale | Massachusetts |
Dates of operation | 1975 (Incorporated 1974)– |
Predecessor | B&M Wheelwright Branch & the PC Ware River Line |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The Massachusetts Central Railroad (reporting mark MCER) is a short line railroad in western Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1975 to provide railroad transportation services on portions of the Boston & Maine Wheelwright Branch in and around their trackage in Bondsville (a village of Palmer) and Ware, and later between Palmer and South Barre on the old right-of-way of the Ware River Railroad.