Last month the Massachusetts Department of Transportation opened up the new East Deerfield transload. The project rebuilt long unused sidings in the yard to accommodate truck and train transloading. The following information on the project is from the MassDOT website: “The East Deerfield Rail Yard Intermodal Project includes the construction of new track infrastructure to enable loading and unloading of intermodal containers from trains within the rail yard, and state-of-good-repair improvements to existing track infrastructure. Eight existing yard tracks were upgraded to support the project — four were upgraded by replacing existing rail, ties, and turnouts with new material that permits intermodal loading and unloading, and four were rehabilitated to support the receipt and delivery of railcars to nearby intermodal freight customers and to serve as staging tracks for the new intermodal transfer facility….Additionally, a portion of East Deerfield Yard was repurposed from a material and vehicle storage area to provide truck access for loading and unloading intermodal containers from rail cars. The improvements include minor site grading and compacting of the roadway base using dense graded crushed stone as an alternative to paving. The established route within the intermodal facility will consolidate use of the on-site at-grade crossings and the site entrance along McClelland Farm Road….The railyard improvements were funded through an 80/20 federal-to-state split, with a total project cost of $5.6 million”.

East Deerfield, MA
8/2026

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