The old passenger railway cars departed Fairhaven via the flatbed trailer of a semi truck.
After 34 years of residing around the old Bob's service station at the intersection of 12th & Harris Avenues the cars were loaded on to awaiting trucks with a huge Sickelsteel Crane. It was quite the site watching all the activity from my condo windows. Many people gathered around the site to watch as the crane hooked up to the cars, lifted them overhead and dropped them down on to the trailers.
This end of an era change in Historic Fairhaven goes right along with all the other changes that have been happening the past few years. To include renovation of 1890 buildings, construction of new mixed used commercial buildings, which increased the residential density in the district core. The future plans for this site is the possible creation of a modern replica of the Historic Fairhaven Hotel.
I was actually leaving the Haggen's parking lot in Fairhaven when they were moving the train through the 12th Street & Old Fairhaven Parkway intersection. It was quite the ordeal heading down the road.
It was an incredible sight! I was down there most of the morning watching the crane lift and maneuver the cars on to the trailers. Quite the feat.