General Motors Plant, Framingham, Mass. brochure

[Brian Austin]

In the late '70s or early '80s my family toured the Framingham, MA GM plant. 

Today the property is home to a vehicle auction company.

 

Edited October 18, 2020 by Brian Austin

[peteski]

Thanks Brian - nice trip down the memory lane.  I live about 20 miles away from Framingham, so I was familiar with this plant.  It used to generate quite a bit of railroad traffic (with many parts being delivered to the plant, and the finished cars being shipped by rail).  Friend of mine is building a model train layout which will feature Framingham. While the entire plant is too large to model, he will likely include part of it to generate traffic on his model railroad, just like it did in the "real" world.

[john sharisky]

I toured there as a senior in high school. They were assembling the newly downsized 1978 Oldsmobile and Buick A-bodies (as this brochure shows).

Later, my (new) ‘83 Chevy Celebrity was assembled there.

John

[Brian Austin]

8 hours ago, peteski said:

Thanks Brian - nice trip down the memory lane.  I live about 20 miles away from Framingham, so I was familiar with this plant.  It used to generate quite a bit of railroad traffic (with many parts being delivered to the plant, and the finished cars being shipped by rail).  Friend of mine is building a model train layout which will feature Framingham. While the entire plant is too large to model, he will likely include part of it to generate traffic on his model railroad, just like it did in the "real" world.

Neat idea for a layout.  Is he replicating the passenger station?  That would make an impressive model.

[peteski]

It is still in the planning stage. Even in N scale, he will have to do some serious selective compression as he plans to model the trackage going all the way to Boston.  He has a kit of the Worcester station - that is also a very impressive structure.

[leafsprings]

Thanks for posting Brian. More interesting reading.  http://bestride.com/news/25-years-ago-gm-closed-framingham-assembly

[Brian Austin]

Very informative article, thanks for posting.