The Boston & Albany Railroad paid a percentage of gross receipts, for a total payment of $24,443.74.
[3] Bigda planned to utilize two former passenger locomotives and to install a fuel storage tank.
Although track would be brand new, the trains would operate at Class I speeds - 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) or less - due to multiple unsignalized grade crossings.
The initiative proceeded as far as the appointment of a constable to serve papers on encroaching neighbors.
In May 2018, the town announced that the railroad plans were being abandoned, and that the right-of-way would be converted to a rail trail instead.