There were two deaths on the line during the first year of operation. There was a suicide in Weymouth last April. During the summer an Abington girl was killed when she rode her bicycle onto the tracks after a train passed. She didn't realize another train was coming in the opposite direction. Still, he doesn't want motorists and pedestrians to become complacent.
Safety continues to be a top priority.
Ginger Dameron says she could sell tickets to the train. The owner of Summer Street Station, a deli built in a former train station in Kingston Center, says there are four of five visitors a day who come in mistaking the renovated station for a real train station. While they're here, they usually buy something. Dameron and her staff have gotten used to the whistle of the train as it passes on its way through the Kingston Center crossing. They hardly even notice any more, although customers often run to the door to see the train pass by.