Thursday, 4:30 PM
An uneventful ride on the Greenbush line
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff
After 10 years of acrimony from Braintree to Scituate, after million-dollar underpasses, wrought iron picket fences and $300,000 tunnels for turtles later removed from the endangered species list, the train that many loved to hate was finally here, like it or not.
The Greenbush commuter line was being tested today.
"I've never seen so many people wave at me and like me," said project manager James Eng, waving back to the crowds from a rear car.
Hundreds lined the route at various spots during the inaugural southbound run, which plodded along at 10 miles per hour and occasionally stopped to take measurement at station platforms.
There were no problems in the test run, unless you count the motocross kids who were skidding around the train's right of way.
