Chapman Rail Photography
Sandy Pond Sunset
Pan Am ED9 (PAS 11R)'s power does track speed past Sandy Pond Road in Ayer, Massachusetts after wyeing the power at AY. This trio of locomotives would run at a track speed of 25 MpH back East to the Willows, where it will pick up it's string of autoracks that were previously being serviced and switched.
This wye move is now required due to the fact that Keolis/MBTA has installed a brand new system of PTC/ACSES on the Fitchburg Line, in which only Norfolk Southern's SD60E rebuilds have installed. Once the power hooked back onto the other end of the slab of racks they switched, Norfolk Southern SD60E 6957 would lead the pack back towards Ayer in compliance with the MBTA's new PTC installation, which has taken place across their entire system. At Ayer, they picked up cars left there by AY-1 earlier that afternoon, to then take that train West to East Deerfield yard.
Sandy Pond Sunset
Pan Am ED9 (PAS 11R)'s power does track speed past Sandy Pond Road in Ayer, Massachusetts after wyeing the power at AY. This trio of locomotives would run at a track speed of 25 MpH back East to the Willows, where it will pick up it's string of autoracks that were previously being serviced and switched.
This wye move is now required due to the fact that Keolis/MBTA has installed a brand new system of PTC/ACSES on the Fitchburg Line, in which only Norfolk Southern's SD60E rebuilds have installed. Once the power hooked back onto the other end of the slab of racks they switched, Norfolk Southern SD60E 6957 would lead the pack back towards Ayer in compliance with the MBTA's new PTC installation, which has taken place across their entire system. At Ayer, they picked up cars left there by AY-1 earlier that afternoon, to then take that train West to East Deerfield yard.