Outbound 079
I don't often shoot commuter trains, but while waiting for something else if one comes by I'll raise my camera for it. Here is outbound Greenbush Line train 079 on the MBTA/Keolis Middleboro Mainlin about to diverge 90 degrees to the east at GREEN interlocking to head toward Greenbush. This view looks down off the Elm Street bridge and the milepost in the distance denotes 10 miles from South Station. At left is the double track Red Line and the Pilgrim Highway / Route 3. The latter was opened in 1959 connecting to the new Southeast Expressway and at the same time the state ended the New Haven's passenger subsidy and all commuter ops on the Old Colony lines ended on June 30, 1959. The former opened in 1980 when the Red Line was extended to Braintree from Quincy Center.
Thirty eight years after the cessation of the New Haven's service the state brought back commuter rail when the lines to Middleboro and Plymouth/Kingston opened for business on November 29, 1997. It would be another decade before the Greenbush line would return (it had to be completely rebuilt account the line had been entirely abandoned and all trackage long removed) but now the sight of fast frequent passenger trains gracing the ancient right of way of the Old Colony Railroad is so common as to be little remarked....even by railfans like me.
But a classic EMD F40PH-2C in good early afternoon light is worth noting for a moment, don't you a agree?
Braintree, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020
Outbound 079
I don't often shoot commuter trains, but while waiting for something else if one comes by I'll raise my camera for it. Here is outbound Greenbush Line train 079 on the MBTA/Keolis Middleboro Mainlin about to diverge 90 degrees to the east at GREEN interlocking to head toward Greenbush. This view looks down off the Elm Street bridge and the milepost in the distance denotes 10 miles from South Station. At left is the double track Red Line and the Pilgrim Highway / Route 3. The latter was opened in 1959 connecting to the new Southeast Expressway and at the same time the state ended the New Haven's passenger subsidy and all commuter ops on the Old Colony lines ended on June 30, 1959. The former opened in 1980 when the Red Line was extended to Braintree from Quincy Center.
Thirty eight years after the cessation of the New Haven's service the state brought back commuter rail when the lines to Middleboro and Plymouth/Kingston opened for business on November 29, 1997. It would be another decade before the Greenbush line would return (it had to be completely rebuilt account the line had been entirely abandoned and all trackage long removed) but now the sight of fast frequent passenger trains gracing the ancient right of way of the Old Colony Railroad is so common as to be little remarked....even by railfans like me.
But a classic EMD F40PH-2C in good early afternoon light is worth noting for a moment, don't you a agree?
Braintree, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020