Unusual Visitor
Another look from down in the pit at this most unusual visitor earlier this week.
File this under things you have to see to believe! Perhaps you have a child that loves their purple MBTA train set on their HO layout but then saw the cool green engine with the wreath and just had to have it....or maybe this is you?! But you couldn't put the green and yellow engine on the T train cause that just makes no sense and would NEVER happen in real life. Until it did that is...and here is living proof.
This was taken just a few hours ago at work as New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad GP38-2 3823 (EMD blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242) sits at the head of an MBTA train set all tripped inspected and ready to go inside BET on track PM1! The NHN geep had been dropped off early in the morning by Pan Am train DOBO and a Keolis crew capped control car 1628 on the 1061 set. While it is fun to imagine this in revenue service the purpose is to test the newly installed ACSES on the 3823 along the Eastern Route mainline.
In 2020 I've come to expect the unexpected and despite only two days left in the year this is just yet another example!
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tuesday December 29, 2020
Unusual Visitor
Another look from down in the pit at this most unusual visitor earlier this week.
File this under things you have to see to believe! Perhaps you have a child that loves their purple MBTA train set on their HO layout but then saw the cool green engine with the wreath and just had to have it....or maybe this is you?! But you couldn't put the green and yellow engine on the T train cause that just makes no sense and would NEVER happen in real life. Until it did that is...and here is living proof.
This was taken just a few hours ago at work as New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad GP38-2 3823 (EMD blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242) sits at the head of an MBTA train set all tripped inspected and ready to go inside BET on track PM1! The NHN geep had been dropped off early in the morning by Pan Am train DOBO and a Keolis crew capped control car 1628 on the 1061 set. While it is fun to imagine this in revenue service the purpose is to test the newly installed ACSES on the 3823 along the Eastern Route mainline.
In 2020 I've come to expect the unexpected and despite only two days left in the year this is just yet another example!
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tuesday December 29, 2020