22K At AY
I ended 2020 with an SD60 on the CP and for my first train of 2021 it was this trio of SD60Es. This is Norfolk Southern / Pan Am Southern train 22K from Chicago backing in to its final terminal in the Hill Yard in Ayer on the old Boston and Maine Railroad Fitchburg Route mainline, now owned by the MBTA, maintained by Keolis and dispatched by Pan Am.
This is CPF AY on Pan Am's Freight Mainline at Pan Am milepost 315.75 (measured from Mattawamkeag, ME) and milepost 35.75 (measured from Boston North Station on the Keolis/MBTA Fitchburg Line). The train is backing around the east leg of the wye into the yard and in the background can be seen the surviving former B&M interlocking tower dating from 1929.
A trio of rebuilt SD60Es are in charge of the intermodal train and have become the standard power since they are equipped with ACSES for operation over MBTA Routes. Leader 6971 was built as a standard cabbed SD60 in Jan. 1985 as NS 6568.
Ayer, Massachusetts
Friday January 1, 2021
22K At AY
I ended 2020 with an SD60 on the CP and for my first train of 2021 it was this trio of SD60Es. This is Norfolk Southern / Pan Am Southern train 22K from Chicago backing in to its final terminal in the Hill Yard in Ayer on the old Boston and Maine Railroad Fitchburg Route mainline, now owned by the MBTA, maintained by Keolis and dispatched by Pan Am.
This is CPF AY on Pan Am's Freight Mainline at Pan Am milepost 315.75 (measured from Mattawamkeag, ME) and milepost 35.75 (measured from Boston North Station on the Keolis/MBTA Fitchburg Line). The train is backing around the east leg of the wye into the yard and in the background can be seen the surviving former B&M interlocking tower dating from 1929.
A trio of rebuilt SD60Es are in charge of the intermodal train and have become the standard power since they are equipped with ACSES for operation over MBTA Routes. Leader 6971 was built as a standard cabbed SD60 in Jan. 1985 as NS 6568.
Ayer, Massachusetts
Friday January 1, 2021