Hump Job Over The River
Not long after POED cleared heading westbound into the yard the hump job pulled west on the Montague Running track above the Connecticut River on to 616 ft long Warren deck truss bridge built by the Boston and Maine in 1918. Once they cleared CPF383 16R would pull up beside them on the main to perform their yard work.
Again, this isn't much of a shot but I'm including it to document the day that had both ups and downs. And no matter what this is a relaxing and peaceful location to just hang out down beside little used McLelland Farm Rd. and seeing three trains cross the bridge was not bad for the 90 min or so I spent here.
The hump crew has the normal slug set of GMTX 5000 & 5001. The former is an EMD MP15AC originally blt. Aug. 1984 as NHB (Port of Montreal) 8403. The slug is even more interesting as it was originally a Baldwin DS44-1000 originally blt. Jul. 1949 as Chicago Great Western 39. CGW successor CNW cut it down and rebuilt it into a slug in Jan. 1974. After serving the CNW for close to a decade it would be rebuilt from the frame up and end up on KCS where it would last more than two decades in yard service before finally joining the GATX lease fleet.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Friday May 14, 2021
Hump Job Over The River
Not long after POED cleared heading westbound into the yard the hump job pulled west on the Montague Running track above the Connecticut River on to 616 ft long Warren deck truss bridge built by the Boston and Maine in 1918. Once they cleared CPF383 16R would pull up beside them on the main to perform their yard work.
Again, this isn't much of a shot but I'm including it to document the day that had both ups and downs. And no matter what this is a relaxing and peaceful location to just hang out down beside little used McLelland Farm Rd. and seeing three trains cross the bridge was not bad for the 90 min or so I spent here.
The hump crew has the normal slug set of GMTX 5000 & 5001. The former is an EMD MP15AC originally blt. Aug. 1984 as NHB (Port of Montreal) 8403. The slug is even more interesting as it was originally a Baldwin DS44-1000 originally blt. Jul. 1949 as Chicago Great Western 39. CGW successor CNW cut it down and rebuilt it into a slug in Jan. 1974. After serving the CNW for close to a decade it would be rebuilt from the frame up and end up on KCS where it would last more than two decades in yard service before finally joining the GATX lease fleet.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Friday May 14, 2021