What Might Have Been
After shooting I014 with the 911 at Rochdale I thought I could make it to the top of the parking garage before they pulled in. Alas they were the fastest CSXT crew in history and despite making all the lights, by the time I sprinted from the fourth floor to the roof of the parking garage (since the top level was chained off precluding driving all the way up like usual) I literally missed the shot by 30 seconds as I watched the head end disappear behind the garage! It was a (no) photo finish, but at least one other person got it...
Anyway, to get a sense of what might have been here is the well known scene only about 45 min later as regular daily I022 (Syracuse to Worcester premium intermodal) arrives between two run of the mill Gevos and is seen crossing over at CP45 to enter the west end of the yard at the east end of CSXT's Boston Sub mainline. Looking on behind the units is long closed New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when the Boston and Albany built Union Station and reconfigured the trackage in the area in conjunction with tenants New Haven and Boston and Maine whose lines entered from the south and north respectively.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Monday January 10, 2021
What Might Have Been
After shooting I014 with the 911 at Rochdale I thought I could make it to the top of the parking garage before they pulled in. Alas they were the fastest CSXT crew in history and despite making all the lights, by the time I sprinted from the fourth floor to the roof of the parking garage (since the top level was chained off precluding driving all the way up like usual) I literally missed the shot by 30 seconds as I watched the head end disappear behind the garage! It was a (no) photo finish, but at least one other person got it...
Anyway, to get a sense of what might have been here is the well known scene only about 45 min later as regular daily I022 (Syracuse to Worcester premium intermodal) arrives between two run of the mill Gevos and is seen crossing over at CP45 to enter the west end of the yard at the east end of CSXT's Boston Sub mainline. Looking on behind the units is long closed New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when the Boston and Albany built Union Station and reconfigured the trackage in the area in conjunction with tenants New Haven and Boston and Maine whose lines entered from the south and north respectively.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Monday January 10, 2021