Plantation Street Cut
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA light power move with the display equipment for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ MBTA 1074 and 3248 bracket PAR1 seen here the MBTA Worcester mainline (the ex Boston and Albany) as they roll thru the Plantation Street rock cut in some light drizzly gloom. They are on Main 2 in this going away view looking west down off the bridge that spans the three tracks in the deep cut.
PAR1 is a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505 and passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 along with sister unit 6515 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains the pair would become PAR 1 and 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
Leading the odd move is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988 and bringing up the rear is 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
Plantation Street Cut
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA light power move with the display equipment for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ MBTA 1074 and 3248 bracket PAR1 seen here the MBTA Worcester mainline (the ex Boston and Albany) as they roll thru the Plantation Street rock cut in some light drizzly gloom. They are on Main 2 in this going away view looking west down off the bridge that spans the three tracks in the deep cut.
PAR1 is a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505 and passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 along with sister unit 6515 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains the pair would become PAR 1 and 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
Leading the odd move is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988 and bringing up the rear is 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022