Never Again
This is something that will assuredly never happen again so despite the gloomy day I'm glad I got the chance to document it and have a little fun with some friends trackside. So one more from this day when half of the OCS duo came to Worcester, but not via home rails.
After being on display for about four hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ it is time to head back to Boston. To the delight of fans PAR1 was placed on the rear behind MBTA 1074 and 3248 with her headlight on dim as a marker for the return trip east over the old Boston and Albany. Having been assembled and air tested they are pulling out of the facility toward the mainline with the cars in CSXT's yard providing a backdrop
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 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009 and now sandwiched in the middle is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
Never Again
This is something that will assuredly never happen again so despite the gloomy day I'm glad I got the chance to document it and have a little fun with some friends trackside. So one more from this day when half of the OCS duo came to Worcester, but not via home rails.
After being on display for about four hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ it is time to head back to Boston. To the delight of fans PAR1 was placed on the rear behind MBTA 1074 and 3248 with her headlight on dim as a marker for the return trip east over the old Boston and Albany. Having been assembled and air tested they are pulling out of the facility toward the mainline with the cars in CSXT's yard providing a backdrop
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 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009 and now sandwiched in the middle is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022