LA2 On Draw 7
An unusually late CSXT/Pan Am train LA-2 (local freight from Lawrence) that normally comes down to Boston under the cover of darkness surprised me when they showed up right in the midst of the morning rush hour as I was getting off work. The Terminal dispatcher made quick work of them allowing them to come down off tbe New Hampshire Route High Line up to the front ladder and then make their reverse move back east toward Reading Junction and over on to the Eastern Route to clear up in the Coke Works at Everett Junction.
Here are the pair of B40-8s (MEC 5976 and 5958) shoving 22 cara over the hump of Draw 7 bridge crossing the Mystic River at about MP 2.2 on the MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline. All of the new development in the background,at what is now known as Assembly Square, sits in the middle of what was once Boston and Maine Yard 21 that as late as the early 1980s was bustling with cars and rated its own switcher. Less than four decades on and you'd never know it existed....
Everett, Massachusetts
Thursday July 7, 2022
LA2 On Draw 7
An unusually late CSXT/Pan Am train LA-2 (local freight from Lawrence) that normally comes down to Boston under the cover of darkness surprised me when they showed up right in the midst of the morning rush hour as I was getting off work. The Terminal dispatcher made quick work of them allowing them to come down off tbe New Hampshire Route High Line up to the front ladder and then make their reverse move back east toward Reading Junction and over on to the Eastern Route to clear up in the Coke Works at Everett Junction.
Here are the pair of B40-8s (MEC 5976 and 5958) shoving 22 cara over the hump of Draw 7 bridge crossing the Mystic River at about MP 2.2 on the MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline. All of the new development in the background,at what is now known as Assembly Square, sits in the middle of what was once Boston and Maine Yard 21 that as late as the early 1980s was bustling with cars and rated its own switcher. Less than four decades on and you'd never know it existed....
Everett, Massachusetts
Thursday July 7, 2022