Fall River State Pier
Here's a scan of an old print from long ago. I don't have access to my old hand written notebooks so I don't know when this was taken but I certainly know where. This is a Conrail local out of Middleboro working the small former New Haven (originally Old Colony) yard near Battleship Cove in Fall River. They are kicking up a little dust after spotting up a pair of mechanical reefers at the State Pier and crossing Water Street.
I don't know what year this was taken but it was before the Conrail split in June 1999. My guess is spring of 99 because the influence of soon to be owner CSXT is apparent. New England was long a bastion for GE products with Conrail assigning B23-7s almost exclusively to their myriad local assignments. But then seemingly overnight they just vanished and we awoke to a world of just geeps....one we still inhabit to this day. It is also clear that the unit behind this 1979 built GP38-2 is a CSXT unit dressed in YN2 paint as given away by the yellow handrails and different shade of blue. Beyond that I know little else about this shot other than that I like it.
Fall River, Massachusetts
~May 1999
Fall River State Pier
Here's a scan of an old print from long ago. I don't have access to my old hand written notebooks so I don't know when this was taken but I certainly know where. This is a Conrail local out of Middleboro working the small former New Haven (originally Old Colony) yard near Battleship Cove in Fall River. They are kicking up a little dust after spotting up a pair of mechanical reefers at the State Pier and crossing Water Street.
I don't know what year this was taken but it was before the Conrail split in June 1999. My guess is spring of 99 because the influence of soon to be owner CSXT is apparent. New England was long a bastion for GE products with Conrail assigning B23-7s almost exclusively to their myriad local assignments. But then seemingly overnight they just vanished and we awoke to a world of just geeps....one we still inhabit to this day. It is also clear that the unit behind this 1979 built GP38-2 is a CSXT unit dressed in YN2 paint as given away by the yellow handrails and different shade of blue. Beyond that I know little else about this shot other than that I like it.
Fall River, Massachusetts
~May 1999