North Yard Niceties
After making its regular overnight turn trip to Attleboro, CSXT Framingham based local L005 is back home. After yarding as much of their train as they could in Nevins Yard (ex Boston and Albany) the yard master instructed them to shove the balance here into the ex New Haven North Yard side.
Here the three EMD SD40-2s shove back on the Northbound track while a brace of five GE widecabs wait tied down on the south end of Track 1 hanging back up the ladder of the busy dozen track yard that serves as the hub for all of CSXT's pre Pan Am purchase eastern Massachusetts carload traffic network.
The motive power based here is all captive and varies little thanks to the requirement that they all be equipped with cab signals and ACSES for operation over MBTA property. SD40-2 CSXT 8840 is on home rails here having been blt. Oct. 1978 as CR 6465. Meanwhile AC440CW CSXT 486 was blt. Sep. 2000 and still wears its as delivered YN2 'bright future' livery.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Friday December 2, 2022
North Yard Niceties
After making its regular overnight turn trip to Attleboro, CSXT Framingham based local L005 is back home. After yarding as much of their train as they could in Nevins Yard (ex Boston and Albany) the yard master instructed them to shove the balance here into the ex New Haven North Yard side.
Here the three EMD SD40-2s shove back on the Northbound track while a brace of five GE widecabs wait tied down on the south end of Track 1 hanging back up the ladder of the busy dozen track yard that serves as the hub for all of CSXT's pre Pan Am purchase eastern Massachusetts carload traffic network.
The motive power based here is all captive and varies little thanks to the requirement that they all be equipped with cab signals and ACSES for operation over MBTA property. SD40-2 CSXT 8840 is on home rails here having been blt. Oct. 1978 as CR 6465. Meanwhile AC440CW CSXT 486 was blt. Sep. 2000 and still wears its as delivered YN2 'bright future' livery.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Friday December 2, 2022