Busy Little Nevins
CSXT local L002, the Worcester to Framingham turn, is starting west heading back home on a dark and drizzly fall morning in this view looking off the Winter Street overpass. This job is basically the extension of the old Q436/Q437 road trains which used to run all the way through to and from Selkirk.
22 yr old AC4400CW still in old YN2 paint leads two non ACSES equipped more modern gevo siblings on the Keolis/MBTA Worcester Mainline, the one time Boston and Albany. Normally this train would have run through and departed from the yard at left via CP23, but as this photo illustrates Nevins yard was completely full so they departed directly out of the old New Haven north yard and crossed over on to Main 1 at CP22 in the background.
Of note in this wider view are four more brand new Hyundai/Rotem bi level MBTA passenger cars. These are the 5th thru 8th cars to arrive of a fleet of 83 ordered by the T in 2019 as part of a $278.5 million contract that are being built in South Korea then shipped to the Port of Baltimore where they are put on rails for transport north to the Boston area. The first four arrived in June and are still undergoing setup and acceptance testing at Wareham and Readville.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Wednesday October 5, 2022
Busy Little Nevins
CSXT local L002, the Worcester to Framingham turn, is starting west heading back home on a dark and drizzly fall morning in this view looking off the Winter Street overpass. This job is basically the extension of the old Q436/Q437 road trains which used to run all the way through to and from Selkirk.
22 yr old AC4400CW still in old YN2 paint leads two non ACSES equipped more modern gevo siblings on the Keolis/MBTA Worcester Mainline, the one time Boston and Albany. Normally this train would have run through and departed from the yard at left via CP23, but as this photo illustrates Nevins yard was completely full so they departed directly out of the old New Haven north yard and crossed over on to Main 1 at CP22 in the background.
Of note in this wider view are four more brand new Hyundai/Rotem bi level MBTA passenger cars. These are the 5th thru 8th cars to arrive of a fleet of 83 ordered by the T in 2019 as part of a $278.5 million contract that are being built in South Korea then shipped to the Port of Baltimore where they are put on rails for transport north to the Boston area. The first four arrived in June and are still undergoing setup and acceptance testing at Wareham and Readville.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Wednesday October 5, 2022