Late Running BODO
Due to purported crew issues the unit sand train from the New Hampshire Northcoast left Dover much later than normal, with CSXT's ex Pan Am train DOBO not arriving in Boston until about 5 AM. This made for a rare opportunity to shoot the NHN power in early morning light as the crew went about their work and got their 21 empties ready to head back north as BODO. They are seen here pulled up on Main 2 of the Eastern Route just West of FX with the head end in Somerville while most of the train is still in the Charlestown section of the City of Boston.
This spot afforded a view of the parade of inbound and outbound trains arriving and departing from the Eastern, Western and New Hampshire Routes. Passing on Main 4 is inbound Keolis/MBTA train 200 from Haverhill with F40PH-3C 1025 shoving on the rear. As for the NHN train it consists of GP38-2s NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244) and FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) bracketing GP18 NHN 1801 (blt. Feb. 1960 as CRIP 1341).
The large blue building immediately behind them is the MBTA's Commuter Rail Mainetenance Facility known to all as BET (Boston Engine Terminal) a legacy name harking back to the great roundhouse and shop built around 1930 and demolished in 1995 to make way for this modern facility which opened in 1998. Beyond that are brand new high rises erected in the last year on long empty land that once was one of more than two dozen Boston and Maine Railroad yards in the vast terminal complex.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday April 12, 2023
Late Running BODO
Due to purported crew issues the unit sand train from the New Hampshire Northcoast left Dover much later than normal, with CSXT's ex Pan Am train DOBO not arriving in Boston until about 5 AM. This made for a rare opportunity to shoot the NHN power in early morning light as the crew went about their work and got their 21 empties ready to head back north as BODO. They are seen here pulled up on Main 2 of the Eastern Route just West of FX with the head end in Somerville while most of the train is still in the Charlestown section of the City of Boston.
This spot afforded a view of the parade of inbound and outbound trains arriving and departing from the Eastern, Western and New Hampshire Routes. Passing on Main 4 is inbound Keolis/MBTA train 200 from Haverhill with F40PH-3C 1025 shoving on the rear. As for the NHN train it consists of GP38-2s NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244) and FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) bracketing GP18 NHN 1801 (blt. Feb. 1960 as CRIP 1341).
The large blue building immediately behind them is the MBTA's Commuter Rail Mainetenance Facility known to all as BET (Boston Engine Terminal) a legacy name harking back to the great roundhouse and shop built around 1930 and demolished in 1995 to make way for this modern facility which opened in 1998. Beyond that are brand new high rises erected in the last year on long empty land that once was one of more than two dozen Boston and Maine Railroad yards in the vast terminal complex.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday April 12, 2023