Riverworks Grab Shot
After shooting this train crossing the draw:
flic.kr/p/2ovSv7a I decided not to wait around as I didn't know where CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 was and hadn't heard anything on the radio. Knowing that they would be long hood forward leading out of Boston I decided to drive back out from the draw and go set up for a broadside. Alas I miscalculated, and before I was even halfway out the access road I noticed the lights at Riverworks station flashing in my rear view mirror and moments later a headlight curled into view. So I hopped out and took this uninspired grab shot as Pan Am blue GP40-2W MEC 516 hustled by on Main 1 of the Keolis/MBTA Eastern Route mainline passing the old granite MP 10 on this former Boston and Maine Route. Despite this being far from a stellar shot it is worth keeping and documenting because soon enough it will be history. Once the Rousselot plant at Peabody is closed there will no longer be any need for a freight train to venture east of Everett Junction rendering views like this impossible.
At right on the Lynn shore is the massive River Works plant of GE Aerospace that employs nearly 2500 and per their web site: has a history that dates back more than 125 years and is recognized as one of the founding sites of the General Electric Company. The site is home to the first U.S. jet engine (1942) and other prominent aviation industry milestones. The Lynn plant is recognized as a U.S. Department of Defense facility that designs, produces, assembles, and tests military and commercial aircraft engines and components.
Lynn, Massachusetts
Tuesday April 25, 2023
Riverworks Grab Shot
After shooting this train crossing the draw:
flic.kr/p/2ovSv7a I decided not to wait around as I didn't know where CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 was and hadn't heard anything on the radio. Knowing that they would be long hood forward leading out of Boston I decided to drive back out from the draw and go set up for a broadside. Alas I miscalculated, and before I was even halfway out the access road I noticed the lights at Riverworks station flashing in my rear view mirror and moments later a headlight curled into view. So I hopped out and took this uninspired grab shot as Pan Am blue GP40-2W MEC 516 hustled by on Main 1 of the Keolis/MBTA Eastern Route mainline passing the old granite MP 10 on this former Boston and Maine Route. Despite this being far from a stellar shot it is worth keeping and documenting because soon enough it will be history. Once the Rousselot plant at Peabody is closed there will no longer be any need for a freight train to venture east of Everett Junction rendering views like this impossible.
At right on the Lynn shore is the massive River Works plant of GE Aerospace that employs nearly 2500 and per their web site: has a history that dates back more than 125 years and is recognized as one of the founding sites of the General Electric Company. The site is home to the first U.S. jet engine (1942) and other prominent aviation industry milestones. The Lynn plant is recognized as a U.S. Department of Defense facility that designs, produces, assembles, and tests military and commercial aircraft engines and components.
Lynn, Massachusetts
Tuesday April 25, 2023