Continuing North
Continuing the northbound chase here was the eleventh spot I photographed this Mass Bay special.
Granite State Scenic Railway SW1000 105 leads the Mass Bay RRE rare mileage special along the little used middle portion of the line at about MP 12.3 on the old Boston and Maine Pemigewasset Valley Branch. They are paralleling Route 3, the Daniel Webster Highway as 1500 ft Blake Mountain rises a couple miles to the south.
Behind 105 are three demotored RDCs two of which are ex B&M and right at home here along with a third of Reading heritage. The fourth car is first class parlor car 103, 'Determination' (built 1954 by Pullman for the Canadian National) which looks sharp in fresh new matching paint after wearing blue and yellow Bangor and Aroostook colors for over three decades dating from the days when Iron Road Railways owned the BAR. Bringing up the rear is 1590, an EMD SW1001 blt. Nov. 1973 for the Reading as number 2618 it passed to Conrail and Norfolk Southern before being sold. It was repainted in 2021 from the bright CIT blue paint with white stripes its worn since coming to the Granite State in 2016.
To read the full story of this day and some history of the line check out the caption with the earlier photo at Plymouth station.
Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024
Continuing North
Continuing the northbound chase here was the eleventh spot I photographed this Mass Bay special.
Granite State Scenic Railway SW1000 105 leads the Mass Bay RRE rare mileage special along the little used middle portion of the line at about MP 12.3 on the old Boston and Maine Pemigewasset Valley Branch. They are paralleling Route 3, the Daniel Webster Highway as 1500 ft Blake Mountain rises a couple miles to the south.
Behind 105 are three demotored RDCs two of which are ex B&M and right at home here along with a third of Reading heritage. The fourth car is first class parlor car 103, 'Determination' (built 1954 by Pullman for the Canadian National) which looks sharp in fresh new matching paint after wearing blue and yellow Bangor and Aroostook colors for over three decades dating from the days when Iron Road Railways owned the BAR. Bringing up the rear is 1590, an EMD SW1001 blt. Nov. 1973 for the Reading as number 2618 it passed to Conrail and Norfolk Southern before being sold. It was repainted in 2021 from the bright CIT blue paint with white stripes its worn since coming to the Granite State in 2016.
To read the full story of this day and some history of the line check out the caption with the earlier photo at Plymouth station.
Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024