Barnstable Beauties
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad hosted their third annual Railfans Day this year, offering the rare opportunity to photograph their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have when new leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 ans Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively) are leading the first of three trips back to the festivities in Hyannis yard from Bourne. Fans are milling about waiting to board as they slow for another stop to pick up passengers here at MP 69.4 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal Railroad operated Cape Mainline. The beautiful terra cotta roofed building at left is the circa 1911 New Haven Railroad West Barnstable station which is now home to the Cape Cod Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society:
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Saturday August 16, 2025
Barnstable Beauties
The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad hosted their third annual Railfans Day this year, offering the rare opportunity to photograph their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have when new leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.
New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 ans Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively) are leading the first of three trips back to the festivities in Hyannis yard from Bourne. Fans are milling about waiting to board as they slow for another stop to pick up passengers here at MP 69.4 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal Railroad operated Cape Mainline. The beautiful terra cotta roofed building at left is the circa 1911 New Haven Railroad West Barnstable station which is now home to the Cape Cod Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society:
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Saturday August 16, 2025