Nice Boylston Surprise - 1983
Back in my early years of railroad photography cloudy weather never seemed to stop me from going out to see what was moving. In those days before internet, ATCS and scanner radio we would just drive around and check out yards and CTC signals. Such was the case on February 20, 1983 when a southbound was stopped at Boylston, where we assumed it was waiting for a northbound to clear off the Hinckley Sub. A big surprise was leading the train from Northtown - a pair of former GN SDP40s, infrequent visitors to the Twin Ports and certainly unusual as a matched pair on this train. This was photographed at the old original junction switch at Boylston, prior to the major 1988 realignment.
Nice Boylston Surprise - 1983
Back in my early years of railroad photography cloudy weather never seemed to stop me from going out to see what was moving. In those days before internet, ATCS and scanner radio we would just drive around and check out yards and CTC signals. Such was the case on February 20, 1983 when a southbound was stopped at Boylston, where we assumed it was waiting for a northbound to clear off the Hinckley Sub. A big surprise was leading the train from Northtown - a pair of former GN SDP40s, infrequent visitors to the Twin Ports and certainly unusual as a matched pair on this train. This was photographed at the old original junction switch at Boylston, prior to the major 1988 realignment.