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Norfolk Southern 11R plods west through North Leominster on a misty night on Earth Day 2023. Leading the way towards Fitchburg and ultimately Binghamton, New York was NS 6952, an EMD SD60E and one of fourteen such units equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over this line. The mist definitely made for some interesting flares on my lens, but I'm happy with how this came out. After shooting this train it was finally time to call it for the day and grab food before heading home.
Norfolk Southern 265 rounds the west leg of Ayer wye as they build their train to head west. Serving as leader on this snowy late-February morning was NS 6971, an EMD SD60E equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA territory between here and Ayer and CPF-335 in Westminster. This would be my first shot of a chase that would take me all the way to the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel, something which had been on my list of things to do for a while up until this point. Right around this time, the 265 crew on duty time was changed to make for a noon-time departure from Ayer, meaning that I could do the whole chase to the tunnel and then some in daylight.
Amtrak P448 heads east on the Berkshire Sub at County Route 28 in Chatham Center, New York on a hot and sunny early-September afternoon in 2023. Leading the way to Boston was AMTK 93, a GE P42DC equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA territory east of Worcester.
CSX M426 approaches the crossing at Still River Depot in Harvard on a harsh but somewhat warm mid-February afternoon in 2023. Leading the way towards Ayer and eventually Maine would be CSXT 467, a GE CW44AC equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA territory. Winter 2022-2023 was mostly snowless in southern New England, meaning that everything was gray and dead from November to mid-April. I was getting pretty sick of it by this point, and the absolutely awful lighting for this shot only added to that.
Norfolk Southern 265 passes underneath the active and disused signal bridges at CPF-FG in Fitchburg on a sunny and roasting-hot early-May Saturday. Leading the way west over District 3 was NS 6958, an EMD SD60E equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA trackage. I had never tried this shot before when chasing a freight west and I'm pretty happy with the end result!
Salima Saa, tête de liste UMP dans 8e circonscription du Nord, a Roubaix et presidente nationale de l'Acse (agence nationale pour la cohésion sociale et l'egalite des chances)..
Photographiee au Crowne Plaza de lille. .
Photo Edouard BRIDE (La Voix du Nord).
Opening of the 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Studies Educators (ACSE 2020).
On June 23rd, 2022, I made my way up to District 3 to see two things: ST LGT with a pair of BNSF GEs and NS 23K with an SD60E leading 2 UP GEs. The first find of the day was the second half of LGT tied down at OX in Fitchburg. On the head end was BNSF 8029, one of many GE ES44C4s on BNSF's roster. Since MBTA uses ACSES PTC, 8029 would not be able to lead the final miles from here to Ardent Mills in Ayer, and would be capped by a Pan Am dash 8 later that week. But while it was by itself along with the other GE behind it, I got some BNSF nose shots in New England.
CSX M427 crawls down the Worcester main towards Still River Depot on a chilly mid-January afternoon in 2022. Serving as the leader on the five-unit lashup was CSXT 465, a GE CW44AC equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA territory.
CSX M427 rounds the corner onto the east leg of Ayer wye on a hot and hazy late-May morning in 2023. Leading the way into the yard with the cut of cars to be left here was CSXT 8872, an EMD SD40-2 equipped with ACSES PTC to lead over MBTA territory. They separated the Ayer cars from the rest of their train in Graniteville and would run lite back east to grab their train afterwards.
ST NA-1 heads west through CPF-297 in Wamesit with a cut of cars bound for Nashua. MEC 501, a GMD GP40-2LW, was the Nashua unit at the time and would lead the consist long hood forward back towards New Hampshire. I don't know where they got these cars since 501 can't go to Lawrence on account of no ACSES PTC, so whatever this operation was will continue to confuse me.
Norfolk Southern’s Geometry Train made a run over Pan Am Southern in mid-August 2021 and I made a quick visit to Ayer to see it. Before reaching MBTA territory, MEC 7594 was added to the head end since it’s equipped with ACSES PTC to run over MBTA territory. I would wind up getting this shot at the Ayer MBTA station, and while it’s not my best framing by a long shot, I’ve got to be content with it.