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Freightliner Shed 66528 with the 10.08 Lawley Street to Felixstowe North at Melton Mowbray station, July 2018
MBTA/Keolis train 149 from North Station to Newburyport is right on time as it pulls up on Main 1 for its station stop here. This is about MP 18.4 on the former Boston and Maine Eastern Route mainline. Battered GP40MC 1121 (blt. Sep. 1974 by GMDD as a GP40-2LW originally CN 9511 and rebuilt by AMF in 1997) is seen beside the Bradley Lee Gilbert designed depot dating from 1897 that is now a popular restaurant.
Beverly, Massachusetts
Thursday December 16, 2021
Heading for tidewater with woodchip loads and empty paper boxcars, the Toledo Hauler rolls down the median of SW 6th Street in Corvallis, Oregon. This stretch of trackage was originally street running, a legacy of Southern Pacific’s Red Electric interurban service. The brakeman is giving someone a hearty greeting.
A single pressure barge, in the tow of the FRANCIS M. DEVALL, is outbound on the Houston Ship Channel (HSC) and passing Morgan’s Point. The American flag in the bow helps the operator identify the wind (true/relative) as well as identifying the forward edge of the barge which may be difficult to discern due to sight lines.
A Providence bound commuter rail crosses the 1835 Canton Viaduct. Photo taken Canton, MA January 26, 2022
Looking clean and fresh despite its veteran status, Metra F40PH 111 smokes it up a bit with an outbound in golden evening light.
Outbound Keolis/MBTA train 545 outbound from South Station to Worcester is led by rebuilt F40PH-3C 1070 as it slows for its station stop at Framingham on Main 1 at MP 21.4 on the Worcester Main Line. This is the former Boston and Albany Railroad which dates to 1834 and has had continuous passenger service ever since...191 years and counting!
Originally known as South Framingham (because the historic center of the community is about two miles north) the Railroad Romanasque style depot still standing at right was built in 1884-85 and designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and constructed by the Norcross Brothers Company. After being shuttered in the Penn Central era and falling into disrepair the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and restored a decade later. It has been home to assorted restaurants over the years and these days is a Brazilian style steakhouse.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Monday May 12, 2025
As the city lights illuminate the sky from below, a Coney Island bound F Train climbs over the Gowanus Canal.
Brooklyn, NY
A blue heron takes a break from fishing to watch an outbound tanker on Constance Bank. Taken at Clover Point, Victoria, BC, April 2013.
Back in the fall of 2010, a surprisingly clean South Shore Line train pulls in for its outbound stop at 55-56-57th Streets in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. This is the first station stop outbounds and the last for inbounds, outside of the downtown area. Excuse the terrible processing and compression, I'd like to think I've improved at least a little since then.
I rarely photograph trains here despite working a mile away but made an exception because I wanted to photograph 1030. While waiting around I shot 14 trains in 50 min including four different models of locomotive...I suppose it's not that boring after all!
Here's the seventh train I lensed, outbound Keolis/MBTA train 407 for Wachusett has just departed North Station and is crosing the drawbridge over the Charles River on Main 4 behind F40PH-3C 1058.
For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself which was built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.
The two bascule bridges also date from that same year when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. At the time of their construction two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.
All of this is on borrowed time however, as the MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.
Rising above at left can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wednesday September 24, 2025
Outbound passengers, gathered in wait,
For the train's arrival, they stand by the gate.
Anticipation fills the air, time seems to slow,
As they dream of destinations, where they'll soon go.
This is a different crop of a February 1989 image I've previously posted. On a day when the high temperature was about 15F, we chased this Alturas Turn out the Modoc Line. I have thought this shot at Tuber, California best shows how well the SD9 was suited to the SPSF merger scheme. In case you're wondering, this Kodachrome Cadillac was shot on Kodachrome.
I rarely go out and photograph purple window trains (aka MBTA commuter trains) since I spend all night around them. But since I had a good friend visiting from out of state and he wanted to pay a visit to the North Shore to photograph trains along the MBTA's ex Boston and Maine Rockport Branch who was I to say no. Having never visited that area or photographed trains on this line I was happy to join him in what turned out to be a fabulous sunny Sunday.
Our second train of the day was Keolis/MBTA train 5025 headed outbound from North Station on its leisurely 1 hr 22 min 35 mile trip from the capital of the commonwealth to the tip of Cape Ann. Veteran GP40MC 1123 leads the train over the causeway at MP 25.3 on the Gloucester Branch which dates from 1847 when constructed by the Eastern Railroad. They are crossing the double track thru girder bascule drawbridge built by the B&M in 1944 which provides access to Manchester's inner harbor.
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Sunday May 11, 2025
The crew of "Winnebago" 208 get a wave as they approach La Grange Road with an outbound local on BNSF's Chicago Sub "Racetrack" on a grey day.
It's not a secret that Chicago's Tower A2 interlocking is one of the best places to watch trains in the country. Even on a Sunday, I flew the drone up and shot 4 trains in about 6 different compositions. Here's a MDN outbound passing the junction
This spot has quickly become a new morning favorite and I really wanted to shoot Mass Coastal here with all the new infrastructure, but the South Coast dispatcher had them wait at Cotley for over an hour so I amused myself photographing purple window trains.
Sparkling clean MPI HSP46 2035 leads a 6/0 set as outbound train 1909 for Fall River passing through Myricks interlocking at MP NM40.4 as they cross over from Main 1 of the New Bedford Mainline onto Main 5 of the Fall River Secondary.
The track in the foreground with the high mast and New Haven style target is just a short MofW set out track that was once a freight spur serving a now gone Agway.
Check out the caption from the first day of service to learn much more: flic.kr/p/2qTRrp8
Berkley, Massachusetts
Friday March 28, 2025
Metrolink 155 makes its stop at Van Nuys behind a newer MP36. While less interesting than the older F59s, I'll still take one of these over the new F125 garbage any day.
RTA Blue F40s are the exception rather than the norm on Metra these days. Pair one with a decent scene and it ain't a bad grab in 2024. Here we see one leading a UPW line train past the Kedzie Metra station with the classic Fork signal and control tower in the background.
Georgia Centrals almost-daily woodchip train for International Paper in Savannah leaves the IP yard with 2 B32-8s and a GP38 for Meldrim, GA.