RailPictures.Net Photo: MBTA 1921 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) EMD GP9 at Fitchburg, Massachusetts by Tom Nelligan

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» Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) (more..)
» EMD GP9 (more..)

» East Fitchburg yard
» Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA (more..)
» January 15, 1984

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In the early and mid 1980s, the MBTA relied on a lot of secondhand equipment to keep things moving. Former BN/NP GP9 1921 headed up a train of RDC equipment that includes an ex-CP car at the East Cambridge, MA, layup yard on a Saturday morning.

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