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Trains of my Younger Years
Pictures of trains from the Boston area and Florida when I was younger, things that I remember but did not have a good camera to capture.
Photo Album By: Bob Pickering (BP)
 
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Photo ID: 683600

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 ... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1921
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: January 15, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 10, 2019

Views: 3,150
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Photo ID: 683599

An MBTA commuter train behind an F40PH en route from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, accelerates west through East Somerville on a summer afternoon. Today the B&M freight bridge in the background is gone... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1005
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: August, 1983


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 10, 2019

Views: 2,591
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Photo ID: 682801

A summer shower is pouring down as Amtrak train 448, the Boston section of the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, storms through Ashland, MA, with a mix of Heritage and Amfleet equipment behind the usu... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Ashland, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 216
Train ID: #448, Lake Shore Ltd
Photo Date: August, 1986


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 03, 2019

Views: 3,048
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Favorited: 15
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Photo ID: 682293

Sometimes you have to get out and dig! MBTA trolley snowplow 5138 and its crew work to clear the Beacon Street line (now the MBTA C Line) in Brookline, MA, during a February 1969 blizzard that dep... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: trolley snowplow
Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 5138
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 07, 1969


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 29, 2018

Views: 3,579
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Photo ID: 682076

Working west on Boston & Maine rails with train POPY, a trio of Delaware & Hudson GP39-2s swing through North Leominster, MA, on a snowy winter morning. POPY was the Guilford organization's long d... (more)

Railroad: Delaware & Hudson
Locomotive: EMD GP39-2
Location: North Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: DH 7407
Train ID: POPY
Photo Date: January 15, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 27, 2018

Views: 1,988
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Photo ID: 682075

The calendar has just turned to April but there's still snow on the ground in Otter River, MA, as Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) smokes things up on its... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Otter River, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 311
Train ID: MERU
Photo Date: April 01, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 27, 2018

Views: 2,641
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Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 681778

A stretch of subzero weather in January 1984 left Amtrak's trouble-prone SPV-2000 railcars unable to propel themselves, so diesels including veteran RS-3s were drafted to keep things moving. Amtra... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Alco RS-3
Location: Berlin, Connecticut, USA
Locomotive #: 138
Train ID: Springfield shuttle
Photo Date: January 21, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 24, 2018

Views: 7,713
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Photo ID: 680998

Well outside its home territory, an MBTA commuter set poses at White River Junction, VT, after arriving from Boston on a fan trip sponsored by the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts over the B... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH-2
Location: White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1017
Train ID: fan trip
Photo Date: October 05, 1985


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 17, 2018

Views: 2,244
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Photo ID: 680997

On a bright fall day, nearly new MBTA F40PH-2C pushes an inbound Fitchburg Line train through Littleton, MA, on its way to Boston's North Station.

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH-2C
Location: Littleton, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1062
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: October 17, 1987


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 17, 2018

Views: 1,771
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Photo ID: 679746

A single passenger waited on the platform and a late season snow was falling as MBTA F40PH 1014 eased its Boston-Attleboro (MA) train to a stop at suburban Canton Junction. Five years after Penn C... (more)

Railroad: MBTA
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Canton Junction, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1014
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: March, 1981


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 05, 2018

Views: 2,814
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Photo ID: 679548

As the evening rush hour begins, a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station behind an ex-PRR E8. The empty space to the left had accommodated South Station's bag... (more)

Railroad: Penn Central
Locomotive: EMD E8(A)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: PC 4258
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: May, 1971


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 03, 2018

Views: 2,890
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Photo ID: 679547

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

Railroad: Penn Central
Locomotive: EMD E8(A)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: PC 4268
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: May, 1971


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 03, 2018

Views: 4,326
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Photo ID: 679118

The Sunday edition of Conrail train TV-9 usually ran across Massachusetts with extra locomotives to balance power between Boston and Selkirk. Here a six-unit set of six-axle GEs led by C32-8 6616 ... (more)

Railroad: Conrail
Locomotive: GE C32-8 (Dash 8-32C)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: CR 6616
Train ID: TV-9
Photo Date: October, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Nov 29, 2018

Views: 7,921
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Photo ID: 679117

A trio of Conrail C30-7As roll west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany with piggybacker TV-9 out of Boston's Beacon Park Yard. This was once four-track territory.

Railroad: Conrail
Locomotive: GE C30-7A
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: CR 6569
Train ID: TV-9
Photo Date: November, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Nov 29, 2018

Views: 2,393
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Photo ID: 678767

A splash of sunshine found its way through the overhead structures at Boston's North Station to illuminate MBTA FP-10 1107 standing at the bumper after its arrival with a commuter train. The MBTA'... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD FP-10
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1107
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: September, 1986


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Nov 26, 2018

Views: 1,789
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Favorited: 9
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