RailPictures.Net Photo: PC 5527 Penn Central Alco RS-3 at Needham, Massachusetts by Tom Nelligan

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» Penn Central (more..)
» Alco RS-3 (more..)

» Unknown
» Needham, Massachusetts, USA (more..)
» August, 1971

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The setting could be the Adirondack branch in upstate New York, but it's the Needham line in suburban Boston, where a former New York Central RS-3 burbles towards Needham Junction with an evening rush hour train out of South Station. Penn Central regularly assigned RS-3s to two of the rush hour trains on the Needham branch for a couple years in the early 1970s.

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