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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: 648038

Against a background of 19th century mill buildings, Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) crosses the Connecticut River from Holyoke into Chicopee, MA, late on a... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP38-2
Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 206
Train ID: CPSP
Photo Date: October, 1983


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Feb 12, 2018

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Photo ID: 647392

In March, 1983, the Boston and Maine rebuilt former Union Pacific GP9 134 into a road slug, numbered it 100, and put it to work between GP40-2’s 300 and 301. Less than two years later the trio l... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Conklin, New York, USA
Locomotive #: BM 301
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 30, 1985


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By: Doug Lilly

Added: Feb 06, 2018

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Photo ID: 647221

Their corridor trips up from New Haven completed, leased Bombardier LRC locomotive 39 and Amtrak F40PH 208 compare profiles at Boston's South Station. The F40s had a long life with Amtrak, the LRC... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Bombardier LRC
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 39
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February, 1982


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Feb 05, 2018

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Photo ID: 646591

One of the MBTA's double-ended PCCs (acquired secondhand from Dallas) glides along South Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on its way from downtown to the Arborway terminal. In old Bos... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: PCC streetcar
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 3329
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 28, 1969


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 31, 2018

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Photo ID: 646326

Passengers line up on the platform of Amtrak's Route 128 station in suburban Westwood, MA, as their Washington-bound train enters behind F40PH 208 while a northbound discharges on the adjacent tra... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Westwood, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 208
Train ID: corridor
Photo Date: August, 1981


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 29, 2018

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Photo ID: 645949

Boston Terminal Tower 1 and ranks of semaphores dating to 1899 glow in the night at Boston's South Station. A major reconstruction of the station and its approaches beginning two years after this ... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: February, 1982


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 26, 2018

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Photo ID: 645749

During the summer of 1983, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad operated with borrowed Bay Colony Railroad Alco switchers, before it had locomotives of its own. Bay Colony S4 1061 with the last... (more)

Railroad: Bay Colony
Locomotive: Alco S4
Location: Bourne, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BCLR 1061
Train ID: excursion
Photo Date: August 19, 1983


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 24, 2018

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Photo ID: 645528

A long string of piggybacks follows the GE trio (U33C/C32-8/C32-8) up front as Conrail train TV-6 rattles the center of Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line. The building in the backgro... (more)

Railroad: Conrail
Locomotive: GE C30-7A
Location: Ashland, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: CR 6551
Train ID: TV-6
Photo Date: August, 1986


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 22, 2018

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Photo ID: 644633

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD FP-10
Location: Canton Junction, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1105
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: July, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 15, 2018

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Photo ID: 644632

An MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local comprised of an FP-10 cab unit and depowered RDC coaches accelerates away from the station stop on Boston & Maine trackage at Ayer, MA, on a summer morning.

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD FP-10
Location: Ayer, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1114
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: August, 1985


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 15, 2018

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Photo ID: 643999

On a winter afternoon, Boston & Maine GP40-2 311 is on the point of a three-unit EMD lashup on northbound train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) as it approaches the B&M's East Deerfield, M... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 311
Train ID: SPPO
Photo Date: January, 1982


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 09, 2018

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Photo ID: 643998

A trio of bright blue GP9s lead Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) past a frozen pond at Westford, MA, on the B&M's Stony Brook Branch.

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Westford, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 1803
Train ID: EDSA
Photo Date: February, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 09, 2018

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Photo ID: 643490

On a cold winter day, Amtrak F40 208 is ready to depart Boston's South Station with a Washington-bound corridor train. A complete reconstruction of the station was imminent, and today high level p... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 208
Train ID: Northeast Corridor
Photo Date: February, 1983


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 05, 2018

Views: 2,691
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Photo ID: 643153

A New England rail tradition for many years was the February snow train excursion over the Boston & Maine between Boston and North Conway, NH, that was sponsored by the Boston chapter of the Railr... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: Budd RDC-2
Location: Mount Whittier, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: BM 6208
Train ID: fan trip
Photo Date: February, 1969


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 02, 2018

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Photo ID: 642896

On a nasty winter day, MBTA F40 1008 and its inbound Eastern Route commuter train cross the B&M Charles River drawbridge and enter Boston's North Station.

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1008
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: February, 1980


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 31, 2017

Views: 1,923
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