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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: 722554

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

Railroad: MBTA
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 7539
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: July 05, 1979


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 13, 2020

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Photo ID: 722553

The quiet of a long summer evening in Hoocksett, NH, is momentarily disturbed by the evening MBTA train between Boston and Concord, NH, over the Boston & Maine. This service ran under a one-year g... (more)

Railroad: MBTA
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Hoocksett, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1009
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: June, 1980


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Jan 13, 2020

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Photo ID: 720465

I don't know whether there was a special group on board or the crew was just feeling festive, but this edition of the Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited saluted the Christmas season as ... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 346
Train ID: 449, Lake Shore Ltd.
Photo Date: December 06, 1981


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 23, 2019

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Photo ID: 719883

Following a February 1978 blizzard that dumped over two feet of snow in the Boston area, the Boston & Maine assigned locomotives to pilot lightweight RDC consists to prevent derailments at ice-pac... (more)

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 1729
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 08, 1978


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 17, 2019

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Photo ID: 719435

The MBTA's first F40PH seemed to be a fitting subject for my one thousandth photo on this site. MBTA 1000 was on its way out of Boston's South Station at rush hour with a string of ex-New Haven co... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1000
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: July 05, 1979


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 12, 2019

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Photo ID: 719434

With the Fort Point Channel drawbridge in the background, a nearly new MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches depart South Station for the suburbs during the evening rush hour. The ... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD FP-10
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: MBTA 1107
Train ID: commuter
Photo Date: July 05, 1979


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 12, 2019

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Photo ID: 719152

Working the South Station switch job, the crew of Amtrak RS3 117 carefully pushes the equipment of an outbound Northeast Corridor train from the Southampton Street yard towards a platform at South... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Alco RS-3
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 117
Train ID: South Station switch
Photo Date: April, 1981


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 09, 2019

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Photo ID: 718925

A couple of U18Bs bracket a U36B/slug set as a crew switches at Mulberry.

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE U18B
Location: Mulberry, Florida, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 1973
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September, 1988


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By: David Harris

Added: Dec 06, 2019

Views: 13,190
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Photo ID: 717988

FEC GP9 670 and GP40 406 have just made a setoff at St. Augustine, Florida in 1971. The pair still had many years of faithful service for FEC ahead. Photo taken by my Father, George R. Stewart. Da... (more)

Railroad: Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Locomotive #: FEC 670
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September, 1971


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By: David Stewart

Added: Nov 27, 2019

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Photo ID: 717288

As the sun drops low, Bay Colony S2 1052, assigned to the line's Plymouth branch, switches cars at Braintree, MA. The veteran Alco still wore the colors of its original owner, Maine's Portland Ter... (more)

Railroad: Bay Colony
Locomotive: Alco S2
Location: Braintree, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BCLR 1052
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August, 1982


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Nov 22, 2019

Views: 2,267
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Photo ID: 716486

A Delaware & Hudson RS11 mixes with a Boston & Maine GP18 and two GP9s on the point of B&M train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) at Ayer, MA. Looks like the snow is a little deeper out west.

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP18
Location: Ayer, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 1755
Train ID: EDSA
Photo Date: December 08, 1984


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Nov 16, 2019

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Photo ID: 715683

Fresh out of the paint shop, a Boston & Maine GP18 waits for an assignment at Lowell, Massachusetts.

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP18
Location: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: BM 1752
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October, 1981


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By: Doug Lilly

Added: Nov 08, 2019

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Photo ID: 715628

The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.

Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Groveton, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: BM 1722
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 27, 1984


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By: Doug Lilly

Added: Nov 07, 2019

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Photo ID: 712944

The rush hour is over, the sun is setting, and this Fitchburg-bound MBTA commuter train has to itself the platforms at Boston's North Station.

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: 1005
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September, 1986


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Oct 14, 2019

Views: 1,674
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Photo ID: 712943

An outbound MBTA commuter train rolls through the Hyde Park section of Boston on the Fairmount line behind an F40. At the time all trains on the MBTA's ex-New Haven lines took this alternate route... (more)

Railroad: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: 1017
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September, 1986


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Oct 14, 2019

Views: 2,351
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