This is another of those shots I'd always wanted and just got luck this day and stumbled upon it. It seems a bit like honorary street running and just had an incongruous charm about it.
1061 leans into a curve while its K5LA sounds for the Plain St. crossing in Braintree. The Middleboro-bound train has just diverged where the two MBTA Old Colony branch lines split.
After spending all day Sunday spotting flatcars for the ship cranes on the Combi Dock I to load, the Albany Port RR is repositioning the cars on the Albany dock prior to quieting for the day. The ... (more)
When the Fairmount Shuttle was extended to Readville becoming the MBTA Fairmount Line in 1987, the Providence/Stoughton Line discontinued the use of the lower platform on the three track Northeast... (more)
Metra 917 departs passes CP-Lumber with a train bound for Joliet. Leading the way is F59PH 99, one of three such models on Metra. On the left is the Amtrak Y25 yard job, which is spinning an inbou... (more)