With the PTC implementation continuing on the Lowell Line, the Boston & Maine searchlight signals are rumored to be retired this weekend. I had been procrastinating shooting here but was able to s... (more)
Pan Am local LA-3 is seen getting some assistance from Billerica Fire after running low on water working the shop lead.
In what looks like a scene out of a post-apocalypse movie, the remains of the Boston & Maine engine repair facility at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica stand battered and weather-beaten after ye... (more)
Pan Am LA-3 is seen switching out cars at the Siegel Egg warehouse in North Billerica, just a stone's throw away fron Iron Horse park and the former Boston & Maine locomotive shops.
Pan Am LA-3 is seen trundling through the former Billerica shop area inside Iron Horse Park about to switch cars at Siegel Egg.
By the early 1970 the Boston & Maine was retiring the GE 44-Tonners that had been used in light switching assignments around the system. Four of them were lined up out of service outside the Bill... (more)
With a GP40-2 and two GP9s up front, Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) rolls past the shop lead at Billerica, MA, on its way to Boston via the MBTA Lowell line.
This RDC was about to undergo a face transplant. After Boston & Maine RDC-1 6117 suffered some sort of misfortune, the B&M's Billerica shop crews repaired it with a fresh cab end salvaged from scr... (more)
It's a weekend, and the Boston & Maine's main repair shop at Billerica, MA, is quiet as F7 4265 awaits work amid the cranes, tools, and parts that filled the big hall. This locomotive was later pr... (more)
Ruins. Another look inside the wreckage of the Boston & Maine's Billerica shop reveals the open hall of what was once the backshop. Hard to believe this was once a good-sized indus... (more)
Post-Apocalyptic? The decaying remains of the Boston & Maine's primary backshop may look like something from a war zone, but in fact the building is just a victim of neglect and the... (more)
Guilford Lowell switcher waiting for a commuter train to pass, before backing out onto the mainline and following the commuter west
