This unit spent a couple of days at West Springfield, reportedly en route to a new home on the Grafton & Upton in eastern Massachusetts.
The crew on the 104 local is slowly making there way out of the spur that serves Bond Plywood in Ferndale after picking up a boxcar.
Beginning life as a GTW GP18, MBTA 904 migrated to Detroit commuter service before winding up in Boston during the MBTA's formative years. With most of her sisters retired and sold, 904 is still ... (more)
GTW GP9R 4619 waits to depart Durand with a local. Good to see classic GTW power on home rails.
A short transfer freight waits to depart the yard southbound, with GP38-2 GTW 5836 in number two position. That locomotive has since received a new paint job.
The early days in the original paint scheme before the Rail America purchase.
This is a GP9R
The first CNW GP9 to enter the Oelwein rebuild program was #1720, it emerged in 11/71 as the CNW 4301 seen here at Wyeville with 88 cars.
All the train on the trestle...almost. CNW's Shoshone local returns from the great westerlands of Wyoming on a (none other than) windy spring day. Not uncommon by this time to see just 1-3 cars.
GTW 4634 and WC 1558 pass the namesake shops at Shops Yard.
One of the few GTW GP9R's works along side with GTW 5812 assembling cars for outbound trains.
