Interesting Consist Discussion for the South Side

Why are two locomotives and a control car needed for the wash train by the way?

A double draft with 1036 on the west end went by at milepost 5 on the Worcester line 20 minutes ago (around noon) heading inbound.

ohalloranchris wrote:Why are two locomotives and a control car needed for the wash train by the way?

The south side does not have a caboose to put on the train so a control car is pretty much the fix. The screamer is only on for HEP since the one leading loco cannot pass 480 through the tank car and wash unit. The 1006 has had traction issues lately so apparently they found another use for it.

Sperry car #125 stopped on track 1 at Framingham. 11/22 9:42AM.

I saw an interesting North-Side like set by the Braintree split today. It had a Rotem cabcar leading with three single level coaches, then another Rotem coach and an F40PH-2C pushing. the set was Bi - Single - Single - Single - Bi - Loco.

The 1011 is currently down South on the wash train.

Sperry car #125 is marooned on a siding in Abington. There are large snow banks in front of and behind the car, indicating that it must have been parked there before all of the storms.

By Birch St and North Ave? That's the only siding I can see in Abington where they could put something out of the way.

Here's that stranded Sperry car, halfway between the Birch St and Plymouth St crossings:

Keolis train#1009 to middleboro has F40PH Screamer #1015 coupled on the rear. 1015s nose is coupled to the cabcar on the rear

Currently on Tr9 at South Station is an HSP leading 1071 and a consist w/ Cab. 1711. It's going out as Train 2753 to Readville, I didn't catch a number on the HSP from my incoming Amtrak train.

Coming home a couple minutes ago I saw what looked like some a set of flat passenger cars with a double decker car (of unknown make/model) parked in Beacon yard hooked up to a CSX loco. The livery looked to be silver? Perhaps Obama came in on this train to eat his pizza at Kendal square?

That sounds like the CSX Safety train that they keep in West Springfield.

thanks. looks like that according to a google image search.

It is the CSX "SWAT" train. Came from West Springfield on a special move on Saturday afternoon.

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Haven't seen any news on what they are doing with it or how long it will be there.