B&A stop in Weston Ma?

Of course, the Riverside CR stop was briefly revived after the Green Line flood of 1996, when they experimented with running shuttle trains from Riverside to South Station. In that case they brought the trains down the branch to a temporary platform behind the Green Line station. I've seen a picture of an F40 almost nose to nose with a Type 7.

To answer a couple questions regarding the Boston & Albany years on the Highland Branch... most, but not all, of the current Green Line stations were previously railroad stops. The one that was *not* was Fenway. Running time for an all-stops local from South Station to Riverside was generally around 45-50 minutes, although it varied a bit over the years. NYC F-units never ran on the branch, at least not in regular service; Alco RS3s were the regular passenger power after the end of steam. And although no one asked, at the time rail service ended prior to transit conversion (June 1958), there were seven weekday trains in each direction and no weekend service.

Tom, you mentioned the current Fenway stop was not a stop during the steam ear. How many tracks were on that location at the time? It looks as though there were at least three but possibly four. There is still some visible trackage in the ground adjacent to that Park Plaza building (or whatever it's called) and three bricked up bays that were obviously used for boxcars. Also, was there a depot or any freight customers near where the Highland branch connected to the mainline across from Fenway?

Mike, there was indeed freight activity in that area into the 1970s. For about twenty years after the 1958 sale of the rest of the branch to what was then the MTA, a short section of active freight track ran across the big Red Sox parking lot from what was known in B&A days as Brookline Junction to that big warehouse (formerly the Sears Building complex) that you mention. It wasn't abandoned until Sears moved out, and the track remained in place across the parking lot for a number of years after. As for the exact former track layout at the current Green Line station, I can't help you with that, except to note that the area was rebuilt when the subway portal was dug -- the rail line just continued through there at ground level. BTW, the entire Highland Branch was double track, as it remains today.