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drvmusic wrote:I was near the tracks in Weston today at work and heard the familiar rumble that told me a CR train was coming. To my surprise, GP9 904 comes rumbling by with a consist of small hopper cars. That made my day as I LOVE Geeps and have never seen that one in motion. It was on the Worcester line.Wouldn't be surprised if it makes another couple of trips in the next week or two, they're dumping ballast on the stretch of track where they're doing tie replacement between Southboro and Grafton.
Anyone know if it's heading back in the other direction later so I can see it go by again?
chrisf wrote:Been a while since this thread was updated.Amtrak was having issues in the TOWER 1 interlocking, they had replaced a puzzle slip switch over the weekend, and was acting up all morning, the Terminal was essentially cut in half. This required at least 4 sets to go out thru the WYE connector, then back into South Station, having locomotive on the Boston end, and control car facing WEST/SOUTH. I had one going to Needham, and so did the Wickford 1:45p train...The 2002 was facing Boston last night on 583/584. 1030, 1025,2002,1060 are the few sets off the top of my head that got reversed 6/30. Also of note, Amtrak was still working on the puzzle switch this morning, 7/1, and Readville DH moves were going down the Corridor to TRANSFER, (508E~~9:10a) then making a reverse move onto the Dorchester Branch to access Readville yard
Tonight, the set with coach 1520 is running with the 1520 on the outbound end, and 1060 as the power, on the inbound side.
MBTA F40PH-2C 1050 wrote:In a way thats good for the 2002 to come in backward.. More people will get to see the new toychrisf wrote:Been a while since this thread was updated.Amtrak was having issues in the TOWER 1 interlocking, they had replaced a puzzle slip switch over the weekend, and was acting up all morning, the Terminal was essentially cut in half. This required at least 4 sets to go out thru the WYE connector, then back into South Station, having locomotive on the Boston end, and control car facing WEST/SOUTH. I had one going to Needham, and so did the Wickford 1:45p train...The 2002 was facing Boston last night on 583/584. 1030, 1025,2002,1060 are the few sets off the top of my head that got reversed 6/30. Also of note, Amtrak was still working on the puzzle switch this morning, 7/1, and Readville DH moves were going down the Corridor to TRANSFER, (508E~~9:10a) then making a reverse move onto the Dorchester Branch to access Readville yard
Tonight, the set with coach 1520 is running with the 1520 on the outbound end, and 1060 as the power, on the inbound side.
ck4049 wrote:The 2001 was also on a reversed set.So is one of the two MP36s,i believe 010. I saw it with a reversed consist today but didn't pull out my camera in time to film it
BandA wrote:Did they pull the engine up to the terminal, or did they make folks walk further?The sets were being pulled into the Terminal, don't want to have the diesels under the bus terminal
8th Notch wrote:Surprised none of you have noticed the consist for the south side wash train!...you mean how there may or may not be a screamer running on the South Side?
